La Ruta de la Amistad Tag

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP

With Proyecto Esculturas Experimentales and Luis Javier de la Torre

The Route of Friendship, pdesigned by Mathias Goertiz with the support of Architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, is the largest sculpture corridor in the world. In its 17 km. long, there are 19 stations (sculptures) built in concrete that were made by artists from the five continents. In this way, modern art took to the streets as a path of geometries and colors. At some point, it was completely abandoned for 25 years during which it faced damage from rapid urban growth. Since 1994, the Board of Trustees of The Route of Friendship Ltd. has dedicated itself to saving the Route, with the fundamental idea being a thorough restoration that considers not only the sculptures themselves, but also their surroundings.

This guided tour by Proyecto Escrituras Experimentales aims to explore two key sculptures from The Route of Friendship in Pedregal: SCULPTURE 13. Articulated Wall by Herbert Bayer, Austria, and SCULPTURE 7. Man of Peace, by Constantino Nivola , Italy. We will investigate the layers of time gathered at the site, from the potential of the surrounding ecosystem to the current recovery of the spaces with which the door to the return of nature is opened. Taking body perception as a starting point, we will enter the sites to test the possibilities of experimental writing and create a collective text that will be integrated into the public space. During the visit, we will be accompanied by Luis Javier de la Torre, president of the The Route of Friendship Ltd.

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT THREE: THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP
Proyecto Escrituras Experimentales
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Luis Javier de la Torre

  • SAT.23.SEP.2023
  • 12:00 hrs.
  • The Route of Friendship
  • Pre-register here.
  • Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
  • We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

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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

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

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PROYECTO ESCRITURAS EXPERIMENTALES (PEEX)
An independent collective of artistic and pedagogical curation, formed in 2020, in Mexico City, by curators, writers, educators and artists Cristina Torres and Christian Fajardo. Their practice takes as its starting points the intersections between contemporary art, critical mediation and experimental writing, to investigate, exhibit and promote the proposals and imagination of artists, educators and writers, women, non-binary people and the LGBT+ community who expand their fields of action from experimentation. In October 2022, they inaugurated a project space to present a curatorial program of exhibitions, workshops and talks in the historic Romita neighborhood of Mexico City, taking as its headquarters the space that for decades housed a printing press’s workshop.

www.escriturasexperimentales.com
IG @escrituras.experimentales

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LUIS JAVIER DE LA TORRE
He is currently President of the Board of Trustees for The Route of Friendship Ltd. He has dedicated himself to the field of management and communication, carrying out public relations projects in the advertising field and fund management in the cultural field. In 1992 he began his research around the The Route of Friendship Project, and in 1994 he created, together with Architect Javier Ramírez Campuzano, the The Route of Friendship Ltd., an institution dedicated to rescuing, conserving and disseminating the cultural legacy derived from the Olympic Games in Mexico. At the same time, he creates and directs the De-construction project, and carries out urban ecological recovery initiatives, such as the restoration of the Pedregales.

www.mexico68.org
IG @rutamex68

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL ECOLOGICAL RESERVE (REPSA)

With Dr Silke Cram and Bárbara Foulkes

Visit two of Paisajes Paralelos is in the Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve, UNAM (REPSA), located south of Mexico City, within Ciudad Universitaria. Due to its location and its biodiversity, it is considered an exceptional natural and biocultural heritage, not only within the Mexican context but in the world. The reserve protects the volcanic landscape of El Pedregal, in which the endemic ecosystem of the area develops freely and where the unique relationship between flora and fauna and the rocky terrain left behind by the eruption of the Xitle volcano is visible. This tour, led by Dr. Silke Cram, is an opportunity to learn about the ways of life, particularities and challenges of this biodiverse microcosm within one of the largest cities in the world.

