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Contemporary Art Tag

03 Oct MÚLTIPLE 🗓 🗺

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MÚLTIPLE

OCT+NOV.2024

Múltiple Program CutOut Track 03 Facto Teatro Trazo GuggenSITO

MÚLTIPLE

Múltiple is a space for sharing. Here you can talk, contemplate, ask questions, explore or just hang out; come alone or accompanied, with friends or family, with children, young people or adults.

Múltiple is An Arte Abierto program that seeks to generate connections, exchanges and collaborations with projects that explore different possibilities of approaching art from various disciplines.

In October and November, Múltiple will bring together four projects to experiment with digital art processes, dance, public art and theater, using our exhibition hall simultaneously to transform it into an open forum for activities and a space for interaction between audiences, projects and artists.

Our goal is to spontaneously share and connect with art through devices, presentations, workshops and activities that reflect the personality, processes, themes and particular searches of each of our guests:

CUTOUT TRACK 03 – Digital Arts
THEATER FACTO – Theater
TRAZO – Contemporary dance
GUGGENSITO– Public Art and Social Architecture

All Múltiple activities are free and for all audiences.

Múltiple en Arte Abierto (cartel)

Lanzamiento del libro y cierre de 'Cositas', un proyecto de Mario García Torres. Programa Editorial - Arte Abierto.

07 Aug ‘COSITAS’ BOOK RELEASE AND CLOSING OF EXHIBITION 🗓 🗺

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Lanzamiento del libro Cositas y clausura

The launch of the book Cositas is August 10th. Mario García Torres will be attending.
Cositas exhibition by Mario García Torres last day will be August 11, 2024.
Composed of 6 works designed for the Arte Abierto Cositas is García Torres’ first solo exhibition outside of conventional art spaces.

Mexico City, August 6, 2024.- Regarding the end of Cositas, Arte Abierto and Mario García Torres announce the publication which emerges from the exhibition, with a get-together that moves away from conventional book presentations. General public is invited this August 10th starting at 1:00 pm to visit Cositas before its closing, which is on Sunday, August 11th.

The book will be on sale starting August 6, 2024. There will be a discount on the purchase of the book during the closing week of Cositas.

Cositas by Mario García Torres is an exhibition that links together different moments in history, as well as different images, characters, musical references and ways of perceiving and reading the signals of the world around us. In its rooms, the music that resonates in the installations are key, traveling throughout the space to intersect between the corridors.

SONIDOS A LA SINCRONICIDAD. Performance sonoro. SITES. Programa Público. Arte Abierto.

15 Jul SOUNDS TO SYNCHRONICITY – SITES 🗓 🗺

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SOUNDS TO SYNCHRONICITY

Audio Performance

SITES

In Sounds to Synchronicity, SITES will create a special live sound atmosphere forCositas, based on sound data, musical references and electromagnetic waves that inhabit the exhibition halls. During this performance, the audio from the exhibition will remain silent while SITES tunes and remixes the different sound elements of the rooms, coming from different periods and contexts, allowing them to be contained together in a one-hour performance.

Cositas by Mario García Torres is an exhibition that brings together different moments in history, as well as different images, characters, musical references and ways of perceiving and reading the signals of the world around us. In its rooms, the music that resonates throughout the facilities is key and travels throughout the space to crisscross between the hallways.

SOUNDS TO SYNCHRONICITY
Audio performance
SITES

AUG.SAT.3.2024
17:00 hrs.
Free admission
Arte Abierto | Piso 2

SITES (Monterrey, 1994)
SITES seeks to generate ‘electroclimates’ through sound, installation, and performance. Immersed in technological spiritual syncretism, her projects operate as atmospheres inhabiting the hertzian space: an invisible and timeless architecture where electromagnetic waves, human experience, and auras coexist. Through her nomadic and animistic practice, she initiates temporary environments for contemplation. Sites has produced works across Monterrey, N.L., Mexico City, Chiapas, and Los Angeles over the past 10 years. She has showcased her work at venues such as Museo Anahuacalli, Kurimanzutto, Museo MARCO, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, PEANA Project Room, Torre de los Vientos, Salón Acme No.11, and Museo de la Ciudad in Querétaro, entre otros. She has also participated in poetry readings in Mexico City and Los Angeles. Currently, she is working on two new releases that will be available on streaming platforms, alongside her existing catalog.

