Contemporary Art Tag

POETRY TO GO

Guided visit + Charms Workshop

Through his rainbows in advertisement format, Ugo Rondinone rescues popular phrases, book titles, and fragments of songs or poems so that we can project our own desires, reflections, and everyday complexities.

In this guided visit + workshop through the long last happy exhibition we will talk about the artist’s work and his interests around poetry, and we will compose a Poem to Go in the form of a bracelet, charm, necklace or keychain. We will make a portable poem that seeks to free the word from the confines of paper, taking it to a world in motion.

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long last happy by Ugo Rondinone is an exhibition that invites visitors to a luminous world inspired by the celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon and the rainbow. Through monumental sculptures and an ongoing public participation project, Rondinone explores the themes of consolation, regeneration and spiritual connection.
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POETRY TO GO
Guided visit + Charms Workshop

  • SAT.MAR.15.2025 + SAT.MAR.22.2025
  • 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
  • For teenagers and adults
  • Limited capacity | Free
  • Arte Abierto Pedregal | 2nd floor, ARTZ

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PUBLIC PROGRAM | long last happy

UGO RONDINONE

long last happy

   FEB.09.2025 – JUN.15.2025

long last happy is an exhibition by Swiss contemporary artist Ugo Rondinone featuring works inspired by the principles of three celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon, and the rainbow. Through these large-format sculptures and the activation created by 1600 children from diverse backgrounds, Rondinone explores the natural world and leads us to a reflection on human spirituality: solace and regeneration.

long last happy

“The natural world has held a place of great importance for my artistic practice across several decades. During the AIDS crisis in 1989 and after my partner Manfred Welser died of AIDS-related illness, I turned away from grief and found in nature a spiritual roadmap for solace, regeneration, and inspiration. In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and profane, the mystical and the mundane, vibrate against one another.

 

The exhibition at Arte Abierto is built upon the principles of three celestial forces from the natural world: the sun, the moon and the rainbow.

 

the sun and the moon (2022), are formed with delicate circles fashioned from castbronze tree branches, one gilded and the other silver leaved. The twin sculptures are both over sixteen feet tall. Installed parallel to one another, the sun and the moon are aligned along an east-west axis of Arte Abierto’s space, resembling portals or apertures.

 

Like the cycle of day and night, these two archetypes represent contradictory, codependent and complementary values. We can think of the sun and the moon as our metaphorical eyes. When the two principles marry, visions become binocular; that is; two visionary bodies of being integrate into one mysterious whole. Based on each one’s unique vision, the sun and the moon bring in different information that contributes to the vision guiding this exhibition and our own wild life.

 

These two sculptures are accompanied by two interactive artworks; your age and my age and the age of the sun (2013–ongoing) and your age and my age and the age of the moon (2020–ongoing). The visitors will find, behind a magic door, two rooms filled with thousands of images of the sun and the moon painted by children from all over Mexico. When I visited the space of Arte Abierto, I determined that public engagement would be one of the key aspects of the exhibition.

 

Acknowledging the Foundation’s interest in developing country-wide networks, I asked that my project should be far-reaching. Assisted by Arte Abierto’s Public Program department, I engaged 1,600 children from diverse backgrounds, including children with physical and developmental disabilities, and others from a range of socio-economic realities. Each child was invited to create a drawing for the installation with the promise that there would be no curatorial intervention and every sun and moon drawing produced would be presented.

 

Outside the exhibition space, on the rooftop, stands LONG LAST HAPPY (2020), a tenmeter-long neon, whose rainbow-striped letters spell out a poetic statement addressed to passers-by. This message of eternal bliss is timeless and unites people over millennia and continents. A rainbow is a bridge that unifies everything with everyone.”

– ugo rondinone december 2024

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Thank you to all the children from: AMPRE A.C. – ARTelier – Cedros International School: Taller de Artes Plásticas – Centro Educativo EXEA: 1ro, 2do, 3ro, 4to, 5to, 6to – Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B – Colegio Akil Bilingüe: 1ro, 2do, 3ro, 4to, 5to, 6to – Colegio del Valle: Prefirst, 1ro, 2do, 3ro, 4to – Colegio Giocosa: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B – Colegio Junípero – Elementary School: PFA, PFB, PFC, 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, 4C, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B – Colegio Junípero – Preschool: PKA, PKB, PKC, KA, KB, KC, PPA, PPB, PPC, PPD – Colegio Montessori Itkan Ikal: Taller 1 y Taller 2 – Colegio Sagrado Corazón: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B – Colegio Suizo de México A.C.: 3A, 4A, 5B, 6B – Estudio Nómade – Fundación Hogar Dulce Hogar I.A.P. – Green Gather: Squirel, Bengal Tiger, White Tiger, Bears, White Wolf, Black Wolf, Woodpecker Blue, Woodpecker Green, Black Puma, Golden Puma – Hogar “Las Nieves” A. C. – La Salle Pedregal: Taller de Arte y Diseño – Liceo Franco-Mexicano: CPE, CPF, CM1C – Más Arte Academia – Nahualita – Adriana Segura (Madre de familia) – Taller de Arte Infantil Club France.

