Arte Abierto Tag

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

<Arte Abierto>’s Art and Architecture Derives is a program of routes proposed by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners, to explore a series of architectural spaces and significant artistic interventions in public spaces in Mexico City. The purpose of the derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which renew our view of the legacy of certain architectural and artistic works, both emblematic and forgotten.

The derives are held the last Saturday of each month of 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Free entry. Limited seating.

CONVERSATION WITH

GUSTAVO LIPKAU & XAVIER HIERRO

PLASTIC INTEGRATION OF THE BUILDINGS  OF THE CENTRAL CAMPUS IN CU: ITS MURALS

• Live conversation with Gustavo Lipkau and Xavier Hierro.

• Saturday, April 23, 2022. at 1:00 pm.

• The event will be held at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor in Artz Pedregal.

• Free admission.

A conversation with Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro about the buildings of the central campus of Ciudad Universitaria, in Mexico City,  and its murals.

The Central Campus of the UNAM is an architectural complex in which engineers and artists jointly participated with the intention of merging disciplines such as architecture, painting and sculpture, under what became known as Plastic Integration. In this talk, Gustavo Lipkau and Xavier Hierro will address the processes and searches of this movement and how it is reflected in eight fundamental buildings and murals on the university campus. It will be a conversation where, beyond theory, the architects will share events and anecdotes around the construction of this key space for Mexico City.

Gustavo Lipkau Henríquez (Caracas, 1972) is an architect and urban planner.

He studied Architecture at UNAM and has been a visiting professor at universities both in Mexico and abroad. In 2000 he co-founded Futura Desarrollo Urbano (FDU), and between 2010 and 2012 he founded and coordinated the “Microurbanismo de Casa Vecina” workshops, of the Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México A.C. and “Observatory of the City” in the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. Since 2015 he is part of Luxmart Futura S.A de C.V, a company dedicated to activities in industry, commerce, energy, and sustainability.

Xavier Hierro Ozores (Mexico City, 1973) is a graduate of the UNAM Faculty of Architecture.

He has 14 years of uninterrupted attendance as a student and apprentice teacher. He has dedicated himself to the professional practice of design for more than 25 years, acting as coordinator of multidisciplinary work teams focused on the production of infrastructures for education, health, security and public space. In parallel, he has added experience in the design and manufacture of furniture, production of audiovisual works and installations and, more recently, in large-scale painting.

Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor in ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) Mexico City.

DERIVES OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Of the Wounded Animal and other sculptural events within modern architecture

Live talk with David Miranda about Mathias Goeritz’s urban sculpture projects in Mexico..

< Arte Abierto > continues its program Derives of Art and Architecture with the artist and curator David Miranda.

In 1951 Mathias Goeritz made the sculpture The Wounded Animal. From that moment on, an urban dialogue began between sculptural and architectural production of modernity in Mexico that forms a unique distinctive in Latin America. David Miranda will talk about all the projects of the artist and teacher of German origin.

Live talk about Mathias Goeritz’s urban sculpture projects in Mexico
With David Miranda
Saturday, March 26, 2022
13:00 h
At Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the second floor in Artz Pedregal
Free admission

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David Miranda is a Mexican visual artist and curator.
He has a Master’s Degree in Curatorial Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM and the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ENPEG “La Esmeralda”.
He was coordinator of the Aesthetic Education project in Mexico City, by the Mexican Institute of Art at the Service of Education (IMASE) in collaboration with the Lincoln Center Institute in New York (2003-2005). In 2011 he received the FONCA Young Creators Scholarship.
His artistic work has been shown in various cultural institutions in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Spain and the United States.
Since 2005 he has combined his artistic activity with his work as a curator at the Museo Experimental El Eco. He is a member of the PAE (Art Education Platform) and is currently a professor within the ENPEG, La Esmeralda.

