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15 Jul PARALLEL LANDSCAPES VISIT ONE 🗓 🗺

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

ECOLOGIC SPACE OF THE ANAHUACALLI MUSEUM

Guided by the Anahuacalli Museum team.
+ An exercise in experimental drawing by Escrituras vegetales.

To kick off the Parallel Landscapes program, the first visit will be a tour of the Ecologic Space of the Anahuacalli Museum, which is one of the treasures that the Museum houses. In this there are almost 20,000 m2 of endemic vegetation, several water wells, and a sea of volcanic stone from the eruption of the Xitle volcano. This tour helps to understand how the original architecture, projected by Diego Rivera, combines landscape with functionalist architecture and aspects of pre-Hispanic cosmogony; while the architectural expansion serves as a contemporary reinterpretation of the existing buildings and dialogues with the volcanic environment in a game with the rugged topography.

After the visit trough the Ecologic Space of the Anahuacalli Museum, Escrituras vegetales will share Nos habita un mundo vegetal que habitamos, an activity to reflect on the blurred limits of the notion of interior-exterior, and environment-contour, by which architecture has molded us. 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, playing with the borders of the environments that surround us and that shape the Museum in relation to the plant world.

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT ONE: ECOLOGIC SPACE OF THE ANAHUACALLI MUSEUM
Guided by the Anahuacalli Museum team
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An exercise in experimental drawing by Escrituras vegetales

SAT.22.JUL.2023
12:00 hrs.
Ecologic Space of the Anahuacalli Museum
Pre-register here.
Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

Enter here to learn more about Arte Abierto’s Parallel Landscapes Program, with upcoming visit dates and places.

Museo Anahuacalli
Projected between 1942-1957 and inaugurated in 1967, the Anahuacalli Museum is a house for pre-Hispanic art, designed by the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Within his search to create a “City of Arts”, he projected the Anahuacalli as a great stage for the development of various artistic expressions in an atmosphere whose architecture represented the search for the Mexican essence.

http://museoanahuacalli.org.mx/
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IG Anahuacalli Museum workshops @talleres_anahuacalli

15 Jul PARALLEL LANDSCAPES 🗓 🗺

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PEDREGAL

Parallel Landscapes is a program of visits to four conjunctural sites in El Pedregal as part of the Modthern Nature exhibition by Gabriela Galván. The visits are designed to generate new possibilities of understanding the transforming landscape in El Pedregal environment.

Together with artists and different specialists from different areas – who contributed with their experiences and knowledge to the Modthern Nature project – we will visit each of the proposed sites to find new ways of inhabiting and looking at this landscape within its current urban context.

Parallel Landscapes is a way of sharing part of Gabriela Galván’s research, not from the bibliographic text or the data, but from the gaze, the body and coming into contact with the people, environments and landscapes that nurtured her research field.

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal

Previous registration needed | Limited space | For all public.
Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

Pre-register here.
Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

VISITS

JULY>>

VISIT ONE: ESPACIO ECOLÓGICO DEL MUSEO ANAHUACALLI (Ecological Space of the Ahahuacalli Museum)
Anahuacalli Museum team
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An experimental drawing exercise by Escrituras vegetales

SAT.22.JUL.2023
12:00 hrs.
Espacio Ecológico del Museo Anahuacalli

AUGUST>>

VISIT TWI: REPSA (El Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve, UNAM)
Dr. Silke Cram
Biologist and PhD in Agronomy, soil expert, current Executive Secretary of REPSA and researcher at the Institute of Geography, UNAM.
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A body exploration exercise by Bárbara Foulkes

SAT.19.AUG.2023
10:00 hrs.
REPSA (El Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve), UNAM
Ecological Path – Sculptures Walk – Sculpture Space

SEPTEMBER>>

VISIT THREE: THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP
Luis Javier de la Torre
President and Founder of the Board of Trustees Ruta de la Amistad A.C.
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A landscape intervention by Proyecto Escrituras Experimentales

SAT.23.SEP.2023
10:00 hrs.
The Route of Friendship
(Station 7: Italy’s sculpture. Man of Peace by Costantino Nivola)

OCTOBER>>

VISIT FOUR: CASA ESTUDIO MAX CETTO
The first house in Jardines del Pedregal.
Bettina Cetto and Julián Arroyo Cetto
Bettina Cetto is an economist, writer, daughter of Max Cetto and the first girl to inhabit Jardines del Pedregal, and Julián Arroyo Cetto, architect, grandson of Max Cetto and current inhabitant of the house.