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Visit long last happy by Ugo Rondinonefrom Tuesday to Sunday from 12 to 7 pm at Arte Abierto located on the 2nd floor at ARTZ (Periférico Sur 3720 Col. Jardines del Pedregal, CP. 01900 Mexico City.

Free admission.

UGO RONDINONE

long last happy, 2020

Neon, acrylic glass, translucent foil, aluminium.

Ugo Rondinone uses poetry and language as a basis to explore emotions that deeply impact human beings. LONG LAST HAPPY (2020), a ten-meter-long neon sign made up of rainbow-striped letters, is part of his Rainbow poems series. The title of the piece refers to a collection of short stories by the writer Barry Hannah.

For Rondinone, this piece is a poetic statement addressed to passersby, a message of eternal happiness that is timeless and unites people across millennia and continents.

A rainbow is a bridge that unites everything with everyone.

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UGO RONDINONE

(Switzerland, 1964)

Recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, Rondinone is an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions. The breadth and generosity of his vision of human nature have resulted in a wide range of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects, installations, videos, and performances. His hybridized forms, which borrow from ancient and modern cultural sources alike, exude pathos and humor, going straight to the heart of the most pressing issues of our time, where modernist achievement and archaic expression intersect.

Ugo Rondinone was born in 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland. He studied at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna before moving to New York in 1997, where he lives and works to this day. His work has been the subject of recent institutional exhibitions at Belvedere, Vienna (2021) Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Petit Palais, Paris, Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, Venice (2022), The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Storm King, New York, The Städel Museum, Frankfurt (2023), Museum SAN, Wonju, Museum Würth 2 and Sculpture Garden, Künzelsau, The Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland and Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2024). In 2007 he represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

ugorondinone.com/
@ugorondinone0

UN LIBRO ES…

UN LIBRO ES… AN ENCOUNTER.UN ENCUENTRO

Un punto de encuentro para conversar, celebrar y difundir el gusto por los libros y los formatos impresos

Arte Abierto termina el año con la cuarta edición de su feria editorial Un libro es…

Un libro es… es mucho más que una feria, es un punto de encuentro en el sur de la CDMX donde cada año el público tiene la oportunidad de conversar, celebrar y difundir el gusto por los libros y los formatos impresos. Este 2024, nos reuniremos en nuestro jardín para disfrutar de un ambiente acogedor, en el que los visitantes podrán descubrir propuestas editoriales, participar en actividades y sumergirse en el mundo del arte editorial.

Acompáñanos en esta celebración del libro y la lectura.

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SAT.DIC.07.2024
13:00 – 19:30 h
Free admission
Arte Abierto Garen | 2 floor – ARTZ

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PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS AND PROJECTS

Brillantinas MUAC

A collective space for digital, pedagogical and management experimentation with a gender perspective. This multidisciplinary program has explored various methods through social networks to strengthen the museum with a young and not so young public, generating a sense of belonging by building bridges with digital, ecological, esoteric, kawaii, queer, non-binary and anti-patriarchal practices.

@brillantinas_muac

muac.unam.mx/las-brillantinas

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Cafeleería

Read and laugh at Cafeleería.

Cafeleería is a cultural center, bookstore and cafeteria in the Municipality of Coyoacán, dedicated to the sale, dissemination and activation of books, printed materials and editorial projects that are unique, original and different from those of large bookstores.

@cafeleeria

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Estudio Nómade

Estudio Nómade is a project by Elvia González and Carlos Villajuárez who combine their multiple disciplines to generate a space for creation, play, imagination, exchange of ideas, art and speculation.
Within the studio they put into practice exercises that combine different disciplines such as: 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.

Within the development of the workshops, dynamics of integration, participation and collaboration are established. Where creative capacity and sensitivity stand out as something natural in each one of us.

@estudio___nomade

www.estudionomade.co

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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/

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GLACIAR. Frozen books

This is a bookstore/ice cream shop located in the San Rafael neighborhood. Its editorial selection focuses on independent publications and includes art books, narrative, essays, poetry, illustration and others that break away from genres.

@libroshelados

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Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil

At MACG Ediciones, publications are understood as a powerful tool to broaden the scope and deepen reflection on artistic discourses. Their collection is nourished by the exhibition and educational programming of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum. MACG Infantil is an editorial series that calls upon writers, artists, and illustrators to create narratives inspired by the works of the museum’s founding collection. Together, they seek to promote reading, imagination, and an approach to art from childhood.

