The Friendship Route, designed by Mathias Goertiz with the support of Arq. Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, is the largest sculptural corridor in the world. In its 17 km length, there are 19 stations (sculptures) built in concrete that were made by artists from five continents. In this way, modern art took to the streets as a path of geometries and colors. At some point, it was completely abandoned for 25 years during which it was affected by rapid urban growth. Since 1994, the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C., has been dedicated to saving the Route, with the fundamental idea of a thorough restoration that considers not only the sculptures themselves, but also their environment.
This guided tour of the Experimental Scriptures Project will be dedicated to exploring two key sculptures of the Friendship Route in El Pedregal: SCULPTURE 13. “Articulated Wall” by Herbert Bayer, Austria, and SCULPTURE 7. “Man of Peace”, by Constantino Nivola, Italy. We will investigate the layers of time gathered at the site, from the potential of the surrounding ecosystem to the current recovery of spaces that open the door to the return of nature. Taking bodily perception as a starting point, we will delve into the places to test the possibilities of experimental writing and create a collective text that will be integrated into the public space. During the tour, we will also have the company of Luis Javier de la Torre, president of the Ruta de la Amistad A.C. Board of Trustees
He is currently president of the Ruta de la Amistad Board A.C. He has dedicated himself to the field of management and communication, carrying out public relations projects in the advertising field and fund management in the cultural field. He has a graphic design studio that offers communication alternatives to projects with an artistic and ecological approach.
In 1992 he began his research on the project The Route of Friendship, and in 1994 he created, together with Arq. Javier Ramírez Campuzano, the Ruta de la Amistad Board A.C., an institution dedicated to rescuing, conserving and disseminating the cultural legacy derived from the Olympic Games in Mexico. In 1996, in collaboration with Gonzalo Fonseca, he opened the Tower of the Winds to host independent artistic projects. At the same time, he creates and directs the De-Construction project and carries out urban ecological recovery initiatives, such as the restoration of rock fields.
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It is an independent artistic and pedagogical curatorship collective, formed in 2020, in Mexico City, by curators, writers, educators and artists Cristina Torres and Christian Fajardo. Her practice takes as starting points the crossroads between contemporary art, critical mediation and experimental writing, to research, exhibit and promote the proposals and imagination of women artists, educators and writers, non-binary people and the LGBT+ community who expand their fields of action through experimentation. In October 2022, they inaugurated a project space to present a curatorial program of exhibitions, workshops and talks in the historic Romita neighborhood of Mexico City, taking as its headquarters the space that for decades housed a printing company's workshop.
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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.
