Categoría: Latin America
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TO PUBLIC OPINION
The Academic Council of the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información de Artes Plásticas (Cenidiap), of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), hereby expresses its concern regarding the works being carried out at the building once occupied by the former Secretaría de Comunicaciones, Transportes y Obras Públicas, (SCOP), in Eje Central…
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La Esmeralda in the Student Movement of 68
Leticia Galaviz and José Serrato Those of us who enrolled in 1965 in Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura (ENPE) “La Esmeralda” were a young, restless group. Many came from provincial cities in Mexico, some came from abroad. We all had great expectations for our education at this national school.
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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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An Instant On the Road. Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo’s Exhibition at Cenart
Rubí Aguilar Cancino Death is a lived life. Life is a coming death. Jorge Luis Borges The main theme of the second International Photography Festival FotoMéxico was Latitudes, an invitation to explore the geographical, anthropological and disciplinary diversity in contemporary photography. Works were exhibited along four axis: Politics and Society; Landscape…
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Ways of Seeing: Yolanda Ceballos’ Transitions
Alejandra Estrada The collective exhibition Modos de ver ran between January 26 and April 29, 2018, at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, in Mexico City. It was curated by Tatiana Cuevas and presented in coordination with Programa Bancomer (fifth edition), with an aim to promote nine young artists selected by a jury and…
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Episodio by Estrella Carmona and 7102 Fantasma Semiótico SCituacionista
María Eugenia Garmendia Carbajal and Edwina Moreno Guerra Estrella Carmona is one of the artists under consideration within our research project at Cenidiap: ‘Representaciones Apocalípticas, Catastróficas y Silentes en el Arte Pictórico Contemporáneo Mexicano’. We visited two exhibitions of her work: a solo show at Museo de Arte de la Secretaría de Hacienda…
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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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The Oscillation of Time
María Eugenia Garmendia Carbajal It was just after sunrise… the clock read 7:19 when an earthquake shook Mexico City on September 19, 1985. It took just two minutes for it to destroy several buildings, taking the lives of thousands of people residing or working in the Cuauhtémoc, Venustiano Carranza, Benito Juárez, Gustavo A.…
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Apocalyptic, catastrophic and silent representations in contemporary Mexican painting
Adriana Zapett, Edwina Moreno y María Eugenia Garmendia Introduction One of the modalities of contemporary Mexican painting seems troubling to us, as it displays the self-destructive potential of human beings both individually and collectively, bearing witness to angst and hopelessness. In images of strange beauty, dealing with cruelty and the tearing…
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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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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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RESISTING FOR LIFE
Alberto Híjar Serrano If Felipe Ehrenberg (1943-2017) were still here, we would have discussed the gatherong resistance against the State’s so-called “historical truth” about Ayotzinapa, through slogans, texts, and graphic art, constantly moving not only in Mexico and the United States, but in Europe and other far-off places. The rural and popular roots…
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AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
Alberto Híjar Serrano Arturo García Bustos died of a heart attack while an exhibition of his and Rina Lazo’s work -organized by Dina Comisarenco- was still open to the public at the library of Universidad Iberoamericana. The beloved maestro passed away at the Red House in Coyoacán; some people call it the House…
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Rediscovering Mural Paintings: Works for Children by Carlos Mérida and Emilio Amero
Guillermina Guadarrama Peña In August, 2016, restorers from Centro Nacional de Conservación y Registro del Patrimonio Artístico Mueble, INBA (CNCRPAM) , began preservation work on the mural paintings located at what is today the Belisario Domínguez grammar school, in Colonia Guerrero, Mexico City. The hallway, the corridors on both floors and some classrooms…