@museocarrillogil

museodeartecarrillogil.inba.gob.mx

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piedra ediciones

A series of artistic projects that use printed publications as a means of circulation, turning each copy into a multiple and simultaneous piece. Each title is the result of collaboration and curatorial/editorial support, thus generating a collection of book-works that can be read, circulated and distributed in environments accessible to a wide audience and not just as unique objects.

piedra ediciones is a project by Alfonso Santiago.

@piedraediciones

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Trece Ojos

Editorial production and risographic printing studio, located in Mexico City. Since its founding in 2020 and with an emphasis on personal narratives and those of the LGBTTI+ community, this project seeks to materialize the stories and accompany the processes and concerns of its collaborators.

@trece.ojos

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Young Collectors

A platform dedicated to the dissemination of visual creators. It seeks to generate new collectors and give space to young artists in Mexico through exhibitions, collaborations, PopUp Shows and consultancies. They like to rethink and produce the spaces and typologies in which creatives meet, dialogue, build or imagine together.

@youngcollectorsmx

www.youngcollectors.com.mx

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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.

@arte_abierto

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Join us and spend time together among books.

A book is… the best way to celebrate 2024.

Learn about Arte Abierto’s Editorial Program at the Polyforum Siqueiros.

  • Arte Abierto participates in the 2nd edition of Pie de Imprenta.
  • Arte Abierto presents its editorial project.
  • Pie de Imprenta is a traveling art book fair organized by ESPAC.

 

Mexico City, November 10, 2024.- The Arte Abierto editorial project will participate in the 2nd edition of Pie de Imprenta with four publications: Luz Instante, Things We Do for Love, Modern Nature and Cositas. Arte Abierto’s editorial project is to offer books that generate free discussions about the exhibitions commissioned by the Foundation. More than a catalog or artist’s book, it is an extension of the exhibition that opens up to dialogue, to different points of view.

Pie de imprenta is a traveling art book fair organized by ESPAC. The second edition will take place on Saturday, November 16, 2024 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Polyforum Siqueiros facilities. This edition will feature more than 60 national and international exhibitors, a rich public program that includes talks, workshops and activations.

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SAT.16.NOV. 2024
11:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Polyforum Siqueiros (Av. Insurgentes Sur 701, Nápoles, CDMX. Entrance through Filadelfia)
Free admission

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PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS
Alacraña / Libros de Mano, Alias editorial, Analog Typologies, Arte Abierto, Beibi Creisi, Bienal Tlatelolca, Big Sur, Brillantinas MUAC, Can Can Press, Casa Bosques Librería, Casa Gallina, Centro de la imagen, Cuadernillo de dibujo, DINAMITA, Doroteo y el conejo de la Luna, eco hace troje, Ediciones de Interés General / Nuevo Orden, Ediciones MACG, Ediciones sin resentimiento, Ediciones Vorágine Urbana / Saca la Lengua Fanzine, ESPAC, Fauna, Festina Publicaciones , FIEBRE Ediciones, Formas Nómadas, Fundación Jumex, Galería Mal d3 ojo, Gato negro ediciones, GLACIAR LIBROS HELADOS, Gris Tormenta, HagoLibros / eKphrasis, Hasard ediciones , Hyper-vinculo, Impresos México / Miau Ediciones, Juan de la Cosa, Kobayashi Books Press, La Duplicadora, Luxpluslux Editorial, Malviviente, Merlina, librería anticuaria, Mi Valedor, MONOMÁNTICO, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Máquina de aplausos, Nadie Distribuye, NIXXXON | PARALELO, OMG PRESS, piedra ediciones, Pinche Chica Chic, Pitzilein Books, Roga Ediciones, S.AR.A., Servidor Local, SILVESTRE, Studio H13, Suave, taller de ediciones económicas, Temblores Publicaciones, Trece Ojos, Triste Club y Tristes Trópicos Editorial.

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ESPAC

Non-profit organization dedicated to the study, dissemination, and promotion of current artistic production based on multiple readings and approaches to its collection and the needs of Mexico’s artistic community. Our projects and mission have taken a collaborative approach over the years. The curatorial discourse has been nurtured by the interests of each member of the team, as well as by the traces left by our collaborators.

espac.org.mx/
IG: @espacmx

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SOUNDS TO SYNCHRONICITY
Audio performance
SITES

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

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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.

IG @sites____

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.

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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

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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 (LAAEx 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.

IG @cinthya_gl

MARIO GARCÍA TORRES

COSITAS   JAN.19.2024 – AUG.11.2024

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.

 

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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

 

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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).