SAT.07.OCT.2023
12:00 hrs.
Casa Estudio Max Cetto

Gabriela Galván, Modern Nature/ Mother Nature, 2023. Tubo de vidrio pigmentado violeta, tubo de vidrio pigmentado amarillo, argón, mercurio, electrodos metálicos, corriente eléctrica 35 cm x 3.50 m x 12cm Foto: Guadalupe Salcedo. Cortesía de Arte Abierto

30 May MODERN/MOTHER NATURE 🗓

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GABRIELA GALVÁN

MODTHERN NATURE

06.2023 – 11.2023

Intro Bio Modern/Mother Nature Endemic plants of El Pedregal / Modern/Mother Nature, 2023

MODTHERN NATURE

Modthern Nature is a multisensorial and site-specific installation commissioned to artist Gabriela Galván (Mexico City, 1974) by Arte Abierto, with which our space is turned into an endemic and hydroponic garden which seeks to reflect upon the humanity-nature relationship, taking biodiversity and the transformation of El Pedregal as a result of modern thought as a starting point.

Modthern Nature arises from the interest in experiencing with the concept of transformation, privileging the contemplation of natural and everyday happenings through the senses. For Galván, transformation and temporality are notions which could be explored through art as fields of experimentation, investigation and knowledge, having the immediate context as reference and creating connections between living beings, places and cultures.

What we currently conceive as an urban zone, and was known in ancient Mesoamérica as Cuicuilco, was a territory which was buried by the eruption of the Xitle Volcano, provoking a volcanic landscape which we have nowadays come to witness, live in and think through. Later, during the 20th century, the area was intervened by a modern style of architecture which allows us to notice the links between natural development and human development.

The changes that the El Pedregal has undergone throughout its history allow us to think in concepts such as transformation, temporality and contemplation, which are of interest to the artist. The act of approaching this context from the vantage point of the present is not fortuitous: in the midst of our contemporary lives, it becomes urgent to contemplate the endemic nature that surrounds us in order to be able to recognize the knowledge transmitted by plants, rocks and living beings, as thus, reimagine our relationship to nature and our sense of belonging to it.

As Gabriela Galván puts forth, Modthern Nature suggests a re-enchantment with nature, but also reflects upon the importance of the sensorial aspect and our lived experience through its means. This project isn’t but a single glance at the grandiosity and complexity of El Pedregal, as guided by the knowledge of biologists, geologists, historians, landscapists and researchers who have studied the wisdoms of this historical space. This is also the first grand scale exhibition that Gabriela Galván has shown in Mexico for the past 10 years, and one of the most complex in her career.

Gabriela Galván’s exhibition, Modthern Nature, will be open from June to November 2023, Tuesday to Sunday from 12 to 7 pm at Espacio Arte Abierto located on the 2nd floor Artz Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720 Col. Jardines del Pedregal, CP. 01900, Mexico City).

We appreciate the support and advice to make this project possible to: Eduardo Berumen, Dra. N. Ivalú Cacho González, Arq. Wilfredo Cahuantzi Sigüenza, Blga. Teresa Castaño, Bettina Cetto, Dra. Silke Cram, Ing. Antonio González Guzmán, Ing. Luis Lin, Dra. María Fernanda Martinez-Báez Téllez, Pablo Villaseñor, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra (UNAM), Jardín Botánico (IB-UNAM), Reserva Ecológica del Pedregal de San Ángel (UNAM) y Taller de Paisaje Entorno.