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02 May CROSS-SECTIONAL LANDSCAPES – CINTHYA GARCÍA LEYVA 🗓 🗺

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DISASSEMBLE THE TEXTS

Cross-sectional Journeys of Cositas with Cinthya García Leyva

Is there such a thing as a still, static exhibition?

During this tour with the researcher and cultural manager Cinthya García Leyva, the room texts, the ambient sounds and the music behind the pieces of the Cositas exhibition will be thought of as artifacts and waste that can be rearranged to find internal connections within the rooms.

Seeking to do practical exercises that link the text with the sound, and the visual with the verbal, they will put themselves at the center of looking and listening: the cards, the subtitles, the voices, the lights, the noises and the residues that emerge. of the objects and installations that make up the exhibition, to take a verbivocovisual tour and explore the exhibition together.

The Cross-sectional Journeys are visits to the Arte Abierto exhibitions with guests from various areas beyond art, to expand the themes and points of reference from other perspectives, perspectives, languages and disciplines.

CROSS-SECTIONAL JOURNEYS
DISASSEMBLE THE TEXTS
Cross-sectional Journeys visits of Cositas with Cinthya García Leyva

MAY.THU.9.2024
19:00 hrs.
Free admission
Arte Abierto | Piso 2

CINTHYA GARCÍA LEYVA
She is a researcher and cultural manager. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary and intermedial practices. She is a teacher in Comparative Literature from UNAM. She has performed as a lecturer, workshop leader and curator in different countries. In 2018 she was part of the curatorial team of the exhibition Modos de Oír (LAA–Ex Teresa Arte Actual). She was general co-coordinator of the PoéticaSonora MX project in 2016 and 2017. She collaborated until 2019 as a co-founding member and responsible for planning and content for the Art, Science and Technologies Program (ACT – UNAM/Secretaría de Cultura) and the same year she coordinated the Cátedra Max Aub-Transdisciplina in Art and Technology. Since 2017 she has hosted the program Islas Resonantes for Radio UNAM and since 2020 she has directed the Casa del Lago UNAM in Mexico City.

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'Cositas', un proyecto de Mario García Torres en Arte Abierto: 'La razón de ser de esta pieza aparecerá lentamente en la medida en que lo permitas' (Fuk1ng Amaz1ng), s/f Impresión sobre mosaicos de cerámica

13 Jan COSITAS 🗓 🗺

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MARIO GARCÍA TORRES

COSITAS ENE.2024 – JUL.2024

Cositas Bio

COSITAS

Cositas is a conceptual and audiovisual experience experience that takes references from popular culture to question our interpretations of reality.

“I wouldn’t want to say too much. I trust that the materialization of the ideas put forth in these exhibition rooms has the potential to be connected to the most fundamental questions about our lives and their everyday natures. At the center of them lies the one that is related to our interpretation of reality. Which interpretation is the one that is true? The one we’ve been told or the one we build with our thoughts? Small Things is the passage of a certain number of experiences that at one point in the past were only small things; ideas in my mind which held the promise of, in a near future, coming into existence.”

Mario García Torres

Cositas takes its name from a phrase that became popular on open television during the 90s to generate expectations around a future event, and which has currently gained great popularity on social networks without losing its original spirit: “se vienen cositas” (things are coming). Based on this idea, García Torres presents 5 artworks that take as reference a world-renowned comic character – which this year becomes a public domain image -, the song of a popular rock band from the 80s, the aesthetics of the photocopier as a pictorial practice, and memes and videos that today form part of our collective imagination due to their viral circulation on social networks.