< Arte Abierto > continues with its new public program “Derivas de arte yarquitectura”, 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 drifts 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 Drifts :

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Urban environment, daily life and art: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

March 26: David Miranda / Of the Wounded Animal and other sculptural events within modern architecture

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

<Arte Abierto>’s Art and Architecture Derives is a program of routes proposed by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners, to explore a series of architectural spaces and significant artistic interventions in public spaces in Mexico City. The purpose of the derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which renew our view of the legacy of certain architectural and artistic works, both emblematic and forgotten.

The derives are held the last Saturday of each month of 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Free entry. Limited seating.

CONVERSATION: DAVID MIRANDA

OF THE WOUNDED ANIMAL AND OTHER SCULPTURAL EVENTS
WITHIN MODERN ARCHITECTURE

• Live conversation with David Miranda.

• Saturday, March 26, 2022. at 1:00 pm.

• The event will be held at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor in Artz Pedregal.

• Free admission.

A conversation on urban sculpture projects of Mathias Goeritz in Mexico.

In 1951 Mathias Goeritz made the sculpture Animal herido. From that moment on, an urban dialogue began between sculptural and architectural production of modernity in Mexico that forms a unique distinctive in Latin America. The curator and artist David Miranda will talk about all the projects of the artist and teacher of German origin.


David Miranda has a Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM and the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ENPEG “La Esmeralda”. He was coordinator of the Aesthetic Education project in Mexico City, by the Mexican Institute of Art at the Service of Education (IMASE) in collaboration with the Lincoln Center Institute in New York (2003-2005). In 2011 he received the FONCA Young Creators Scholarship. His artistic work has been shown in various cultural institutions in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Spain and the United States. Since 2005 he has combined his artistic activity with his work as a curator at the El Eco Experimental Museum. He is a member of the PAE (Art Education Platform) and is currently a professor at ENPEG, La Esmeralda.


Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor in ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) Mexico City.

DERIVES OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

< Arte Abierto > begins its new public program “Derives of Art and Architecture”, a series of routes proposed by guest curators, architects, artists and urban planners to explore a series of architectural spaces and artistic interventions that are historically significant for different public spaces in Mexico City .

The objective of the derives 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.

Each meeting will be guided by a professional in the field to address the importance of these places from the oral narrative and with the intention of generating a dialogue with the attending public.

The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 12:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.

Next meetings:

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Urban environment, daily life and art: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

Urban environment, daily life and art

Live talk: La Torre de los Vientos
With guest curator Tania Ragasol
Saturday, February 26, 2022
At 12:00h
In Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the second floor of Artz Pedregal
Free admission.

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No need to register.

Live talk about La Torre de los Vientos by , as an inhabitable sculpture, as an object perched in the urban fabric, as a ghost of the urban landscape and as a witness of the city.

The talk aims to recount the history of La Torre de los Vientos: from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and its cultural program, to the present day.

A story that weaves personal anecdotes with historical data to recount the existence and future of La Torre de los Vientos and its importance in the contemporary art scene of the 90s in Mexico City.

The talk is based on Tania Ragasol’s account of La Torre de los Vientos in #Visor, a podcast recorded on the @convoynetwork platform.

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La Torre de los Vientos (station number 6) was created by the artist and architect Gonzalo Fonseca (Uruguay, 1922 – Italy, 1997) as part of the Friendship Route, a project conceived by Mathias Goeritz with the support of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, with the objective of creating a sculptural corridor with 19 stations (sculptures) made by artists from the five continents as part of the ’68 Cultural Olympics in Mexico. Currently La Torre de los Vientos is a multidisciplinary art laboratory created in 1996 by Luis Javier de la Torre González in collaboration with Gonzalo Fonseca, which has a current program of artistic experimentation projects.

For more information about La Torre de Los Vientos visit La Ruta de la Amistad website.