TANIA CANDIANI (MÉXICO, 1974) KIOSKO SONORO, 2018 Estructura de acero, trompetas, tubos, bases de concreto. Colección Arte Abierto

16 May METAL ON METAL ON WIND 🗓 🗺

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METAL ON METAL ON WIND

PEPE MOGT & TANIA CANDIANI

KIOSCO SONORO ACTIVATION

As part of Arte Abierto’s Public Program and in collaboration with MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo), METAL ON METAL ON WIND, will take place, an outdoor sound intervention by Pepe Mogt to activate the sculpture Kiosko sonoro (2018) by Tania Candiani. This art piece is part of the Arte Abierto Collection and is comprised of a series of interconnected trumpets, which refers to the traditional kiosks in public squares. Its shape reflects on the social and cultural dynamics behind these constructions and how we appropriate them in our daily lives.

METAL ON METAL ON WIND
Kiosko sonoro activation
Pepe Mogt & Tania Candiani.

Friday, May 26, 2023
18:00h
Free
At Kiosko sonoro‘s garden, located on the 2nd floor in Artz Pedregal

Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974)
She lives and works in Mexico City. One of the central interests of her work is the expanded idea of translation, extended to the experimental field through the use of visual, sound, textual and symbolic languages. Many of her projects consider the universe of sound and the politics of listening as a tool capable of expanding and transforming perceptions, both human and non-human. A fundamental part of her work is related to feminist policies and practices, understanding them as a communal, affective and ritual experience. Its production usually involves interdisciplinary work groups in various fields, consolidating intersections between art, literature, music, architecture, science, and labor, with an emphasis on ancestral knowledge and techniques, technologies, and their history in the production of knowledge. She is a member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico; she is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution Research Grant for Artists; she is an artist-in-residence at the Arts at CERN program, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015 she represented Mexico at the 56th Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, institutions and independent spaces, and is part of important public and private collections.

taniacandiani.com/
IG: @tcandiani

Pepe Mogt
He is an electronic musician from Tijuana, seed of sound and creator of the Nortec concept. Today he experiments as a soloist in other sound and visual fields. As a producer and composer, his works are a mix of Techno with ambient progressions and have taken him to festivals such as MUTEK (Tokio, Montreal, Mexico), Glastonbury, FUSION (Germany), CRSSD (CA), SXSW (Austin) among others. in addition to various nightclubs from around the world. With Nortec Collective 2 Grammy nominations and 3 Latin Grammy Nominations.

IG: @pepemogt

METAL ON METAL ON WIND Tania Candiani & Pepe Mogt Activación de Kiosko Sonoro Arte Abierto

Modern / Mother Nature. Gabriela Galván. Arte Abierto. Foto Guadalupe Salcedo

11 May GABRIELA GALVÁN IN ARTE ABIERTO 🗓 🗺

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MODTHERN NATURE

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Arte Abierto once again transforms its exhibition space with a project commissioned to mexican artist Gabriela Galván, a multisensory installation composed by living nature.

Modthern Nature by Gabriela Galván, a site-specific installation in which Arte Abierto is transformed into a natural and sensorial hydroponic garden, that seeks to generate cognitive, contemplative and imaginative experiences around nature and our belonging to it. In addition, for the first time an Arte Abierto exhibition extends to the public space of Artz Pedregal with a natural and artistic garden.

The proposal takes El Pedregal as a starting point as a site that has been transformed throughout history, beginning with the construction of Cuicuilco, one of the most important and ancient cities in the Valley of Mexico (800 BC – 250 AD), buried by lava caused by the eruption of the Xitle volcano and whose effect resulted in a volcanic landscape that we can still witness, live and think about. Another key reference is the modernist architecture of the mid-twentieth century that was developed in this area and that responded to a process of modernization of the city, which allows us to think about the different transformations that the Pedregal area has undergone in its different temporalities. Some examples are the Casa Estudio Max Cetto and the Casa Cueva de Juan and Helen O’Gorman, where the architectural forms responded to the foundations of the volcanic terrain and in which gardens with rocks and endemic plants of the area were designed, thus showing, the integration between nature and human development.

For press release, click here.

