Categoría: Extended Field
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Foro México 68
Carlos Guevara Meza This text was read at the openning sesión of the forum México 68. A Cincuenta Años, at Aula Magna José Vasconcelos, Centro Nacional de las Artes, on October 4, 2018.
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The Interplay of Past and Present. Hélio Oiticica at Museo Jumex
Andrés Reséndiz Rodea Is it posible for a work of art, dating back 50 years, to offer a contemporary sensory experience with elements of the future? In 1967, perhaps without this being his main goal, Hélio Oiticica (Río de Janerio, 1937-1980) produced a work exploring the possibility of including variable and random stimuli…
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Carlos Amorales at MUAC: Axioms for Action (1996-2018)
Edwina Moreno Guerra It is remarkable for a young Mexican artist like Carlos Amorales (Mexico City, 1970) to exhibit at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). Havig lived and trained in Europe (1990-2004), he returned to Mexico as an established artist. This exhibition showcases pieces from different and even disparate genres. The effort invested…
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Mexican (IN)documentado
Edwina Moreno One might say that now is “the moment” for Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s art. Looking into his life and work, one discovers that political decisions by President Trump against Mexican immigrants provide a timely space for Gómez-Peña’s artistic actions. This Mexican artist migrated to the USA when he was young; his thoughts regarding…
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Inaugural Session of the VII Conference on Research and Documentation in the Visual Arts
Carlos Guevara Meza Read at Aula Magna, Cenart, Mexico City, October 18, 2017 Good morning. On behalf of the National Center for Research, Documentation and Information on the Visual Arts (Cenidiap) it is an honor to welcome you to this VII Conference on Research and Documentation in the Visual…
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Conference on the Aesthetics of Science Fiction
Carlos Guevara Meza Read at Aula Magna, Cenart, Mexico City, on November 23, 2017. Good morning. On behalf of the National Center for Research, Documentation and Information on the Visual Arts, I warmly welcome you to this Conference on the Aesthetics of Science Fiction, whose purpose it is to…
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El Corcito. A critical and multidisciplinary artist
Guillermina Guadarrama Peña Art, for those who make it, is not a pleasure, it is a hard toil involving sacrifices and great discipline. The enjoyment of art is for the peope or the audience, who even though cannot make it, loves it, understands it and desires it. The phenomenon has been produced, and…
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A figuration of outrage
Alfredo Gurza In June, 2015, at Café 123, Suad, an artist born in Casablanca, Morocco, residing in Mexico City since 2010, exhibited through the One Month | One Artist initiative her piece entitled Entrelazados, (Entwined), a work that distills her artistic practice, accumulated through successive purifying and deepening processes in her studious journey…
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43 Times Seven Months
Alberto Híjar Serrano Certain that the State did it, commemorations rise up a notch, developing autonomies and self-governance. On Saturday the 25th, the Santo Domingo, Los Pedregales, neighborhood welcomed the Ayotzinapa parents, and as it has done every month for the past nine years, a survivor from the Acteal massacre, who is enduring…