southern exposure shining lights in contemporary art from mexico
EMILIA COHEN GALLERY & CASTELLI ART SPACE Present
southern exposure shining lights in contemporary art from mexico Castelli art space january 17 - 30, 2019 6-10 Pm 5428 washington, Bolvd. Los angeles ca.
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Contemporary art is framed by the reference of contemporary age in the universal history of the world, that is, it is a period that begins in the year 1789, coinciding with the origin of the French Revolution and the independence of the United States, together with all the advances and trends that have developed in the world to the present. Therefore, contemporary painting is about artistic manifestations marked by the most recent currents in the historiography of art, many people relate this painting only to twentieth century art, although these currents cover more time in the history of art. Currently artists have a great freedom to make art for the reason that, unlike the art of past centuries, they needed to meet certain characteristics to be classified as part of art, while today there is no such norms, that is, artists have the autonomy to take any object and turn it into art. Let's not forget that art has rules and this group of artists uses them. Speaking of contemporary art in MĂŠxico is to speak widely. Currently, Mexican contemporary art is more alive than ever, proving that art exists after Frida Khalo. The artists of the new generation bet for a greater freedom in the subjects, the technique and the materials, as well as in a greater artistic commitment. Mexican art seems increasingly less "Mexican" but more universal, like sculpture, installation and photography. It is time to present this art generated in the XXI century to new generations and to recognize its invoice and to show that art in Mexico does not contain borders. That is why the interest of presenting this group of Mexican artists outside of Mexico. Pablo Llana Artist/Curator
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JAVIER ARJONA Ink on paper · 112 x 76 cm · 2018
JAVIER ARJONA Oaxaca, Mexico, 1988 Bachelor of Arts at Universidad Veracruzana 2015. He is a visual artist based in Mexico City; co-founder of "RABIA press" with Miriam Gomez. His work explores themes of social interest, like public health and how we interact on the internet, using techniques of printmaking, drawing, painting, and video. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in the cities of Oaxaca (2008) and Xalapa(2015). He has been part of more than 50 collective exhibitions in the Mexican Republic and other countries such as Poland, Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal, highlighting “Mexico the future is unwritten” by Fondazione Cini, Venice Italy. His works on printmaking have been awarded with the UABJO prize in the “Fifth National Biennial of Graphic Arts SHINZABURO TAKEDA” Oaxaca, Mexico 2016 and with the third prize on the “Seventh National Biennial of Visual Arts, MIRADAS” Tijuana, Mexico, 2016.
CESAR BERNAL Duranyork · Vitral · 120 x 80 cm · 2016
CESAR BERNAL (1981), Durango, Mexico. visual artist. With a multidisciplinary formation (Painting, sculpture, poetry, philosophy, psychology, cinema, etc.), Bernal goes through contemporary thought in search of new aesthetic languages that affect the social context, showing a marked accentuation of his taste for poetry and abstract art. In his work, we can see a spiritual search that goes from mysticism to the meditative proposal of color, form and symbolist content that defines his painting. With a self-taught background in literature, he is an art critic, poet and curator, he has made multiple presentations of books, lectures, curatorial texts, exhibitions and other academic activities such as diplomas, seminars, colloquia and workshops in relation to contemporary art and philosophy.
LUIS CANSECO Extention Time · Drawing and photograph ·50 x 100 cm · 2016
LUIS CANSECO Born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca in 1986, Luis Daniel Canseco Soto is a Visual Artist specializing in Graphics. He graduated from the Autonomous Benito Juárez University of Oaxaca. He also studied at the Specialized Clinics in Contemporary Art (CEACO). In 2007, he obtained the first place of the Engraving award at the 475 Anniversary of the city of Oaxaca. His work has been selected to participate at the José Guadalupe Posada Engraving Biennale (2009). Currently, his work is in private collections in countries such as Spain, Holland, Belgium, England, Germany, China and the United States. His art has been exhibited in: Oaxaca, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Aguascalientes, Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas, Coahuila, Cordoba, Tlaxcala, Quintana Roo and Puebla, this last place is where he currently resides. Canseco seeks to emphasize the material possibilities of drawing and the expanded graphic, while been awarded with a scholarship FONCA 2017-2018 (Culture and Arts´ National Fund) in the drawing category. He is currently developing educational projects of artistic initiation for children and young people, and he manages as well his own space at his gallery of contemporary art and residencies or workshops focused on explorations and analysis of installation practices. “The expansion of graphite, its mobility and tonal richness allows me to create a landscape that not only remains as an image, but also refers to a past landscape built in my present”.
