11 Oct JOSÉ IGNACIO LANZAGORTA – ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES 🗓 🗺
The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa
José Ignacio Lanzagorta
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The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa
Conversation with José Ignacio Lanzagorta
- Saturday, Octobre 19, 2024
- 13:00h
- At Arte Abierto | 2nd floor ARTZ
- Free admission
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No registration required.
Mexico City’s Zona Rosa is, above all, an imaginary.That is, on a diffuse perimeter of Colonia Juárez, a series of emotions, ideas, experiences and anxieties are projected. Perhaps, this cloud of meanings began to take form in the 1920s, but it was in the 1960s when it became self-aware. A group of artists, intellectuals, journalists and more reflected on what they saw, did, prophesied and sentenced there. They even gave it the name: Zona Rosa. And this imaginary managed to expand and transcend the following generations.
The Zona Rosa is a space for recreation, transgressions, cosmopolitan life and nostalgia; it is a territory that feels contradictory since its christening: “neither red nor white, but pink, precisely pink.” In our next Derive we will analyze those 1960s and that endearing space that was both decadent and avant-garde.
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José Ignacio Lanzagorta
He has a PhD in Social Sciences from El Colegio de México. His main research topic is the urban cultural history of Mexico City and he teaches different history subjects at ITAM, the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana and Centro programs. He has also been a tourist guide, consultant for cultural institutions, columnist and editor of La Brújula, a blog by Nexos magazine, dedicated to city and urban planning issues. Recently he joined the Public Communication of History team at UNAM’s Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas.
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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.
October 19: José Ignacio Lanzagorta / The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa.
