ZonaMACO: April 18 – 22

Mexico D.F.’s BANAMEX Center will be hosting, April 18 – 22, a new edition of 2012 ZonaMACO International Fair, with the participation of 95 galleries from 19 countries, representing over 900 artists.

The selection committee is made up of Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra (OMR Gallery, Mexico), Daniel Roesler (Nara Roesler Gallery, Brazil), Thomas Krinzinger (Galerie Krinzinger, Austria), Ines Lopez Quesada and Silvia Ortiz (Travesia 4, Spain) and Jose Garcia Torres (Proyectos Monclova, Mexico). Pablo Leon de la Barra is the commissioner of Nuevas Propuestas section, while ZONA MACO SUR has been organized by Patrick Charpenel.

The Main Section will be attended by 57 galleries with more than 5 years of experience, which follow the quality standards established by the committee. Nuevas Propuestas includes 26displays from exhibition spaces with less than 5 years of experience, showcasing emerging artists within a 20 square meter space. ZONA MACO SUR is devoted to projects and invitations are required.

OMR Gallery, with a long-standing career in Mexico, participates once again in the Fair, C211 booth; and simultaneously showcases solo exhibitions of Jorge Mendez Blake and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

Mendez Blake focuses his project on the fragility in terms of building and legitimating history. Starting from Mexico’s millennial obsession for it volcanoes, the artist weaves a fine net of traces and documents that swing among archaeology, literature and architecture. Carefully “studies” and “documents”, “vestiges” of a civilization buried under the ashes of Ceboruco volcano, in Sierra Madre Occidental, Nayarit. From a personal reading of the landscape, the artist creates drawings, paintings and sculptures that become testimonies of an uncertain past.

On the other hand, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer proposes X no es la nueva Y for the 52 (an extension of the gallery that targets residencies), with recent work that once again make clear his intention of experimenting with the notion of the virtual and the real. The artworks have their own life; they are in constant change and are built from their interaction with the public. They also have memory and temporary keep our traces, the pulse, fingerprint, eyes, face, or even breath. Undoubtedly, Lozano-Hemmer’s experimental-electronic art finds a starting point in the romanticism, loneliness, uselessness and absurd, notions that make his pieces visually attractive with parallel realities that coexist and occupy the same space, whether it’s public or private.

We will continue reporting what happens in ZonaMACO, where Arte por Excelencias has a booth in the Publicaciones section.

Source: Press release