Workshop

A thousand ways to observe a landscape

Visual distortion workshop with Valentina Guerrero

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2025

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12:00

Arte Abierto Pedregal

This visual distortion workshop with Valentina Guerrero invites you to explore the multiple ways in which the same landscape can be observed and represented.

This workshop invites you to explore the multiple ways in which a single landscape can be observed and represented. Through the creation of optical artifacts, each participant will experience how perception is transformed by the filters and tools used.

Through this workshop, Valentina Guerrero seeks to stimulate creativity and curiosity, inviting us to question and expand our way of seeing the environment through play and artistic experimentation.

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Ugo Rondinone

long last happy

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The natural world has held a place of great importance for my artistic practice across several decades. During the AIDS crisis in 1989 and after my partner Manfred Welser died of AIDS-related illness, I turned away from grief and found in nature a spiritual roadmap for solace, regeneration, and inspiration. In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and profane, the mystical and the mundane, vibrate against one another.

The exhibition at Arte Abierto is built upon the principles of three celestial forces from the natural world: the sun, the moon, and the rainbow.

the sun and the moon (2022), are formed with delicate circles fashioned from cast-bronze tree branches, one gilded and the other silver leaved. The twin sculptures are both over sixteen feet tall. Installed parallel to one another, the sun and the moon are aligned along an east-west axis of the Arte Abierto gallery, resembling portals or apertures.

Like the cycle of day and night, these two archetypes represent contradictory, codependent, and complementary values. We can think of the sun and the moon as our metaphorical eyes. When the two principles marry, visions become binocular; that is; two visionary bodies of being integrate into one mysterious whole. Based on each one’s unique vision, the sun and the moon bring in different information that contributes to the vision guiding this exhibition and our own wild life.

These two sculptures are accompanied by two interactive artworks: your age and my age and the age of the sun (2013–ongoing) and your age and my age and the age of the moon (2020–ongoing). The visitors will find, behind a magic door, two rooms filled with thousands of images of the sun and the moon painted by children from all over Mexico. When I visited the space of Arte Abierto, I determined that public engagement would be one of the key aspects of the exhibition.

Acknowledging the Foundation’s interest in developing country-wide networks, I asked that my project should be far-reaching. Assisted by Arte Abiertos’s Public Program department, I engaged 1,600 children from diverse backgrounds, including children with physical and developmental disabilities, and others from a range of socio-economic realities. Each child was invited to create a drawing for the installation with the promise that there would be no curatorial intervention and every sun and moon drawing produced would be presented.

Outside the exhibition space, on the rooftop, stands LONG LAST HAPPY (2020), a ten-meter-long neon, whose rainbow-striped letters spell out a poetic statement addressed to passers-by. This message of eternal bliss is timeless and unites people over millennia and continents. A rainbow is a bridge that unifies everything with everyone.

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23.FEB.2022

MX 17:00 hr. / UK 23:00 hr.

Dirigido a todo público por medio de la plataforma Zoom

Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).

Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.

Troika

No Sound of Water, 2021

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Componentes mecánicos de diseño personalizado, transportador de procesamiento de polvo, motores, controles

6,5 m (l) x 2 m (w) x 4 m (h)