Homenaje a Rembrandt
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Oil on canvas
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MOISÉS CERVANTES 150 x 120 cm · 2018
MOISÉS CERVANTES work can be described as narrative realism. Specializing in oil paint, he began painting at the age of 14 and began selling professionally at age 23 after several years. Studying with independent artists and at fine arts institute of Mexico. He had his first solo show in 2016. He has participate in two programs for the young artist at FONCA (arts and culture institute of Mexico) and his work is part of several collections in Mexico and other countries.
ANTONIO CHAURAND El estudio de Nadia · Oil on canvas · 74 x 130 cm · 2018
ANTONIO CHAURAND (Celaya, México, 1989); Lives and works in San Miguel de Allende, where he studied Visual Arts Bachelor’s Degree at the Instituto Allende/Guanajuato University. Selected twice for the FONCA/CONACULTA grant for Young Creators (2014-2015 and 2016-2017) Awarded with the first prize at the State Painting Contest, Luis Garcia Guerrero, Gto. 2011. He has participated in more than forty group shows in México, USA and Spain; and five solo exhibitions: 2018: TRY TO REMEMBER, 2017: ENTROPY, 2015:HOST, 2014: SENSITIVE VIBRATION, 2012: HUMAN STRUCTURES. Selected in several events and Painting Biennials such as. Zona MACO, The Museum of Drug Policy, The Pedro Coronel Biennial, The Rubén Herrera Self-portrait Biennial, The Yucatan Visual Arts Biennial, And the Chavez Morado prize; amongst others.
Mi cielito · Acrylic and oil on canvas
NACHO CHINCOYA · 135 x 175 cm · 2018
NACHO CHINCOYA Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México. He completed his professional studies in Graphic Design at the Gestalt School of Art and Design. He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, the United States, Spain, Japan and China, from which stand out: The Future is Unwritten, Palazzo Cinni, Venice, Italy, 2015; Lost Horizon, Nao Now Project, Xu Yuan Center, Beijing, China, 2014; Made in China, Arcaute Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China, 2014; PULSE, Art of the Americas, UICA at Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 2013; 20th Century Cartoon Network, Jett Gallery, San Diego, AC, USA, 2012.; Celebrate Mexico Now, Festival Celebrating Contemporary Mexican Art and Culture, The Glasslands Gallery, NYC, USA, 2007; Sky, Air, Heaven, Ku, Firmament, Contemporary Art Biennale of Fukushima, Japan, 2006; Artistic Residence, ARTHOUSE, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Artistic Residence, FONCACONACYT, San Diego, Ca., USA, 2003. With a basis in Graphic Design, Chincoya’s work is developed in the field of painting, supported by drawing and photography. He assumes the collection of images as an act of recovery and travel through time, an interest that refers to childhood, the popular culture and mythology. His work possess alternative realities, associated with the reconstruction of landscape, inspired by fiction while reinventing stories.
ALBERTO CRUZ La Trinidad · Linocut
ALBERTO CRUZ (1982) was born in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca. He holds a Bachelor’s in Visual Arts from the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca. Printmaking is Alberto’s main means of production. In 2016 he was the recipient of the Takeda award at the 5th Shinzaburo Takeda Biennial. The work of Alberto focuses on childhood and innocence; his narrative is pure and simple. From his ludic and mysterious thread, each piece tells us a world of possibilities. The artist’s main reference is children's illustration in which he finds a personal language to create his work. Alberto is currently one of the members of Burro Press.
TANIA ESPONDA Tinto de Verano · Steel · 75 x 75 x 75 cm.
