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Contemporary Art Tag

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

21 Oct TRANSVERSAL VISIT WITH MARA FORTES 🗓 🗺

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CINEMA-FISSURES

THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE TRANSVERSAL VISIT WITH MARA FORTES

The purpose of this visit is to investigate the extra-visual dimension of cinema, based on the idea of the “fissure of the image”, inspired by the concept of kintsugi that is addressed in Things We Do for Love.

DESCRIPTION

Thursday October 27, 2022.
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Aimed at all public
Limited admission
Free admission

If you wish to know more about Mara Forte’s visit to Things We Do for Love or Mara Fortes click here.
Download the press release here.

Programa Público de Arte Abierto. CINE-FISURAS. Recorrido transversal por Things We Do for Love con Mara Fortes

08 Oct CINEMA-FISSURES 🗓 🗺

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CINEMA-FISSURES

Things We Do for Love transversal visit with Mara Fortes

DESCRIPTION

As part of our activities linked to the exhibition Things We Do for Love we have a special visit with Mara Fortes.

Thursday October 27, 2022
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Aimed at all public
Limited admission
This visit/workshop is free

CINEMA-FISSURES
Things We Do for Love transversal visit with Mara Fortes.

Through exercises in the exhibition space of direct experience and a brief capsule of historical references, we will explore how this audiovisual installation awakens auditory, proprioceptive (the brain’s ability to recognize the muscles of the body in space), and intuitive intelligence. The visit is an invitation to be undisciplined spectators, to stretch time, fold space, feel the image, and navigate the multiverse of cinema —to grasp what overflows from the screen, sculpts stories and suspends the parameters that define our everyday reality.

Mara Fortes
Researcher and curator of cinema and audiovisual media. Her research focuses on media archaeology, installation art, avant-garde film history, experimental and expanded film, sound art, and queer film. She has curated for the Reina Sofía Museum, London MexFest, La otra bienal, REDCAT, and the Centro de Cultura Digital. Since 2003 she has worked in film distribution and exhibition, collaborating with NGOs such as Women Make Movies, and programming for various festivals, including the Morelia International Film Festival, the Ambulante Festival, and CUÓRUM. She is currently a Senior Curator at the Festival de Telluride. Her publications include the books Chris Marker Inmemoria and El cine como arte subversivo de Amos Vogel (edited with Lorena Gómez Mostajo), and Historias de la Noche (with Fabiola Torres-Alzaga).

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Erick Meyenberg’s show Things We Do for Love, is open from Tuesday to Sunday from July 24 to December 18, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the second floor in ARTZ Pedregal in Mexico City.
Fee $ 35 pesos.

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

CINE-FISURAS. Recorrido transversal por Things We Do for Love con Mara Fortes

Programa Público de Arte Abierto. Palpitar la memoria. Taller de escritura en cerámica Impartido por Sandra Sánchez.

01 Oct MEMORY BEAT 🗓 🗺

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MEMORY BEAT

CERAMIC WRITING WORKSHOP

WITH SANDRA SÁNCHEZ

DESCRIPTION

Arte Abierto begins the Public Program activities linked to the exhibition Things We Do for Love with a ceramic writing workshop taught by Sandra Sánchez.

Saturday October 15, 2022.
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Aimed at all public: children, youth and adults.
Limited admission | Prior registration at actividades@arteabierto.org
This workshop is free.

MEMORY BEAT

This workshop is an invitation to explore personal memory through narrative, visual and tactile writing. We will investigate our own history and translate specific experiences into forms, sensations, intensities and flows.

Ceramics will allow us to capture not only stories and figures, but also forces, footprints and body movements. In addition to making an inquiry about intimacy and writing. The result will be a piece of pottery that each participant can take home, like a talisman.

No prior knowledge is required.

IMPORTANT: As we will be working on low-temperature ceramics, after the workshop, we will keep your piece for burning. A week later we will have the piece already fired and enameled available for you to pick up at Arte Abierto.

Sandra Sánchez Writes in different media, including ceramics. Her current research focuses on modes of collaborative writing and proposals for production and reception beyond the aesthetic relationship “artist-work-spectator”. In 2015 she founded Zona de Desgaste, a space dedicated to mediation, writing and critical reflection on contemporary art and art philosophy. She currently edits OndaMx magazine, leads Aeromoto Library and teaches at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.

IG: @phiopsia

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

Programa Público de Arte Abierto. Palpitar la memoria. Taller de escritura en cerámica Impartido por Sandra Sánchez. Foto Andrés Haquet

01 Oct MEMORY BEAT ONCE AGAIN 🗓

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MEMORY BEAT

CERAMIC WRITING WORKSHOP

WITH SANDRA SÁNCHEZ

Because our guests asked for it, Arte Abierto’s Public Program launches a second session of the ceramic writing workshop with Sandra Sánchez, as part of the activities linked to the exhibition Things We Do for Love.

DESCRIPTION

Saturday October 15, 2022.
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Aimed at all public: children, youth and adults.
Limited admission | Prior registration at actividades@arteabierto.org
This workshop is free.

If you need further information about this workshop or Sandra Sánchez click here.

Programa Público de Arte Abierto. Palpitar la memoria. Taller de escritura en cerámica Impartido por Sandra Sánchez. Foto Andrés Haquet

Entre intuiciones y acciones: ¿cómo se realizó la exposición Things We Do for Love? Conversación con Erick Meyenberg y Roberto Velázquez sobre los procesos de producción y las implicaciones de hacer posible una muestra audiovisual y de cerámica como Things We Do for Love.

