The second half of the year begins to see the light and with it a new schedule of exhibitions in the major museums in Mexico. With information provided by the respective institutions, Code recommends 10 samples submitted from July.
Eight tables: between the time and the pictorial gesture
Siqueiros Project: La Tallera. From July 4 to October 18
With this sample La Tallera inaugurates a series of exhibition trials that seek to reflect on various specific aspects of the contemporary art practice from the newly acquired pieces of Siqueiros Projects. Articulated around the work Acht Tische (Eight tables) by Roman Signer (Appenzell, Switzerland, 1938), two points will be addressed regarding his creative process from parts of a group of guests artists: the moment that marks the before and after of his work and deconstruction of pictorial processes, where painting takes place as "Event". The artists that make up the exhibition are Javier Forests, Rometti Costales (July Rometti and Victor Costales), Fernando Ortega, Chantal Penalosa, Wilfredo Prieto, Adriana Salazar, Roman Signer, Sofia Táboas and Tercerunquinto.
We must become idealists or die. Gustav Metzger
Jumex Museum. From July 18
Curated by Daniela Perez, the sample will revise the path of Gustav Metzger (Nuremberg, Germany, 1926), author of the "Manifesto of self-destructive art"which he described as a response to the capitalist and consumerist system. In it he raised to produce works with common materials, where the destruction was part of the creative process. In 1966 Metzger carried out the Symposium of Destruction in Art in London, in which controversial performances by artists such as Yoko Ono, Herman Nitsch, Ivor Davis, among others were presented.
What is the first exhibition in Mexico of artist and activist politician, it includes works dating from 1959 to the present, including key pieces and their manifestos, the Symposium of Destruction in Art and the called public Three years without art, 1977-1980). In parallel, the Museum will present a symposium on the extinction in October 3.
The Carpenters
Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey. August (dates to be determined)
From August the Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art will present an exhibition dedicated to The Carpenters, Cuban group -from more than twenty years ago has focused on political and social issues hiding behind everyday objects. Composed by Marco Antonio Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez (and up to 2003 by Alexandre Jesus Arrechea), the group aims to generate through facilities a visual crash to unveil symbolic values. Their works are part of various international collections such as Goerges Pompidou Centre, Reina Sofia Center of Art Museum, Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, among others.
Pentagon Process Group
University Museum of Contemporary Art. From September 5 to February 7, 2016
During the seventies and early eighties the Pentagon Process Group, one of the most important avant-garde groups of artists in recent decades in Mexico was characterized by its critical attitude and rebellious against the state policies and system culture and art of the country. The University Museum of Contemporary Art devotes an exhibition to the collective, proposing a reinterpretation of both its artistic production and its internal dynamics work in different moments of its career from the study and presentation of documents of Pentagon Process Fund, that is part of the documentary acquis of Arkehia Documentation Centre and MUAC collection, in collaboration with institutional and private collections.
Initially as part of the group were: Felipe Ehrenberg, Carlos Fink Jose Antonio Hernández Amezcua and Victor Muñoz following the invitation to participate in the X Biennial of ParisYoung Artists of 1977. Subsequently Carlos Aguirre Miguel Ehrenberg, and Lourdes Grobet Rowena Morales joined the group.
Experimental El Eco Museo. From September 10 to November 29
The Eco Experimental Museum will present Manifesto, a piece made by Canadian artist Terence Gower where the music and architecture are juxtaposed, two expressions that employ rhythm, texture, harmony, ratio and dynamic. Interested in rereading modern architecture, Gower makes use of the "Manifesto of emotional architecture" written by Mathias Goeritz in 1954, transforming his words by helping a composer and a gospel singer, making him an artistic statement in the present.
Meeting between curators and artists from Latin America: Enrique Ramirez
Amparo Museum. From October 17
Amparo Museum will show from October a series of projects done specifically by various young artists from Latin America. The first exhibition of the meeting is from the Chilean artist Enrique Ramirez, who through his video installations and photographs addresses, from a poetic look, issues concerning contemporary dystopias and historical memory, especially from the Chilean dictatorship. For this first presentation, the curator has not yet been announced.
Crops
Arte Alameda Laboratory. From November 18 until April, 2016
The work of Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza has been characterized by the close relationship between science, art and the ways in which we imagine the future. In November, the Alameda Art Laboratory will exhibit the sample Crops that gathers three projects of the artist that have been the vertebral backbone of his research developed in recent decades: Urban parasites (2006-08), Nomadic Plants (2008-13) and auto photosynthetic Plants (2013-14). Presented in 2014 at Telephone Space Foundation in Peru, the exhibition analyzes the problem of water in some cities like Lima and Mexico City, while seeking generate a reflection on the relationship between urban space with aquifers mantles and memory of extinct rivers.
Gerzo, Gerzo, Gerzo,
Tlatelolco University Cultural Center. From October 17 to January 2016
In the context of the centenary of the birth of the surrealist and abstract artist Gunther Gerzo (Mexico City,1915 to 2000), the University Board of Collections of the UNAM University Cultural Center will present Gerzo, Gerzo, Gerzo, a coordinated exhibition by James Oles in which will develop projects of curators, artists and researchers from Mexico, United States and Brazil to conduct innovative lectures on his work and his connection between the pre-Hispanic, modern and contemporary.
Beyond a retrospective, it is an exercise in provocation and contemporary appropriation of his work.
Pseudomatismos
University Museum of Contemporary Art. From October 25 to March 27, 2016
In October, the University Museum of Contemporary Art will devote an exhibition to the work of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Mexican artist who has been distinguished by generating cross between art, science, technology, architecture and performance through interactive installations and ephemeral interventions in public places. By taking an active role to the viewer in his pieces, seeking to provide platforms for self-representation and encourage reflection on various levels, from the conception of art, language or technology identity.
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