TANIA ESPONDA AJA Free spirit by nature, Mexican artist driven by the desire to find great avenues of expression, Tania Esponda discovered in the arts a continent of wide horizons to capture her concerns. As an artist, she works to unite her great passions: sculpture, photography, and painting to create works full of self-expression. Each work of art is a unique and unrepeatable way to show her vision of life. Her work explores her fascination with symbols, geometry, materials and the ability to express our greatest desires, giving meaning and history to our lives. Abstraction and its ability to express inspires her to continue creating works that manage to speak without words, reflecting on aspects of our current life to create reflections beyond the form. Her last project has taken more than 2 years of study and experimentation with one other of her passions: WINE, and the way to transform it into art. The art of wine.
JOAQUÍN FLORES The crabs forest· Oil on linen · 60 x 80 cm · 2018
JOAQUÍN FLORES RODRÍGUEZ Mexican painter born in Mexico City in 1989. Currently residing in the city of Querétaro. He completed his studies in the workshops of the Center of the image, then between 2007 and 2011 he studied the plastic arts career at the National School of painting, sculpture and engraving "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City. In 2014 he received the national prize of painting Julio Castillo awarded by the Queretaro Institute of culture and arts, that same year he received the scholarship "young creators" of the national fund for culture and the arts (FONCA), and in 2015 the third place in the Pedro Coronel National Painting Biennial in the city of Zacatecas. His work has been exhibited at the 2nd Gomez Palacio Durango Biennial, the XXIV and XXXV National Encounter of Young Art, Affordable Art Fair 2013 and in the Libertad Gallery with the exhibition entitled En el borde. His work is part of various collections such as the newspaper Milenio, Arte Lumen and the Queretaro Institute of Culture and the Arts.
HANIEL FONSECA Amores de cuarto de baño · Oil on canvas · 90 x 120 cm · 2018
HANIEL FONSECA (Fuente Seca) Figurative painter born in Toluca, Mexico (1989). His professional practice has been divided between theory and practice in the field of arts. Haniel studied art at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, in Mexico City. He has participated in more than 17 collective exhibitions and 2 individual exhibitions in Mexico, Italy and Guatemala. Collectively, stand out: Painting Biennale Lumen 2017 (Mexico City); the Painting Biennale J.A. Monroy (Guadalajara, Mexico); Biennale Visual Arts UNAM (Mexico City); Biennale Exatec (Monterrey, Mexico); Price group Reforma (Mexico City); JUANNIO 2017 (Guatemala City); Auction of Mexican Art in Morton (Mexico City). Individually stand out: “Ero fides” in Faro Tláhuac (Mexico City) and “México Bárbaro” at the Gallery El Refugio para Emergencias Visuales in Toluca, Mexico. His work has been published in the catalogue “Dixième Mexique. Peinture Contemporaine” of the Institut Culturel du Mexique à Paris; Catalog MUVIPA 2016 (Pachuca, Mexico); Catalog of the auction of Mexican Art by Morton Auctions; Catalog “Mexico Bárbaro” by Gallery El Refugio para Emergencias Visuales and the special edition of Drawing by the Magazine Red Siena.
JESÚS GALVÁN Movimiento Interior · Oil on canvas · 120 cm diameter · 2018
JESĂšS GALVAN Was born in Victoria Tamaulipas, Mexico, his work is an approached and observation of the geometric forms in the landscape. He graduated from the Universtity of Nuevo Leon UANL on 1999 with a bachelor degree in visial arts, he has several individual shows as "Early landscapes" at the Heart Gallery in Dallas Tx. "Image and metaphore" at NauHaus Gallery in Houston Tx. Also in Monterrey Mexico at Arte Actual Mexicano Gallery "Epifania" and also"Deseo y Memoria" in 2017 at yhe same gallery. He also has several gorup shos as "Out side the lines" at Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas TX; "GT3" at the Cultural House in Monterrey NL. Selected at 4 Reviews in the Plastic Neolonese; "9 Visiones 9 Lecturas" at Arte Actual Mexicano Gallery in Monterrey NL."Art in Life" at the Museum of Linares NL. "Interiors" at the Museum of Queretaro City; and "Tribute to the painter Alfonso Michel" at the IMU in Colima. Cl. Among others.
GONZALO GARCÍA Virgen de luto (Luto Nacional) · Oil on canvas · 110 x 90 cm.
