18 Feb ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES: TANIA RAGASOL 🗺
<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.
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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, 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.
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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.
