To start the program Parallel landscapes, the first visit will be a tour of the Anahuacalli Ecological Space, which is one of the treasures that the Museum houses. In this one there are almost 20,000 m2 of endemic vegetation, several water wells, and a sea of volcanic rock from the eruption of the Xitle volcano. This tour helps to understand how the original architecture, designed by Diego Rivera, combines landscape with functionalist architecture and aspects of pre-Hispanic cosmogony; while the architectural extension acts as a contemporary reinterpretation of existing buildings and dialogues with the volcanic environment in a game with rugged topography.
After the tour of the Anahuacalli Ecological Space, Plant Writings will share We live in a plant world that we inhabit, an activity to reflect on the blurred limits of the notion of interior-exterior, and environment-contour, to which architecture has adapted us. To this end, a collective drawing will be created on the windows and mirrors of the Anahuacalli workshop, taking into account the landscapes that are reflected and intertwined there to play with the boundaries of the environments that surround us and that make up the Museum in relation to the plant world.
Anahuacalli (from Nahuatl “house surrounded by water”) is a project designed by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera between 1942-1957 and was inaugurated in 1964 in order to protect his vast collection of pre-Columbian pieces.
As part of his quest to create a “City of the Arts”, Diego Rivera designed Anahuacalli as a great stage for the development of diverse artistic expressions such as theater, dance, painting and music in an atmosphere whose architecture represented the search for the essence of the Mexican through its rich pre-Columbian past, and which at the same time integrates with the artistic, intellectual and educational events of contemporaneity. It is a museum that allows a dialogue between pre-Hispanic and contemporary aesthetics.
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Plant Writings is a permanently open, collaborative and plural research for literary and artistic creation based on plant observation from our human being. Based on activities, reflections and collaborative processes, it seeks to decentralize reason as a unique place to generate scriptures, and to find new centers to investigate new meeting points for traditional non-sensitive thinking.
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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.