GONZALO GARCÍA is a 33 years old Mexican artist painter living in Mexico City. He achieved the bachelor degree in Visuals Art at the Institute Allende University, in San Miguel de Allende located in Guanajuato, Mexico. More than 10 years of professional experience have permitted an evolution in his unique figurative style on different historical and social themes. Scholarships: Two times selected by the Young Creators Program by FONCA; Sweden Aquarelle Museum Skärhamn Residence. Solo Exhibitions: Mexico 7 (2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017,2018) Group Exhibitions: 20 in Mexico including several museums and art galleries, 1 in Sweden,1 in Spain, 1 in USA (NY) Prize: Selected on 4 biennale with 1 honorable mention. Publications: One of the 34 Mexican painter artist selection from “The Millennium Viewed by Art”, by Milenio Media that included national wide newspaper, tv, radio and digital media presence. Special Projects: Creative Director of the Mural painting project at the “Conspiradores” Museum. During 8 months, he was in charge of administrating budget, salaries and a team of 10 members producing 300 square meters’ mural paintings of four art exhibition rooms. He has also participated in other 3 museum projects around Mexico.
ALEX GARCÍA LAZARD Barcos · Mixed on canvas · 150x 150 cm
ALEX GARCÍA LAZARD (born Mexico City, 1986) trained as a painter and engraver in multiple institutions and studios both in Mexico and abroad among which include the “Instituto Allende” (Guanajuato, Mexico), the “Taller Xiguil” (Mexico City) and the ateliers of renowned artists such as Gilberto Aceves Navarro and Guillermo Guerrero. He has also undertaken different courses at art centers and venues such as the “La Esmeralda School of Arts” (Mexico City), “Universidad de Barcelona” (Spain) and the “Angel Academy of Classic Art” (Florence, Italy) amongst others. His most prominent art exhibitions have been realized in the “Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo” (Mexico City 2017), “Casa Barragán” (Mexico City 2013), “Isabelle Serrano Fine Art Gallery” (Mexico City 2016) and the main building of the Senate in Mexico City (2016). Lazard has participated in over 15 collective art shows and his work has been seen and referenced on social media and journals such as CONACULTA (Council for the Arts, Mexico), Reforma (main national newspaper) and Excelsior (main national newspaper).
Stradust ·
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AZUCENA GERMÁN 40 x 40 x 20 cm · 2012
AZUCENA GERMÁN México City,1979. The fundamental approach on Azucena Germán work is the knowledge trough nature, either as a concept or a material. She looks to represent the central elements of nature as a response to life and death, the beauty and blossom on one side and with devastation and chaos on the other side with the two in constant motion. Proximity and encounters between the organic and synthetic determine the basis of her work using organic raw materials such as branches, wax, stone, or synthetics such as plastic, plaster, metal, and clay which combine to create paintings, sculpture or installations. She lives in Queretaro, Mexico. Graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the State University of Querétaro. In 2003 she attended a course in “Sculpture, object, and enviroment” in the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2014 attended a course “Old Masters, New Light” in the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Aspen Colorado. She’s participated in several group and solo exhibitions. She has shown in Tidaholms Konsthall, Sweden in “The Shape of happiness to come” exhibit. She was also in 2012 at the “Fabula Vegetal” exhibition at the Queretaro city Museum. She participated in the group exhibition “Le Printe” at the gallery of Action Art Actuelle in Quebec. She was also selected for the group exhibition “Glorias Queretanas 20 siglos de Arte”.
Make it rain!
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SEBASTIÁN HIDALGO Oil on canvas · 51.5 x 43 cm · 2018
SEBASTIÁN HIDALGO (MEXICO, 1985). His work is a set that arises from the interaction between matter and ideology, whose engine is the concept of change through the creative process. It works by clustering individual statements through symbologies, techniques, formal solutions, color studies and specific interests in painting, drawing and objects. He completed his education in Fine Arts at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Academia de San Carlos, Valencia, Spain (2005-2007), and at Unarte, Puebla, Mexico (2007-2010). His work was selected for the "XV Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo" (MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2012 / Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2012), the "VII Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales Yucatán" (Centro de Artes Visuales, Yucatan, Mexico, 2015), the "Bienal Artemergente Monterrey" (Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico, 2015) and for the “9o Encuentro estatal de arte contemporáneo" (Galería de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias, Puebla, Mexico, 2010); and his work has been shown in the cities of Oaxaca, Puebla, Monterrey, Yucatan, Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco (USA). He was a beneficiary of the PECDA Puebla 2017-2018 scholarship. He lives and works in Puebla, Mexico.