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Tania Ragasol is an art historian, curator and coordinator of contemporary art projects. She has a career of more than 20 years as a curator, editor and manager, in spaces and institutions such as the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, the Tamayo Museum, inSite_05, the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, Casa Vecina and Zona Maco. She currently hosts two shows on the platform @convoynetwork : #Visor, a podcast in which she shares personal and professional experiences about art in Mexico City during the 90s, and #TaniaRagasolEnConvoy, a live broadcast about music and culture.

In addition, she is responsible for the curatorship and conceptual development of projects at Oficina Particular, a cooperative of contemporary art professionals.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

<Arte Abierto>’s Art and Architecture Derives is a program of routes proposed by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners, to explore a series of architectural spaces and significant artistic interventions in public spaces in Mexico City. The purpose of the derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which renew our view of the legacy of certain architectural and artistic works, both emblematic and forgotten.

The derives are held the last Saturday of each month of 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Free entry. Limited seating.

CONVERSATION: LA TORRE DE LOS VIENTOS

URBAN ENVIRONMENT, EVERYDAY LIFE AND ART

• Live conversation with Tania Ragasol.

• Saturday, February 26, 2022. at 12:00 pm.

• The event will be held at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor in Artz Pedregal.

• Free admission.

The curator and art historian Tania Ragasol will talk in <Arte Abierto> about the history, importance and present of La Torre de los Vientos, an inhabitable sculpture that can also be thought of as an object perched on the urban fabric, a ghost of the urban landscape and a witness of the city.

La Torre de los Vientos was created by the artist and architect Gonzalo Fonseca (Uruguay, 1922 – Italy, 1997) as part of the Friendship Route (Ruta de la Amistad), a project conceived by Mathias Goeritz with the support of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, to create a sculpture corridor with 19 stations (sculptures) by artists from five continents.

Part of this story will be revisited from the voice of Ragasol: from the creation of the project in the framework of the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, to its current cultural program. The talk will be woven with personal anecdotes and historical data that account for the existence and future of La Torre de los Vientos, as well as its importance in the contemporary art scene in Mexico City in the 1990s.

The conversation follows up on the story that the presenter has made of this tower in #Visor, a podcast that she makes for the platform @convoynetwork.


Tania Ragasol is an art historian, curator and coordinator of contemporary art projects. She has a career of more than 20 years as a curator, editor and manager, in spaces and institutions such as the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, the Tamayo Museum, inSite_05, the Museum of Modern Art, Casa Vecina and Zona Maco. She currently hosts two programs on the @convoynetwork platform: #Visor, a podcast in which she shares personal and professional experiences about art in Mexico City during the 90s, and #TaniaRagasolEnConvoy, a live broadcast about music and culture. In addition, she is responsible for the curatorship and conceptual development of projects at Oficina Particular, a cooperative of contemporary art professionals.


Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor in ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) Mexico City.

CONVERSATION

< ARTE ABIERTO > IS PLEASED TO INVITE YOU TO THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN IRMGARD EMMELHAINZ AND SEBASTIEN NOEL

• February 23 , 2022

• MX 17:00 hr / UK 23:00 hr

• The public will be able to access remotely through https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82238362316

As part of <Arte Abierto>’s public program and the activities of our current exhibition No Sound of Water by the Troika collective, we invite you to attend via Zoom the conversation between the researcher and writer Irmgard Emmelhainz and Sebastien Noel from Troika, taking the exhibition as a starting point, they will address the issues present in this project, such as the Anthropocene, and will make different readings and questions (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).

The conversation will be carried out in english through Zoom. Irmgard Emmelhainz will stream live from No Sound of Water at <Arte Abierto>.


Irmgard Emmelhainz is a researcher and writer. Author, among other books, of Alotropias en la trinchera evanescente: estética y geopolítica en la era de la guerra total (2012), La tiranía del sentido común: la reconversión neoliberal de México (2016), El cielo está incompleto: cuaderno de viaje en Palestina (2017) y Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking (2019). She has participated in seminars, courses and conferences at the University of Salamanca, The Americas Society New York, the District University of Bogotá, KASK. Art School in Ghent, Harvard School of Design, the Jumex Museum, SOMA and the Sharjah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates.
Irmgard’s photo by @LakeVerea is part of the project Artists in Presidents by Constance Hockaday, 2021


Troika’s No Sound of Water exhibition will be open to the public from November 12 to May 15, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal in Mexico City..

ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.

NO SOUND OF WATER

11.12.2021 – 05.15.2022

ESPACIO ABIERTO

TROIKA. NO SOUND OF WATER

11.12.2021 – 05.15.2022

No Sound of Water is a large-format, immersive installation that takes the viewer into an isolated, salt-filled reality. Being inside, you can feel an atmosphere that transports you to a place that could exist in the future. With this installation that simulates a fictional ecosystem, Troika seeks to reflect on the future of the Earth and its transformation into an inhospitable place due to human activity.

For more than two decades, Troika art collective, formed in 2003 by Eva Rucki (Germany, 1976), Conny Freyer (Germany, 1976), and Sebastian Noel (France, 1977), has sought to challenge our perception of the world and its eventual destruction. For the exhibition ‘No Sound of Water’, they present two works that together form a hostile and desolate landscape that, although it could be thought of as part of a fictitious ecosystem, could become a reality due to the effect of various destructive human actions. Far from enunciating an ecological discourse or moral, the exhibition focuses on the problems caused by technological, capitalist and industrial advances and the impact they have to the point of causing a new geological era (the Anthropocene) and the eventual decomposition of the Earth .

No Sound of Water forms part of their ongoing project Untertage. Meaning ‘below the earth’, or literally, ‘under the day’, Untertage takes shape as an elaborate ecosystemic fiction: its protagonist, salt, is devised as the hero of an aeonian drama of world domination.

The No Sound of Water (2021) installation consists of an industrial processing machine that refers to extractive technologies. Through an upper channel, the structure works like a cascade of salt in constant movement, as if it were an infinite hourglass, to the point of becoming uncontrollable: the salt spills through the room, accumulates in the crevices of the floor or even in the folds of the visitors’ clothes. With salt as the central element, the piece proposes an alternative reading in which this mineral is not only an element of human and natural extinction but, is also responsible for creating an era based on non-organic intelligence and synthetic biology. The very title of the piece alludes to the total absence of a key and organic element such as water.

On the opposite side, the Terminal Beach (2020) video takes place in the middle of a desolate and impoverished territory where the only thing that can be seen is the last tree on the face of the earth and a robotic arm that constantly hits the trunk of the tree with an ax. The harshness of the atmosphere is reinforced by an acoustic background made up of the sounds of lightning, solar winds and geomagnetic storms, captured as radio waves by the British Antarctic Survey. The metaphor of the video is compelling: we are destroying the world that sustains us and every advance of technology, capitalism and industry is also a step towards extinction.

< Arte Abierto > presents Troika, with the exhibition No Sound of Water which will be on display and open to the public at Espacio Arte Abierto located on the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal from November 12, 2021 to May 15, 2022 from Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m.

TROIKA: NO SOUND OF WATER

< ARTE ABIERTO > PRESENTS TROIKA’S NO SOUND OF WATER

No Sound of Water is an immersive, large-format installation that takes the visitor into an isolated, salt-filled reality. Being inside, you can feel an atmosphere that transports you to a place that could exist in the future.

• Through an installation that simulates a fictitious ecosystem, the collective seeks to reflect on the future of the Earth and its transformation into an inhospitable place as a result of human activity.

• The exhibition will be open from November 12, 2021 to May 15, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto located in Artz Pedregal.

<Arte Abierto> presents Troika’s work  through two installations that are exhibited for the first time in Mexico: No Sound of Water (2021), commissioned by the Arte Abierto Foundation, and Terminal Beach (2020).