15 Sep BETWEEN INTUITIONS AND ACTIONS 🗓

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BETWEEN INTUITIONS AND ACTIONS

HOW WAS THE EXHIBITION THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE CREATED?

A CONVERSATION WITH ERICK MEYENBERG AND ROBERTO VELÁZQUEZ

DESCRIPTION

Arte Abierto’s Program continues with the activities linked to the current exhibition with a talk on the production processes and the implications of making an audiovisual and ceramic exhibition such as Things We Do for Love possible.

Thursday, September 22, 2022
Time: 17:30 hr
All audiences
Free admission

BETWEEN INTUITIONS AND ACTIONS: HOW WAS THE EXHIBITION THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE CREATED?

A conversation with Erick Meyenberg and Roberto Velázquez about the production processes and the implications of making an audiovisual and ceramic exhibition such as Things We Do for Love possible.

During the production process of Things We Do for Love, there were a series of encounters and disagreements with different materials and supports that, despite the technical distances, made the project an assembled whole. Thus, this exhibition is an example of how the complexities of artistic practice and its transformations as a result of the multiple perspectives and actions that intervene in its production can be addressed.

This conversation with Erick Meyenberg and Roberto Velázquez, Director of Planning and Operations at Arte Abierto, will be a journey through the various collaborations that shaped the project, recounting the intuitions, actions, voices and finally, the matters that were involved. in its elaboration, such as ceramics, video, sound or museography itself.

Some of the questions that will guide the discussion are: How were the video and ceramic pieces in the exhibition created? What does it mean to mount an exhibition of these dimensions? What kind of knowledge, knowledge and trades are involved in the artistic creation and exhibitions?

For Arte Abierto it is essential to expose the collaborative nature of art through exhibitions that, like this one, arise from a process and an exchange of ideas, thoughts and feelings.

Roberto Velázquez

He is Director of Planning and Operations at Arte Abierto. He has experience in directing and coordinating artistic projects, as well as advising on the construction of museums and designing cultural management and administration programs for different institutions, exhibition spaces and warehouses specializing in the storage of works of art, such as the Museo Jumex, Jumex Collection Ecatepec, Arte Abierto para Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos and other private collections.

He is the founder and operational director of Oficina Particular, specialized in the management, development and construction of art and museum projects, as well as institutional strategies and artistic content programs.

IG: @robvelasquezsu

Erick Meyenberg

He is an interdisciplinary visual artist who sees painting as a fundamental element of expression, although he also explores other media such as sound installation, sculpture, drawing, collage, video and performance. His work is the result of research on topics such as literature, history, social sciences and natural sciences. He considers the editing process fundamental in his work, from where he explores the aesthetic potential of images.

He is a graduate of the National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM. He has an MA in Visual Arts from the University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany (UdK, Berlin) where he studied under the mentorship of German artist Rebecca Horn. His work is part of some public collections such as the MUAC of the UNAM, Amparo Museum, the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), the Telefónica Foundation, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art (Mexico) and the Benetton Foundation, (Italy) . He has participated in numerous collective and individual exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Currently, he is part of the National System of Creators. Meyenberg lives and works in Mexico City.

erickmeyenberg.com/
IG: @erickmeyenberg

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

Entre intuiciones y acciones: ¿cómo se realizó la exposición Things We Do for Love? Conversación con Erick Meyenberg y Roberto Velázquez sobre los procesos de producción y las implicaciones de hacer posible una muestra audiovisual y de cerámica como Things We Do for Love.

Palpitar la memoria. Taller de escritura en cerámica Impartido por Sandra Sánchez. Foto cortesía Sandra Sánchez

15 Aug MEMORY BEAT 🗓

Posted at 19:25h in Public Program

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MEMORY BEAT

CERAMIC WRITING WORKSHOP

WITH SANDRA SÁNCHEZ

DESCRIPTION

Arte Abierto begins the Public Program activities linked to the exhibition Things We Do for Love with a ceramic writing workshop taught by Sandra Sánchez.

Saturday August 20, 2022.
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Aimed at all public: children, youth and adults.
Limited admission | Prior registration at info@arteabierto.org
This workshop is free.

MEMORY BEAT

No prior knowledge is required.

IG: @phiopsia

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

Programa Público de Arte Abierto. Palpitar la memoria. Taller de escritura en cerámica Impartido por Sandra Sánchez.

Contemporary Art Tag

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

21 Oct TRANSVERSAL VISIT WITH MARA FORTES 🗓 🗺

CINEMA-FISSURES

THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE TRANSVERSAL VISIT WITH MARA FORTES

08 Oct CINEMA-FISSURES 🗓 🗺

CINEMA-FISSURES

Things We Do for Love transversal visit with Mara Fortes

01 Oct MEMORY BEAT 🗓 🗺

MEMORY BEAT

CERAMIC WRITING WORKSHOP

WITH SANDRA SÁNCHEZ

01 Oct MEMORY BEAT ONCE AGAIN 🗓

MEMORY BEAT

CERAMIC WRITING WORKSHOP

WITH SANDRA SÁNCHEZ

15 Sep BETWEEN INTUITIONS AND ACTIONS 🗓

BETWEEN INTUITIONS AND ACTIONS

HOW WAS THE EXHIBITION THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE CREATED?

A CONVERSATION WITH ERICK MEYENBERG AND ROBERTO VELÁZQUEZ

15 Aug MEMORY BEAT 🗓

MEMORY BEAT

CERAMIC WRITING WORKSHOP

WITH SANDRA SÁNCHEZ

JOSE DÁVILA (Mexico, 1974)
JOINT EFFORT, 2019