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Mario García Torres Tag

13 Nov ARTE ABIERTO AT PIE DE IMPRENTA 🗓 🗺

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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Lanzamiento del libro Cositas y clausura

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

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

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

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

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

13 Jan COSITAS 🗓 🗺

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MARIO GARCÍA TORRES

COSITAS JAN.19.2024 – AUG.11.2024

Cositas Bio

COSITAS

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

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

Mario García Torres

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

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

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

Works in the exhibition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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