14 Aug BALAM BARTOLOMÉ – ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES 🗓 🗺
Visions of the fallen Altepetl: A story of Tlatelolco through art
Balam Bartolomé
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Visions of the fallen Altepetl: A story of Tlatelolco through art
Conversation with Balam Bartolomé
- Saturday, August 31, 2024
- 13:00h
- At Arte Abierto | 2nd floor Artz Pedregal
- Free admission
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No registration required.
Tlatelolco is possibly one of the best-known modern architectural projects in Mexico City, not only for its design but for its historical relevance throughout different periods: the pre-Hispanic era, its colonial past and today. It is a site that has gained particular relevance within citizen memory.
This Derive is a review of some artistic projects carried out by the artist Balam Bartolomé in the Tlatelolco area, works that refer equally to public space, as well as its gardens and buildings, from the Mesoamerican era to the modern dystopia. The projects and works make visible the historical layers that is Tlatelolco, and how the ancient island makes the past coexist with the present in its perimeter, by drawing a map and a route for the national future.
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Balam Bartolomé (Ocosingo, Chiapas)
He is a visual artist from UNAM. His work seeks the relationship between contemporary cultures and their past, based on the study of matter and its history. Co-director of the Bienal Tlatelolca. Beneficiary of The The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Jumex Foundation, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, the Artistic Residencies Program, Young Creators and the National System of Art Creators. He has exhibited in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. She has been an artist in residence at Flora Ars+Natura (Colombia), Casa Wabi (Mexico), Arte ERA (Uruguay), Sculpture Space (USA), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (USA), International Studio & Curatorial Program (USA) and Nordic Kunstnarsenter (Norway). His solo exhibitions include Mexímoron at the Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones and Revés at the Museo Carrillo Gil. His group exhibitions include: Poli/Gráfica in Puerto Rico (USA), 1st BIENALSUR (Argentina), 1st Bristol Biennial (England) and 15th Tallinn Triennial (Estonia).
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Arte Abierto continues with its new public program Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura (Art & Architecture Derives), which seeks to renew our gaze on the architectural legacy of Mexico City. From a series of talks focused on rescuing the parallel stories of emblematic architectural projects and public spaces that have witnessed the variable intersection between art and architecture. In this first stage, the program deals mainly with modern architecture, based on a series of talks given by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners.
With this program, ways of returning to architecture part of its public, experiential, collective character and close to those of us who inhabit the city are tested, recognizing in it its condition as a living archive. From these talks, circumstances, contexts and anecdotes are revealed that have been part of his sensitive memory and that complement his material memory, a relationship that often escapes documentary narratives and academic accounts.
The objective of the drifts is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which allow us to renew our gaze on the legacy of certain emblematic architectural and artistic works, as well as those that have been forgotten.
The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 1:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.
Arte Abierto Derives :
February 26: Tania Ragasol / Entorno urbano, cotidianidad y arte: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca
March 26 : David Miranda / Del Animal Herido y otros eventos escultóricos dentro de la arquitectura moderna
April 23: Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro / Integración plástica de los edificios del campus central de CU: sus murales
May 28: Marisol Argüelles / La casa-estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Del espacio doméstico a la dimensión de lo público
June 25: Luis Javier de la Torre/ La Ruta de la Amistad MÉXICO68… más allá de 1968
July 30: Aldo Solano/ Architecture for playing in 20th Century Mexico City.
August 27: Christian del Castillo/ Tracing the modern in the architecture of the Historic Center of Mexico City.
September 24: Juan José Kochen/ The Ideal of the Multifamily Apartment cComplex.
October 29: Tania Candiani/ Quantum Prelude. Sound activation by Tania Candiani.
March 25: Ana Garduño/ Cultural Geographies: The invention of museum circuits in 20th century Mexico City.
May 27: Rebeca Barquera/ The Plastic Integration Movement México: More than murals on buildings.
June 17: Julián Arroyo Cetto/ Max Cetto in the beginning of El Pedregal.
July 29: Peter Kriegel/ The eco-aesthetics of El Pedregal and constructive botany in the megacity of Mexico.
August 26: Arturo Rivera García y Roberto Bustamante Castrejón/ Jardines del Pedregal Legacy: Memory and Identity.
September 30: Tonatiuh Martínez/ The garden as an extension of nature.
October 21: Lorena Botello/ Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity.
March 23: Alejandro Ochoa Vega y Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar/ Cinemas in Mexico in the 20th Century: Distant Spaces in Memory.
April 20: Rodrigo Torres Ramos / Pictorial Functionalism: The proposal for plastic integration of Mario Pani and Carlos Mérida.
June 22: María Bustamante Harfush / Public work and collective housing by Abraham Zabludovsky.
July 27: Veka Duncan / El Art Déco en México. La nacionalización de la modernidad
August 31: Balam Bartolomé / Visiones del Altépetl caído: Un relato de Tlatelolco desde el arte