Calera
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VIRGINIA LEDESMA Oil on paper adhered to Wood · 2018
VIRGINIA LEDESMA San Joaquin, Qro. 1974 The approach that Virginia Ledesma's work takes, is exploration and knowledge through the human condition and the landscape. Virginia construes the portraiture, the human figure and the landscape, as part of their immediate reality. It confronts the known and present images that invite to a pictorial replanting on intrinsic visions of nature, in its widest spectrum. She lives in Queretaro, Mexico and graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree from the State University of Querétaro. She also holds a Master's Degree in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a disciple of Master Antonio Lopez Garcia. She has had four individual exhibitions including: “Umbral”, “Ella”, “Territories of Light” and recently the “Retrospective Territories of Light” in the Casa Diego Rivera Museum of the City of Guanajuato, in addition to her participation in collective exhibitions. She was selected for the National Painting Biennials (Rufino Tamayo 2018, Yucatán 2006) and as one of the representatives of the Queretana Painting in the “Central Occidente Collective” Exhibition. In 2016, she was invited to an artist-in-residence program at Atelier Solar in Madrid, Spain. She has also received scholarships from both the Mexican Government and Spanish Universities. Regarding her artistic work, Master Antonio López García; the Poet Francisco Cervantes, the Master Arturo Rivera and the curator and art critic Erik Castillo have all written about her. Said artistic work is present in art collections in Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico and Spain.
DANIEL LEZAMA
Oil on canvas · 2015
DANIEL LEZAMA (Mexico academic style that he allegorically symbols and in contemporary contexts,
City, 1968) is a Mexican painter. It is characterized by an himself defines as "naturalist", in which he re-elaborates images of the Mexican nationalist discourse and reinterprets them with staging of strong themes.
It retakes the work of Mexican authors of the nineteenth and twentieth century and the influence of authors of strong narrative scope as Rubens or Goya, and teachers of tenebrism in the management of light as Caravaggio.
PABLO LLANA McFat · Recycled junk food wrappers donated by Mexican and American families that have consumed these products and resin on canvas · 190 x 140 · 2015
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PABLO LLANA Irreversible Gas · Fibwer glass, resin and recycled Coca Coca wrappers donated by Mexican families that have consumed this product · Medium size shirt · 2010
PABLO LLANA (1980). Lives and works in Tijuana, Mexico. Originally from the city of Tijuana. He graduated in arts at the House of Culture of Tijuana. From 2000 to 2002 he was a student of the "Artistic Professionalization Program for Visual Artists" (PROPAVIS) taught at the "Humanities Center of Baja California", with the support of CONACULTA, including outstanding artists and professionals such as: Felipe Ehrenberg, among others. He has participated in more than 40 local and international collective exhibitions. Among his most recent solo exhibitions are: "Sweet Death" Gallery Art Virus LTD Frankfurt, Germany, "Oaxaca from Acá" Textile Museum of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, "MOUTHFUL" at the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca, "I Code Community" at the Tijuana Cultural Center Museum and among the collective ones are: "Grupo 16" Contemporary Art Auction, Mexico City, "Pop Up Experience Second Edition" Ex Convento San Hipolito, Mexico City, "Arte Vivo 2018" Contemporary Art Auction, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, “Emerging to Established” Krause Gallery, Nueva York, ”Cruel Summer” CM Curatorial Gallery, San Diego California, "Pink" Castelli Art Center, Los Angeles California, "Involuntary Memory" K2 Gallery, Monterrey Mexico, "Mexico" Frankfurter Volksbank Frankfurt, Germany, Participation in the project of Demian Flores shovel the Havana Biennial Cuba, "The collage as an object found "Arterial Space, Mexico City, VIII International Banking Biennial 2014 Cultural Center of Tijuana CECUT, Tijuana BC Mexico, "Arrópame desde los pies" Traditional and current floor mats Former convent of San Pablo Oaxaca, Mexico, "Obra Negra: An approach to the construction of the visual culture of Tijuana" Tijuana Cultural Center Museum, "Tijuana Makes Me Happy. Multidisciplinarity in the Border "at the Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles California and" La Frontera "in the Art Virus Ltd. Frankfurt Germany Gallery among others. His work is part of the cultural heritage of the Tijuana Cultural Center Museum CECUT. He has obtained honorable mentions in the following biennials: 3rd Contemporary Art Biennial of Cancun, Mexico (2017), 14th Biennial of Visual Arts of the Northwest (2013), 5th Biennial National Biennial Looks (2012), 13th Visual Arts Biennial of the Northwest ( 2011) and the XII Plastic Biennial of Baja California (1999), selected in the following biennials: XII Joaquín Clausell Biennial of Painting (2017), Monterrey Artemergente National Biennial (2015), Ninth Puebla de los Ángeles Biennial, Power today. Gallery of the University of the Ibero Puebla (2013) among others. Creditor of the first place in the 6th Miradas National Biennial (2014), his pieces are in national and international collections.