With this project, the artist plays with the idea of audiovisual experiences intended for mass audiences, taking into account the particular context in which Arte Abierto finds itself. In this way, Cositas invites us to question the dynamics of consumption today, our role as spectators and co-creators of meaning, and the coincidences that exist between images and everyday life: How is it that a child’s fall can be as relevant as a historical fact? How does a famous comic character allow us to remember so many stories? How can a meme be recreated so many times, becoming increasingly viral for different generations and social spheres? How do these images impact and change language? Or, more importantly, who creates the images? Who defines the concept or who gives them meaning?

Thus, through a game marked by intuition, suspicion, mystery and humor, Cositas addresses the relationships that exist between reality and the perception of our daily lives, the collective imagination and individual memory, as well as the absence and presence of our thoughts.

Works in the exhibition

Yo lo había ponido aquí (I Had Put It Here), s/f
Synthetic material and electrical mechanism

Cayendo juntos en el tiempo (Falling Together in Time), s/f
Video, 15 min

La razón de ser de esta pieza aparecerá lentamente en la medida en que lo permitas (Fuk1ng Amaz1ng), s/f
Printing on ceramic mosaics

El puente de Edgar (You Should Check Out an Old YouTube Video Titled “Edgar Se Cae”), s/f
Fiberglass, resins, and wax

No hay razón para tener miedo (There Is No Reason to Be Afraid), s/f
Video, audio, 4 min

He decidido honrar cada una de las veces en que me leíste y decidiste no reaccionar convirtiéndolas en una linda obra de arte (I Have Decided to Honor Each Time You Read Me and Decided Not to React by Turning Them Into a Beautiful Work of Art), s/f
Offset printing on paper on linen

Visit Cositas by Mario García Torres from Tuesday to Sunday from 12 to 7 pm at Arte Abierto located on the 2nd Artz Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Col. Jardines del Pedregal, CP. 01900 Mexico City).

Cositas. Cartel de la exposición de Mario García Torres en Arte Abierto.

Arte Abierto. Programa Público. N4V1D4D 01. Alejandro Ponce. Árbol destumescente (Caída), 2023.

28 Nov N4V1D4D 01 🗓 🗺

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N4V1D4D 01

Este 2023 iniciamos N4V1D4D, un nuevo programa de Arte Abierto, en el que cada diciembre comisionamos la creación de una obra a un artista para decodificar y jugar con el folklore de la Navidad, las celebraciones del solsticio de invierno y sus códigos.

N4V1D4D busca provocar múltiples reinterpretaciones lúdicas, formales o conceptuales sobre las tradiciones, ironías, anacronismos e imaginarios de la época navideña y sus simbolismos. En esta primera edición, presentamos Árbol destumescente (Caída), de Alejandro Ponce.

Árbol destumescente (Caída), 2023

Alejandro Ponce

Uno de los orígenes de la tradición del árbol de Navidad como lo conocemos se le atribuye a la celebración pagana de las fiestas de Yule, llevadas a cabo por los antiguos pueblos germánicos para festejar la entrada del solsticio de invierno y al dios Odín. Como en muchas otras culturas antiguas, se le atribuía a la verticalidad de este árbol —originalmente de roble y no de pino— una fuerza eréctil, mágica y vital.

Así como un monolito vertical representa a nivel simbólico y ritualístico la vitalidad y lo trascendental, de forma contraria, un monolito horizontal o en reposo representa una tumba o la decadencia.

A partir de un juego entre lo vertical y lo horizontal, y todos los conceptos que estas dos posiciones engloban, Árbol destumescente (Caída) es un pequeño momento antes de una tragedia, la caída de un árbol navideño hacia la horizontalidad desde un edificio.

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01.DIC.2023 – 07.ENE.2024
Entrada libre
Jardín Arte Abierto | Piso 2 Artz Pedregal

ALEJANDRO PONCE (Ciudad de México, 1987)
Artista interdisciplinario que trabaja desde medios como la escultura, el arte sonoro, la instalación, el performance, el dibujo y la pintura. Entre sus campos de interés se encuentran el análisis de la memoria profunda, la hipnosis como herramienta de producción artística, el lenguaje del inconsciente, la psicoterapia y el enigma.