Gabriela Galván (Mexico City, 1974)
Artist and art educator. Her work focuses on exploring the concept of transformation through different media such as installation, public art, sculpture, video, drawing, design, and performance. She is interested in the processes of study, production, dialogue, and interaction that involve interconnectivity and the open exchange of ideas and sensory experiences. She is currently focused on processes of exploration of time, to develop a body of work in relation to flowers and living plants.
Her work has been part of exhibitions in museums and galleries such as the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain), the Kunsthaus Baselland (Switzerland), the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany), the Museo Tamayo, the Museo de Arte Moderno (MX), the Museo Carrillo Gil, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and the Museo de la Ciudad de México, to name a few. As an art educator, she has been a visiting professor at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basilea, Poznań University of Fine Arts, the New York Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Brooklyn College (CUNY), among others. She currently lives and works in New York.

IG @gabriela_galvan_artist

Modern / Mother Nature. Gabriela Galván. Arte Abierto. Foto Roberto Velázquez

Morpho de Anibal Catalan Antara / Arte Abierto

18 Mar MORPHO – ANIBAL CATALAN 🗓 🗺

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MORPHO

ANIBAL CATALAN

Morpho is a sculptural installation, especially conceived for the architectural space of Antara Polanco and developed in collaboration with Arte Abierto.

In Morpho, the Mexican artist Anibal Catalan takes as a reference the natural forms of the tiger dragonfly and the colors of the painting Yellow Landscape (1908) by the Russian artist Kasimir Malevich, to create a structure that allows the viewer to relate sensitively and spatially with the place that inhabits and travels. The side walls use the same shapes and colors in composition, creating a dialogue between the two-dimensionality of the murals and the three-dimensionality of the installation.

Morpho opens to the public in the main access tunnel of Antara and will be temporarily from Thursday March 23 to May 31, with free access.
To download Arte Abierto’s press release of Morpho click here.

To enter the Antara’s Morpho Press kit click here.

Anibal Catalan (Iguala, Guerrero, 1973)
Estudied Plastic Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda”. He was founder and member of the collective project GL Mutante (2003) and was part of the advisory committee of the Alterna y Corriente (2009) space in Mexico City. His work is based on a reflection on space and architecture, through painting, sculpture, video and installation, as well as site-specific projects and public spaces. Throughout his career, he has been part of individual exhibitions places like the MuseumsQuartier (Viena), Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Polyforum Siqueiros, CAN Foundation (Seúl); de manera colectiva, su obra se ha presentado en el Museum Gyeonggi (Corea del Sur), Museo de Arte Moderno (México), MARCO, San Diego Art Institute as well as in biennials such as the Tamayo Biennial, the Photography Biennial at Centro de la Imagen, Istanbul Design Biennale, among others.

IG @anibalcatalanstudio

Morpho de Anibal Catalan Invitación Antara / Arte Abierto

Un libro es... Programa editorial de Arte Abierto

28 Dec UN LIBRO ES… 🗓 🗺

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UN LIBRO ES…

UN LIBRO ES… A NEW STORY TO START THE YEAR.

With a selection of INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS who have explored and played with book formats.

Arte Abierto begins this year with the 2nd edition its editorial program Un libro es… with a gathering and editorial sale where you will find books for children, young people, adults and art lovers.

A selection of INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS will join Arte Abierto that have explored and played with book formats, including:

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.com/

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/

Fulgencio Pimentel

It is 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. His policy is to be faithful to artistic principles.

fulgenciopimentel.com/

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/

S.A.R.A.

S.A.R.A. is the acronym for Sociedad Anónima de Reproducción Autogestiva, a project by Lucía and Rodrigo Alarcón, focused on printing using the risographic technique (similar to that of a copier, but close to screen printing). They work directly with authors and artists who are inserted in the culture of creative self-publishing.

saraaaa.bigcartel.com/

Alacraña

Alacraña is an independent Mexican publisher founded by Abril Castillo Cabrera. Since 2019 has published books and narrative fanzines, drawing and essays in the collections: Los indelibles (with Libros de Mano), Tolvaneras and Ríos de piedra.

alacrannna.com/

Libros de Mano

Libros de Mano is an editorial label of Estudio Mano de Papel, lidered by Santiago Solís, which publishes prints, posters, books, engravings, graphic merchandise.