El sueño de ser caballo
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Oil on canvas
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JOSÉ LUIS RAMÍREZ 100 x 120 cm · 2018
JOSÉ LUIS RAMÍREZ was born in Durango, Durango, México on 31 July 1981. He graduated from Escuela de Pintura, Escultura y Artesanías ( School of Painting, Sculpture and Handicrafts) of Universidad de Juárez del Estado de Durango ( EPEA-UJED). His artwork has been exposure in various countries, such as México, USA, Canada, Argentina, Colombia, Italy and Finland, with more than 20 individual exhibitions and 38 collective exhibitions, the most recents: “ Hallazgos en tonos azules “ in Arte - Actual Mexicano Gallery in Monterrey, Mx (2018 ), “Nuevas Narrativas Pintura Contemporánea Mexicana” (New narratives contemporary mexican painting) in the municipal Gallery Rosario - Sánchez de Lozada in Querétaro , Mx ( 2018), “ Distopia” in Centro Estatal de las Artes in Ensenada, MX ( 2018 ) and Feria Internacional Barcú Arte y Cultura en Bogotá , Col (2017). Some of his arteworks are part of various collections, such as : “Pago en especias” , “Acervo Cultural”, “Colección Grupo Milenio Multimedios”, ONU, Nueva York. He has made 4 murals in his homeland: " Paisaje Histórico Mexicano " ( Historic Mexican Landscape ), in Librería Pública Central (Public Central Library) " José Ignacio Caballero", Durango in 2010; " Tierra nueva " ( New Land) in ( Public Central Library ) Public Central Library , Durango in 2014; " El tiempo, la sombray el cobijo " (Time, shade and shelter ) in the Edifcio Central de la UJED (central building of Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango) in 2015, and ; " Los derechos pendientes" ( e pending rights ), in the H. Durango State Congress in 2016. His work has been selected in Bienal Internacional ( International Bienal) in San Luis Potosí, Mx (2017) , Bienal Nacional de Pintura ( National Painting Bienal) “ Luis Nishizawa” (2017 ), Bienal de Pintura ( Painting Bienal ) “ Pedro Coronel “ , Bienal Nacional ( National Bienal)" Miradas" ( 2014, 2010, 2004 ), Bienal de Gómez Palacio (2010) , Bienal mundial de dibujo ( World drawing Bienal ) “ Gra¬nova” ( 2002, 2000) and Premio Nacional ( National Award ) José Anastasio Monroy ( 2008 ). Creditor of the Beca Jóvenes Cradores (Young Creative Scholarship) of FONCA ( 2014, 2011 ) and PECDA Creadores con Trayectoria ( Creators with career ) ( 2010, 2003) He is national youth award and State and Municipal Award in Artistic Activities category in Durango.