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Colección Fundación Arte Abierto. Daniel Buren. The Fountain of Live Colors for Mexico, 2017. Artz Pedregal.

28 Nov SENSORY ROUTE 🗓 🗺

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SENSORY ROUTE

Recorrido por las obras de la Colección Fundación Arte Abierto

Sensory Route is a journey so that people of any age, from children to adults, can approach contemporary art from everyday life and the body, through exercises of observation, interaction and attentive exploration. The intention is to learn about some of the formulas of contemporary art from the works of the Arte Abierto Foundation Collection that are located in the outdoor spaces of ARTZ Pedregal.

Using a sensory map as a guide and the senses of our body, we will explore and reflect on the creation mechanisms of some of the artists that are part of our collection.

Join the tour every Saturday in December at 4:00 pm.

Artworks from the Arte Abierto Foundation Collection at ARTZ Pedregal:

Daniel Buren, The Fountain of Live Colors for Mexico, 2017.
Ai Weiwei, Forever, 2013.
Tania Candiani, Kiosko sonoro, 2018.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Corazonadas remotas, 2019.
Erick Meyenberg, Things We Do for Love, 2022.
Jose Dávila, Joint Effort, 2019.

SAT.DEC.02 | 4:00 pm
SAT.DEC.09 | 4:00 pm
SAT.DEC.16 | 4:00 pm
SAT.DEC.23 | 4:00 pm
SAT.DEC.30 | 4:00 pm

Free admission | For all ages (kids and families welcomed).
Meeting point: In front of the Joint Effort sculpture by Jose Dávila (PB, ARTZ Pedregal, between the Louis Vuitton and Hermès stores).

ArteAbierto. Un libro es... vol.3, Programa editorial

24 Nov UN LIBRO ES… vol.3 🗓 🗺

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UN LIBRO ES…

UN LIBRO ES… AN ENCOUNTER.

With a selection of independent publishers and projects who have explored and played with book formats + Activities for children.

Our gathering and editorial sale, Un libro es… (A book is…) by Arte Abierto, reaches its third edition with a selection of publishers, bookstores and projects focused on the art of the book, with whom we will meet in our garden to talk, celebrate and spread the power of written and visual stories.

In addition, we will have a special selection of books and literature for girls and boys, as well as workshops with Estudio Nómade and a storyteller by the Navegui Bookstore for the young readers.

SAT.DEC.09.2023
14:00 – 19:30 h
Free admission
Arte Abierto Garden | 2º floor – Artz Pedregal

PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS AND PROJECTS

Arte Abierto

Fundación Arte Abierto own seal and editorial line which seeks to reflect on contemporary art practices, based on publications that arise from its own exhibition projects. Through editorial exercises that try to expand the writing of art and put it in dialogue with other disciplines, as well as to think of the book as a space of creation and knowledge, their books delve into the artistic and conceptual proposals of the exhibitions commissioned and are presented specifically for Arte Abierto’s space.

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Assouline

Founded in Paris in 1994 by Prosper and Martine Assouline, Assouline is the first luxury brand on culture. It began with the desire to create a new, contemporary style of book, using the couple’s experienced eye for visually rich stories and compelling narratives.

@assouline

Buen Trabajo

Design and fashion.

@buen.trabajo

Cafeleería

Read and laugh at Cafeleería.

Cafeleería is a cultural center, bookstore and cafeteria in the Mayor’s Office of Coyoacán, dedicated to the sale, dissemination and activation of unique, original and different books, printed matter and editorial projects from those of large bookstores.

@cafeleeria

Estudio Nómade

This project emerges during the pandemic as a catalyst for children in confinement. Estudio Nómade proposes to stimulate imagination, creativity and exchange of ideas, through play, speculation and art. They combine visual arts, cinema, theater, literature, illustration and editorial design in order to achieve a novel and playful space, where participants can discover other ways of creating and put it into everyday practice.