For more than two decades, the Troika contemporary art collective, formed in 2003 by Eva Rucki (Germany, 1976), Conny Freyer (Germany, 1976) and Sebastian Noel (France, 1977), has sought to challenge our perception of the world and its eventual destruction. For the No Sound of Water exhibition, they present two artworks that together form a hostile and desolate landscape that, although it could be thought of as part of a fictitious ecosystem, could become reality as a result of various destructive human actions. Far from stating an ecological discourse or moral, the exhibition focuses on the problems caused by technological, capitalist and industrial advances and the impact they have to such a degree that they cause a new geological era (the Anthropocene) and the eventual decomposition of the Earth. .

No Sound of Water forms part of Troika’s ongoing project Untertage. Meaning “below the earth”, or literally, “under the day”, Untertage takes shape as an elaborate ecosystemic fiction: its protagonist, salt, is devised as the hero of an aeonian drama of world domination. The crystal takes centre stage as an agent of cultural evolution, the critical component for the tools without which human civilization could not have developed as we know it.

Troika’s No Sound of Water is open from November 12, 2021 to May 15, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto located on the 2nd floor  of  ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.

Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal in Mexico City ARTZ Pedregal, Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.

CONVERSATION

CONVERSATION: IRMGARD EMMELHAINZ AND SEBASTIEN NOEL FROM TROIKA COLLECTIVE

DESCRIPTION

Arte Abierto invites our visitors to the conversation between Irmgard Emmelhainz and Sebastien Noel from Troika.

  • Wednesday, February 23, 2022
  • MX 17:00 hr. / UK 23:00 hr.
  • This event is for everyone through Zoom.
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82238362316 (this link will only be active on the specified date).
  • Limited to 500 atendees.
  • The conversation will be held in English.
  • This event is free admission, no pre-registration is required.

CONVERSATION: IRMGARD EMMELHAINZ AND SEBASTIEN NOEL FROM TROIKA

Arte Abierto begins its 2022 Educational Mediation and Communication Program with a Zoom event: A conversation between the researcher and writer Irmgard Emmelhainz and Sebastien Noel from Troika, taking the exhibition No Sound of Water as a starting point, they will address the current issues in this project, like the Anthropocene, and they will make different readings and questions (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).

The conversation will take place in English through Zoom.

Irmgard Emmelhainz will broadcast live from No Sound of Water at Arte Abierto.

Irmgard Emmelhainz is a researcher and writer. Author, among other books, of Alotropias en la trinchera evanescente: estética y geopolítica en la era de la guerra total (2012), La tiranía del sentido común: la reconversión neoliberal de México (2016), El cielo está incompleto: cuaderno de viaje en Palestina (2017) and Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking (2019). She has participated in seminars, courses and conferences at the University of Salamanca, The Americas Society New York, the District University of Bogotá, KASK. Art School in Ghent, Harvard School of Design, the Jumex Museum, SOMA and the Sharjah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates.

Irmgard’s photograph was taken by @LakeVerea for Constance Hockaday‘s Artists in Presidents project, 2021.

No Sound of Water exhibition by the Troika collective will be open to the public from November 12 to May 15, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal in Mexico City.

Free admission.

ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.

AMBULANTE

AMBULANTE

Ambulante goes to places that have limited access to screenings and education in documentary filmmaking, in a bid to build a participative, critical and informed audience, and to open new channels of expression and reflection in Mexico and in other countries.

Every year, for two months, Ambulante organizes an international documentary film festival that visits different states in Mexico. With an international exhibition of over one hundred films, approximately one hundred guests and more than one hundred and fifty venues, Ambulante promotes documentary cinema throughout Mexico. The tour seeks to widen the traditional exhibition circuits in the country, beyond the commercial film theaters so as to reach different groups.

As of 2019, Ambulante includes < Arte Abierto > as one of its venues in Mexico City. In May, < Arte Abierto > had an open-air screening of four of Ambulante’s documentary films at Artz Pedregal.