OMAR MAÑUECO King Pablo · Mixed media on canvas · 120 x 98.5 cm
OMAR MAÑUECO (b.1977, Mexico City) lives and works between Mexico, City and Rome, Italy, where he has been hailed as one of the most promising young figurative painters working today. Graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado E.N.P.E.G La Esmeralda. The ideas and concepts behind Omar Mañueco´s work stems from a profound interest in his passion for history and the process of, how ancient pre-hispanic culture can survive and remix within, a scheme of exploring the system of art itself in order to find new forms. ”To paint, is to write”; just like a “Tlacuilo” nahuatl word to designate a painter-writer a wiseman. Living and researching in Mexico about it´s ancient cultures and developing it to new stories. The figuration in his work appropriates ideas of these worlds to displace them and create a new sort of communication, which is also a concept found within, hereby finding a newly formed meaning as much resulting form in their new aspect as they have from their apparent lack of defined structure. Mañueco defines himself as a novelist-poet-painter artist, and his art as playthings similar to childhood toys in wich that scenes can be seen as a series of distorted mirrors of the everyday, taken from the past and mixed in a parralell vision of the real. This of course does not always have to be pleasant or easy to understand but must possess – above all – a high degree of lecture value, which defines the capacity of an art image to stimulate and engage the viewer.
Hervaceous fish ·
Oil on canvas
MARITZA MORILLAS · 30 x 150 cm · 2012
MARITZA MORILLAS works in both in both oil and
enamel media. Her oil paintings are characterized by images related to death, exemplified by her series entitled Caro-Data-Vernibus dedicated to women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, dated 2000-2004. She has always been interested in addressing social issues such as pandemics in the food industry and all the consequences of human depredation. Individually, she has presented several exhibitions several of which stand out:Requiem Natura, at the Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza Museum, in Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico; 800 ° Vitreous Enamel at the School of Handicrafts of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City; Against Tide, at the Medellín 174 Gallery, Mexico City; Incandescences at the Medellín 174Gallery, Mexico City ; Agony, at the Arturo Herrera Cabañas Foundation, Pachuca, Hidalgo; Agony of conscience, at the Casa Leon Trotsky Museum and in the Metro Pino Suárez, Mexico City Subway Station; CaroDAtaVERnibus, at the Metro Pino Suárez, Mexico City Subway Station. She has participated in collective exhibitions in both national and international levels: Incidents Sensations, MexCat / Barcelona Spain; Mexican Art Drives 2014, at the Cultural Center of Contemporary Mexico; Japonismo, eme Galery; Altar of Conceptual Dead “Culture rests in Peace”, Centenary of the Birth of Octavio Paz, Nobel Prize for Literature, OCIb 2014, in Huelva and Seville, Andalusia, Spain; Shadows, Axis Gallery ; The Millennium seen by Art, Del Carmen Museum and Casa Redonda Chihuahuan Museum of Contemporary Art; XVIII Ibero-American Encounter of Women in Art Mexico Spain, Sala Adamo Boari Palace of Fine Arts; Affordable Art Fair, Mexico edition, 2012; Becoming Another, Museum of the Mask, San Luis Potosí; Vitreous Enamel Color Essence, Mexico National Bank; Arta of the same. The Serious Series, Medellín 174 Gallery , Selection for the 1st Bagueés-Masriera International Enamel Award, Barcelona, Spain; SOFA CHICAGO 2010 (International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair) Chicago USA; A 100 Years of the UNAM, a contemporary vision, University Museum of Science and Arts (MUCA); Promethean Images, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Cooperate Boing! Pascual: The Collection of a cooperative, Museum of the City of Mexico; Juntas y Revueltas, Museum of the City of Mexico; Flavors and Languages, Mexico City, Miralda FoodCulturaMuseum, Cultural Center of Spain; On The Edge, 9th Biennial International The Enamelist Society, The Evergreen State College Art Gallery in Olympia, WA, USA; Second Ibero-American Encounter of Women in Art, Casa de América, University of Alcalá de Henáres, Spain; VI International Meeting of Women in Art, Palace of Fine Arts; Mail Art Show, Homenage to René Magritte, in the Contemporary Museum of Santiago de Chile, among others.