IG @libros_de_mano

Pitzilein Books

Founded in 2016, Pitzilein Books is a publisher born out of necessity: to write, modify, illustrate, imagine, and edit ideas. They have published books in a wide range of formats, on topics such as literature, visual art, and philosophy. Idalia Sautto, founder of Pitzilein, is an editor, art historian, and writer.

pitzileinbooks.com/

Also two independent bookstores will join us:

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.org/

Navegantes Librería

An independent bookstore in the Roma neighborhood, specializing in illustrated children’s and youth literature. Claudia Milenka and Román Rivas are the mind behind this project and the experts in carefully selecting the books they offer to the public.

facebook.com/naveganteslibreria/

JOIN US TO LIVE TOGETHER BETWEEN BOOKS.

Thursday January 5, 2023
Hours: 1pm a 5:30pm
For all audiences.
At Jardín Arte Abierto (Located on the 2nd floor at Artz Pedregal)
Free entrance.

A BOOK IS… IMAGINING POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR 2023.

Un libro es... Programa editorial de Arte Abierto

28 Dec ‘THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE’ EXTENDS ITS DATES 🗓

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‘THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE’ EXTENDS ITS DATES

Arte Abierto extends the dates of the exhibition Things We Do for Love by Erick Meyenberg, with music and sound design by Roderic.
You will now be able to visit the facility until February 19, 2023.
Do not miss it!

If you want to know more about Things We Do for Love click here.

Arte Abierto presenta la exposición 'Things We Do for Love' de Erick Meyenberg

MICROPAISAJES DE INVIERNO ÓPERA PARA EL JARDÍN En colaboración con Vanessa Freitag y estudiantes de la Escuela Superior de Música y la Academia de la Danza Mexicana Programa público de Arte Abierto

08 Dec WINTER MICROLANDSCAPES 🗓 🗺

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WINTER MICROLANDSCAPES

OPERA FOR THE GARDEN

In collaboration with Vanessa Freitag and students from the Escuela Superior de Música and the Academia de la Danza Mexicana

The winter solstice is the astronomical event that has made us aware of life cycles and renewal. We have celebrated and represented it with rituals, parties, traditions, deities, pyramids, mythologies and calendars. Despite the arrival of the cold and the end of the growing season, what is actually celebrated at this time is the next return of the sun and its reappearance in the sky.

To welcome winter, students from the Escuela Superior de Música and the Academia de la Danza Mexicana will offer an opera concert* for the plants of the Jardín Arte Abierto, accompanying them at the change of season and celebrating their new cycle , in a kind of celebration and momentary fiction.

As part of the concert, the artist Vanessa Freitag (Brazil, 1982) made a series of textile sculptures to cover the singers and turn them into abstract micro-landscapes and new garden-organisms. With this, they are transformed into artificial flowers that sprout momentarily with the sole purpose of comforting nature.

* The musical repertoire is a compilation of opera pieces related to winter, the changes of season and the cyclical celebrations of each end of the year, change or transformation.

Winter microlandscape
Opera for the garden
In collaboration with Vanessa Freitag and students from the Escuela Superior de Música and the Academia de la Danza Mexicana.

- Saturday, December 10, 2022
- 12:00h and 17:00h
- Free entry
- At Arte Abierto Garden, located on the second floor 2 in Artz Pedregal

VANESSA FREITAG (Santa Rosa, Brazil 1982)
She lives and works in León, Guanajuato. She is an artist trained in Plastic Arts, Artistic Education (Brazil) and Social Anthropology (Mexico), and a professor at the University of Guanajuato. Currently, she combines the teaching practice with the artistic one to investigate the contemporary textile language. Her interests revolve around crafts and the study of the natural landscape – flora and fauna – both in Mexico and Brazil, from where she thinks about her identity as a migrant. She creates textile clusters, micro-landscapes and abstract bodies that occupy space, and experiments with recycled materials to build organic forms that often inhabit an imaginary natural universe.