After the visit, artist and choreographer Bárbara Foulkes will invite us to take a tour activating all the senses of our body to observe nature from a kinetic and perceptual perspective, redefining our relationship with the landscape, the territory and its stories. We will walk backwards, we will look with our hands, we will taste the sound and we will cross the lands of lava, breathing the wet scree like our tongues.

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT TWO: PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL ECOLOGICAL RESERVE
Dr. Silke Cram
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Bárbara Foulkes

  • SAT.19.AUG.2023
  • 10:00 hrs.
  • Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve
  • Pre-register here.
  • Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
  • We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

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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

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

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DR SILKE CRAM
She is a biologist and researcher at the UNAM Institute of Geography. She has a degree in Biology, a Master of Science from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences and a PhD in Agronomy from the Hohenheim Agricultural University, Stuttgart, Germany. She is currently Executive Secretary of REPSA and Titular “B” researcher. Her research topics are soil conservation and degradation, pollution from mining and oil activities, and she has recently focused her interest on the importance of soils in cities. She has carried out research projects on conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity, and she is part of a working group that discusses comprehensive risk assessment models. She has participated in several multidisciplinary projects such as: “Geopark Mixteca Alta”, “Evaluation of ecosystem services of urban soils”. She teaches graduate level courses on Soil Degradation and Contamination and undergraduate courses in Earth Sciences and Biology: Soil Restoration, Geoscree Restoration, and Environmental Diagnosis and Risk Assessment.

www.repsa.unam.mx/
IG @repsa_cu

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BÁRBARA FOULKES (City of Buenos Aires, 1982)
She is an artist, choreographer and cultural manager. Her work is linked to interdisciplinary, developing exhibition works and art education. Within her practice, the body is the starting point of an expanded investigation. She understands choreography as the relationships established between bodies and ideas and approaches drawing and writing as an extension of the ephemeral, a way of documenting action and turning it into sensitive study material. Her most outstanding pieces are Arrecife co-authored with Colectivo AM, commissioned by MUAC; Fleet, Insist Insist Insist co-authored with Abraham Cruzvillegas; Nine point Eight co-authored with Nuria Armenta, among others. She published Cómo estar 10 horas de pie, with Gato Negro Ediciones 2020. She was a beneficiary artist from EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts, NY, Tanztage Berlin and Landeshauptstadt Munich Kulturreferat, Germany; Tamayo Museum, among others. Her work has been presented at SAPS, La Tallera, MUAC, Museo Experimental el Eco, The Kitchen Performance Center NY, Redcat, Pacific Standart Time, LA, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid, among other venues. She was selected as a 2019 Performing Artist by La Tempestad magazine. She lives and works in Mexico since 2008.

IG @barbarafoulkes_

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.

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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.

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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

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

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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/
IG @anahuacalli
TW @anahuacalli
FB @museoanahuacalli
IG  Anahuacalli Museum workshops @talleres_anahuacalli

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.

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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

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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

DERIVES OF ART & ACHITECTURE

The Route of Friendship MEXICO68… beyond 1968.

A conversation with Luis Javier de la Torre.

n our fifth session of Derives of Art An Achetecture in Arte Abierto we invited the President of the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad, A.C. Luis Javier de la Torre, who’s conversation will guide us to rediscover the current Route of Friendship MEXICO68, integrated by 22 monumental sculptures located south of Mexico City and which were designed especially for the Olympic Games by artists from five continents.

Currently, the sculptures and their surroundings are home to different actions: multidisciplinary art in natural environments that are complex to conceive in urban life, as well as activities that break with the daily routine of a road as complex as the Periférico Sur. 54 years after its creation, the Route retains its original surprise factor for those who stand at the foot of the works.

If you want to know more about the history and the sculptures, visit mexico68.org 

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Live talk The Route of Friendship MEXICO68… beyond 1968.
With Luis Javier de la Torre.

  • Saturday, June 25, 2022
  • 13:00h
  • At Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the second floor 2 in Artz Pedregal
  • Free admission

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No registration needed.

