Notes related to México
TERENCE GOWER ON MEXICAN MODERNISM THROUGH ARCHITECTURE, INSTALLATION AND VIDEO
The Good Neighbour, the Canadian artist’s solo show in Americas Society, is focused on his relationship with Mexico since the early 1990s. The exhibition offers an overview of his work from his arrival in Mexico City in 1993 to his involvement with the city’s bustling international art scene, dubbed the “multinational Mexican underground” by Olivier Debroise.
8 CENTURIES OF MEXICAN COLORS - TANIA CANDIANA AT THE JUMEX MUSEUM
Part of the “Normal Exceptions” solo shows programme, La Restauradora (The Restorer) tells the story of Mexico City over 800 years from the geographic perspective of a location at the city’s heart.
SITIO INESPECÍFICO - "SEARCHING FOR NEW WAYS OF LIFE IS TODAY’S MOST POLITICAL ENDEAVOR"
Sitio inespecífico (Unspecific Site) is an essay on spaces and artistic practices in confinement, a virtual refuge in which a group of artists met for the exchange and production of works, assuming that, while the pandemic lasts, virtuality is a possible territory for encounter and action, but also wondering: which virtuality is desirable?
DARÍO ESCOBAR QUESTIONS THE LIMITS BETWEEN THE POPULAR AND THE CULTURED IN HIS EXHIBITION “SOMETIMES THINGS WORK FOR THE WRONG REASONS”
Galería RGR (Mexico City) presents the fourth individual exhibition in the country of the Guatemalan artist, curated by curator and art critic Daniel Garza-Usabiaga. Questioning the relationship between the object and the social masses, the exhibition will be open until June 5, 2021.
MEXTRÓPOLI 2021 – MAY ACTIVITIES
Like every year, MEXTRÓPOLI is an idea detonator that seeks to include voices that come from various disciplines and practices. Architects, urban planners, designers, but also writers, artists, and public officials are invited to a reflection that becomes much more necessary in current conditions. Cities are still inhabited and designed: the construction of culture through architecture cannot stop.