@estudio___nomade

Librería Navegui

Children’s bookstore, illustrated books, stories, album books, graphic pieces for boys and girls, puppets and much more. More than selling books, they share readings.

@librerianavegui

Ediciones Hungría

Ediciones Hungría is a small independent publisher that has been publishing since 2011 in Mexico City. His projects are a creative and original exploration that plays with book formats and traditional reading.

edicioneshungria.com/

Miau Ediciones

Independent editorial project focused on feminist publications. Working mainly with female and non-binary and dissident artists, writers, illustrators, editors and creatives. It includes several genres such as theory, politics and social situation, graphics, photography, artist books, among others. “We like to use publications as instruments of dialogue and reflection while collectivizing our editorial practice.”

@miauediciones

GLACIAR. Libros helados

Yogurt ice cream and independent publications in the San Rafael neighborhood.

@libroshelados

Fulgencio Pimentel

An independent publisher, originally from Spain and focused on the high-quality edition of fiction, graphic novels, poetry, art books and illustrated books, for all ages. Their policy is to be faithful to artistic principles.

fulgenciopimentel.com/

MONOMÁNTICO

Notebook publishing house created by Juan José Martín, visual artist and editorial designer, and Hipatia Palacios, artist jeweler and graphic designer. Its products are designed from sustainability, ecology, art and love for Mexico City, as well as the culture of our country. They have two lines: the first is “Unique Notebooks”, made from pages of books, atlases and encyclopedias that we rescue and reuse to make our covers, in this way each notebook is unique; the second is “CDdfMX, notebooks for lovers of Mexico City” made in silkscreen, in runs of 250 copies with detailed attention to the materials used.

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MUAC

It is the editorial line of UNAM’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, which publishes the memory and record of the investigations developed for each exhibition project presented by the museum, as well as its critical and historiographical area. Their Folios collection are catalogs with key material and original texts on artists, artistic movements or artistic periods.

muac.unam.mx/

Piedra Ediciones

Piedra Ediciones is a series of publications that arise from conversation and processes that conceive the book as a space for experimentation for artistic projects, considering the book as an ideal space for collaboration and exchange. Each title becomes a multiple and simultaneous piece that makes new readings possible.

Piedra Ediciones is a project by Alfonso Santiago.

@piedraediciones

Join us and spend time together between books.

ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN

EDITORIAL WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN

With Estudio Nómade

1. Inventing invisibility.

Have you ever wanted to be invisible? In this workshop, participants explore the effect of invisibility. They will observe what happens in their drawings with the help of glasses, selecting what they want to be visible or invisible.

15:00 – 16:00 h

Children from 5 to 11 years old | Free admission until space is filled

2. Is there anyone there?

Participants create a narrative with the help of magazine clippings, drawings, colors and special ink, in such a way that they become a stimulus to create and imagine a story where some of the characters are ghosts.

17:00 – 18:00 h

Children from 5 to 11 years old | Free admission until space is filled

STORYTELLING FOR CHILDREN

With Jacinto and Chala from Librería Navegui

SESSION 1 | 14:00 – 15:00 h

SESSION 2 | 16:00 – 17:00 h

For children of all ages | Free admission

Un libro es… the perfect way to close 2023.

Un libro es... Programa editorial de Arte Abierto

EL RETRATO Y SUS ALREDEDORES. Taller de fotografía y dibujo para jóvenes con Yvonne Venegas. Foto cortesía Yvonne Venegas. Programa Público. Arte Abierto.

14 Nov THE PORTRAIT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS 🗓 🗺

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THE PORTRAIT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

Photo and drawing workshop for youth with Yvonne Venegas

+ drawing session with Álvaro Verduzco

The renowned photographer Yvonne Venegas will teach a 4-session workshop that aim playing with the relationship between photography and drawing to explore the borders between portrait, advertising and their surroundings.