Among her individual exhibitions are O Jardim (Dos Topos Gallery / León / Mexico), Topiarius (Untitled Gallery / San Francisco / USA) and Pequenho Jardim Simbiótico (Latin Artists Gallery). She has also participated in collective exhibitions in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States, Romania, and the Ukraine. She received first place in the sculpture category at the IV Guanajuato Contemporary Art Salon (2021, Irapuato / Mexico) and at FIBRA – Textile Art Biennial (2019, Porto Alegre / Brazil). In 2020, she collaborated in the MEIO Cura project (Flotar Programa, CDMX). Recently, she did a work production residency at Residencia Art Project (Playa del Carmen / Mexico).

freitagvanessa.com/
IG: @freitag_textileart

SINGERS AND DANCERS
STUDENTS OF THE HIGHER SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND THE MEXICAN DANCE ACADEMY

Abel Josué Pérez Lara
Brianda Andrea Pancardo Cancino
Miguel Ángel Linares Ibarra
Miguel Ángel Ramírez Valencia
Nohemi Lozano Santiago
Rebeca Gabriela Rocha Campos

MICROPAISAJES DE INVIERNO, ÓPERA PARA EL JARDÍN

02 Dec JOSE DÁVILA

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JOSE DÁVILA

JOSE DÁVILA (Mexico, 1974)
JOINT EFFORT, 2019

Concrete volumes, volcanic rock and ratchet straps

This piece is a sculpture of large dimensions that exemplifies the formal and conceptual interests of the artist Jose Dávila, such as the relationship with resistance, tension and the geometric order of the materials that he uses. The volcanic rock and concrete here point out a contrast between organic and industrial materials, highlighting their strengths and capacities through a composition in which both elements support their respective weights, while the straps strengthen the dynamic exerted between the concrete and the rock. As suggested by its title, this piece is literally a joint effort to keep the balance, strength and harmony of its components.

Jose Dávila (Guadalajara, 1974) His work addresses the existent relationships between contrasting and contradictory elements. Most of his work focuses on exploring the possibilities, capacities and properties of sculpture, through a meticulous selection of the materials and the forms with which his pieces are produced. Commonly guided by intuition, in his sculptural structures tension and calm, geometric order and random chaos, and fragility and resistance coexist while connecting the form with the content.

Joint Effort, 2019 José Dávila Colección Arte Abierto

Contemporary Art Tag

15 Jul PARALLEL LANDSCAPES VISIT ONE 🗓 🗺

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

ECOLOGIC SPACE OF THE ANAHUACALLI MUSEUM

Guided by the Anahuacalli Museum team. + An exercise in experimental drawing by Escrituras vegetales.

15 Jul PARALLEL LANDSCAPES 🗓 🗺

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PEDREGAL

VISITS

30 May MODERN/MOTHER NATURE 🗓

GABRIELA GALVÁN

MODTHERN NATURE

06.2023 – 11.2023

MODTHERN NATURE

16 May METAL ON METAL ON WIND 🗓 🗺

METAL ON METAL ON WIND

PEPE MOGT & TANIA CANDIANI

KIOSCO SONORO ACTIVATION

11 May GABRIELA GALVÁN IN ARTE ABIERTO 🗓 🗺

GABRIELA GALVÁN:

MODTHERN NATURE

NEXT IN ARTE ABIERTO

18 Mar MORPHO – ANIBAL CATALAN 🗓 🗺

MORPHO

ANIBAL CATALAN

28 Dec UN LIBRO ES… 🗓 🗺

UN LIBRO ES…

UN LIBRO ES… A NEW STORY TO START THE YEAR.

With a selection of INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS who have explored and played with book formats.

JOIN US TO LIVE TOGETHER BETWEEN BOOKS.

A BOOK IS… IMAGINING POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR 2023.

28 Dec ‘THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE’ EXTENDS ITS DATES 🗓

‘THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE’ EXTENDS ITS DATES

08 Dec WINTER MICROLANDSCAPES 🗓 🗺

WINTER MICROLANDSCAPES

OPERA FOR THE GARDEN

In collaboration with Vanessa Freitag and students from the Escuela Superior de Música and the Academia de la Danza Mexicana

02 Dec JOSE DÁVILA

JOSE DÁVILA

JOSE DÁVILA (Mexico, 1974) JOINT EFFORT, 2019

Guided by the Anahuacalli Museum team.
+ An exercise in experimental drawing by Escrituras vegetales.

JOSE DÁVILA (Mexico, 1974)
JOINT EFFORT, 2019