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Luis Javier de la Torre (Mexico City, 1964)
He is currently president of the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C. He has dedicated himself to the field of management and communication, carrying out public relations projects in the advertising field and fund management in the cultural field. He has a graphic design studio that offers communication alternatives to projects with an artistic and ecological focus. In 1992 he began his research around The Route of Friendship project, and in 1994 he created, together with the architect Javier Ramírez Campuzano, the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C., an institution dedicated to rescuing, preserving and disseminating the cultural legacy derived from the Olympic Games in Mexico. In 1996, in collaboration with Gonzalo Fonseca, he opens the Torre de los Vientos to house independent artistic projects. At the same time, he creates and directs the De-construction project and carries out urban ecological recovery initiatives, such as the restoration of the pedregales.

< Arte Abierto > continues with its new public program “Derivas de arte y arquitectura”, which seeks to renew our gaze on the architectural legacy of Mexico City. From a series of talks focused on rescuing the parallel stories of emblematic architectural projects and public spaces that have witnessed the variable intersection between art and architecture. In this first stage, the program deals mainly with modern architecture, based on a series of talks given by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners.

With this program, ways of returning to architecture part of its public, experiential, collective character and close to those of us who inhabit the city are tested, recognizing in it its condition as a living archive. From these talks, circumstances, contexts and anecdotes are revealed that have been part of his sensitive memory and that complement his material memory, a relationship that often escapes documentary narratives and academic accounts.

The objective of the drifts is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which allow us to renew our gaze on the legacy of certain emblematic architectural and artistic works, as well as those that have been forgotten.

The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 1:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.

<Arte Abierto> Derives :

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Entorno urbano, cotidianidad y arte: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

March 26 : David Miranda / Del Animal Herido y otros eventos escultóricos dentro de la arquitectura moderna

April 23: Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro / Integración plástica de los edificios del campus central de CU: sus murales

May 28: Marisol Argüelles / La casa-estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Del espacio doméstico a la dimensión de lo público

June 25: Luis Javier de la Torre/ La Ruta de la Amistad MÉXICO68… más allá de 1968

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

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

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

CONVERSATION WITH

LUIS JAVIER DE LA TORRE

THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP MEXICO68… BEYOND 1968.

• Live conversation with Luis Javier de la Torre.

• Saturday, June 25, 2022. at 1:00 pm.

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

• Free admission.

This conversation with Luis Javier de la Torre will be a journey to rediscover the current Friendship Route MEXICO68, conformed by twenty-two monumental sculptures located south of Mexico City and created by artists from five continents especially for the 1968 Olympic Games.

To read more of this conversation visit the page within the public program.

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Luis Javier de la Torre (Mexico City, 1964)
He is currently president of the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C. He has dedicated himself to the field of management and communication, carrying out public relations projects in the advertising field and fund management in the cultural field. He has a graphic design studio that offers communication alternatives to projects with an artistic and ecological focus. In 1992 he began his research around the ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP project, and in 1994 he created, together with the architect Javier Ramírez Campuzano, the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C., an institution dedicated to rescuing, preserving and disseminating the cultural legacy derived from the Olympic Games in Mexico. In 1996, in collaboration with Gonzalo Fonseca, he opens the Torre de los Vientos to house independent artistic projects. At the same time, he creates and directs the De-construction project and carries out urban ecological recovery initiatives, such as the restoration of the pedregales.

If you wish to know more about Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C. visit mexico68.org

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

DERIVES OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

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

The objective of the derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which allow us to renew our gaze on the legacy of certain emblematic architectural and artistic works, as well as those that have been forgotten.

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

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

Next meetings:

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

Urban environment, daily life and art

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

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No need to register.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

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

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

CONVERSATION: LA TORRE DE LOS VIENTOS

URBAN ENVIRONMENT, EVERYDAY LIFE AND ART

• Live conversation with Tania Ragasol.

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

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

• Free admission.

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

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

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

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


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


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