Seeking in drawing a way to observe the images that surround us, each session will be a combination of drawing exercises and photo practices with natural and artificial light. We will review portrait photography and iconic advertising campaigns, as well as walks and field explorations around Arte Abierto led by the artist, whose work explores the different uses, notions and accidents of portrait photography, from its social and intimate function, to the ambiguity that arises between its planned and unplanned gestures.

The objective of the workshop is to provide each participant with tools to experiment with how vast the portrait genre is and offer a broader thought about what the relationships are like between advertising and the images that surround us.

As part of this workshop, we will also have the participation of artist Álvaro Verduzco for a special drawing session.

THE PORTRAIT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
Photography and drawing workshop for youth with Yvonne Venegas

+ drawing session with Álvaro Verduzco

FROM THE 27 THE 30.NOV.2023
16:00 – 18:30 hrs.
For young people between 15 – 20 years old
Pre-registration here | Enrollment limited to 20 participants
Recovery fee $500 pesos
Arte Abierto | Artz Pedregal

Workshop duration: 4 days

SESSION 1 – MON.27.NOV ––– 4:00-6:30 pm
SESSION 2 – TUE.28.NOV ––– 4:00-6:30 pm
SESSION 3 – WED.29.NOV ––– 4:00-6:30 pm
SESSION 4 – THU.30.NOV ––– 4:00-6:30 pm

*No prior experience is necessary. The idea is to work with your cell phone camera or whatever you have. If you have a professional camera, you can also bring it.

YVONNE VENEGAS (Long Beach, California, 1970)
Photographer and artist, she grew up in Tijuana and currently lives and works in Mexico City. Her work explores the different uses, notions and accidents of photography, from its social and intimate function, to the ambiguity that arises between its planned and unplanned gestures. She has also explored the essential function of portraiture as a photographic genre and the relationships between who looks and who is looked at. She is a graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York and has a Master’s degree from the University of California San Diego. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States and Spain, among other countries. She has been recognized with the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Magnum Expression Photography Award (awarded by Magnum Photos), and has been a beneficiary of the FONCA National Creators System and the Jumex Scholarship. She has several books published such as Unique Days: The study and its archive (2019) edited by MUAC; Maria Elvia de Hank (2010), Inedito (2012), Gestus (2015), San Pedro Garza García (2019), and The Pencil of Nature (2023), published by RM Editorial, Barcelona.

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ÁLVARO VERDUZCO (Mexico City, 1977)
Artist based in Mexico City. His work is supported by both the smallest piece of paper and large walls, with which she uses the most varied media: from a pencil, collage and video to installation, to name a few). He problematizes the idea of the “phenomenology of drawing” using the mechanisms of memory as his main object of study. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the National School of Fine Arts of the UNAM (1997-2001) and has a postgraduate degree in practical theory at Goldsmiths College of the University of London in the United Kingdom.

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Colección Arte Abierto. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Corazonadas Remotas", 2019. Foto: Mariana Yañez

08 Nov RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

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RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

REMOTE PULSE, 2019

Installation with heart rate sensor board.

Remote Pulse is an interactive installation consisting of two pulse-sensing stations that are interconnected over the Internet. When a person places their hands on one station automatically the persono in the other station feels their pulse, as the plates vibrate in sync with the heartbeath of the remote person, and viceversa. Two lights indicate the hearthbeat of both persons as well.

This piece was originally presented as part of Lozano-Hemmer’s Border Tuner installation across the US-Mexico border, with one station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and the other in El Paso, Texas. For the exhibition Latidos, the stations were interconnected between Arte Abierto, in Mexico City and the Museo Amparo of Puebla. Now both stations are located in the architectural complex of Artz Pedregal.

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

(Mexico, 1967)

Interdisciplinary artist whose work has been focused in developing interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance. His main interest is to create platforms for public participation, usign technology as a language of our time, and as an inevitable yet questionable vehicle. He was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the 52nd Venice Biennale. His work has been presented at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA),among other spaces.