Huéspedes e inquilino ·
RAMIRO MARTÍNEZ PLASENCIA Acrylic on canvas · 110 x 90 cm · 2018
RAMIRO MARTÍNEZ PLASENCIA remembers as a child, his great fascination for the way in which drawings used to come to life in animated series, and his love for making drawings and creating his own personages that were inspired by tv documentaries about animation by artists such as Walter Lantz and Walt Disney. He also recalls creating his very own animated series on paper. The artist was born in Mexico City, in 1963, but even before his first birthday, his family moved to Monterrey, where he studied architecture at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. After working for some years in a couple of architectural studios, Martínez Plasencia left architecture and returned to Mexico City where he enrolled in the master’s degree program for visual arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (ENAP). During the years of his postgraduate studies, he found himself in a stimulating environment in the drawing classes of Francisco Bravo, which returned him to his favorite medium: drawing. But even more so, it was in the production studio directed by the painter Ignacio Salazar, that Ramiro attended diligently between 1992 and 1995, that he found space for reflection and critique that allowed him to develop his unique form of approaching drawing and painting. This steered him towards the rendering of scenes populated by personages from the animated stories of his childhood, but now they appear within contexts of violence or political and psychological instability that characterizes our current times. His works do not attempt to create a readable narrative in the way short stories do, rather they give birth to certain atmospheres and absurd situations that invite the public to create their own stories. As of today, he has presented 14 solo exhibitions in México and the USA and has participated in numerous group shows, among them, the V and VII Bienal Diego Rivera; the II, III, V, VI and VIII Bienal Monterrey FEMSA; the VII, X and XI Bienal Tamayo, the IV Art Triennial of Majdanek in Poland, as well as Registro 02 (Museo MARCO, 2009).
Huéspedes e inquilino ·
Acrylic on canvas ·
OSCAR MENDOZA 110 x 90 cm · 2018
OSCAR WILFREDO MENDOZA MANCILLAS The painter and engraver Oscar Wilfredo Mendoza Mancillas (1959) Durango, Mexico. Born of and educator mother and a watchmaker father, he graduated from the Visual Arts career by Universidad Juarez of Durango with a degree of painter, sculptor and engraver. His plastic concept is located in the terrain of neo-expressionism and his most distinctive sign is the use of relief based on canvas, painted, torn, creased and darn with hemp thread. For the critic and curator, Erik Castillo, these are the arguments that makes Mendoza's work an obliged benchmark in the artistic scene. His work has been influenced, among others, by Matias Grunewald, Otto Dix, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Francis Bacon. It figures in art collections of Spain such as Jimenez Godoy Foundation in Murcia. He has obtained prizes in competitions such as Tamayo Biennial, Alfredo Zalce painting and engraving Art Biennial, Eugenio Cauduro International Biennial of drawing laser engraved.
Copenhague
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Oil and acrylic on metal sheet
JORGE MOEDANO · 153 x 190 cm · 2016
JORGE MOEDANO Jorge Moedano is a Mexican artist who explores oil painting in unconventional surfaces, such as convex, concave and irregular woods and metals. His fragmented painting style wakes an optical experience in reference to perception, time and space.Drownings and fires are portrayed as classical ambients to his work where the main themes are the extremes of calmness and disasters. Jorge Moedano works with techniques and values like shades and light from within the depths of silence. Constantly experimenting with the nature of movement in tridimensional perspectives, where silence comes from tempest, rather than calmness. Currently, Jorge Moedano continues experimenting with a tridimensional effect, where he evoques a locomotion realistic effect.
Untitled ·
Fumage, Enamel and oil on canvas ·
ANTONIO MUÑIZ 162.5 x 132 · 2018
ANTONIO MUÑIZ was born and raised in Chihuahua, México. As early
as age 10, he came to the realization that life was rather rigid, and defined by boundaries and expectations which did not fit his natural instincts. In that environment self-expression and individuality were limited. Antonio found himself isolated, not from the world or society, but from himself. At age 17, he moved to Chicago to pursue architectural studies. In 1996 he completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture at the New School of Architecture in San Diego. Early in his career, he established himself as successful designer, working in several firms. He was again frustrated, however, by the constraints. This pushed him to seek avenues beyond those everyday constrictions and explore alternatives that allowed more creative freedom and the opportunity to experience life from fresh angles. He turned to painting where he attempts to open portals beyond what the eye normally sees. Like the universe, which is constantly contracting and expanding, the paintings have no beginning or end; just an interaction that flows where time is suspended. While studying the surrealists he discovered the technique of Fumage. Because smoke constantly changes its form unpredictably in space, Antonito felt it was the perfect medium with which to explore. The smoke is unstable as it rises from its primitive can to interact with the canvas. It can be urged by the artist but not controlled. By allowing the smoke to guide him, Antonio’s creative process becomes organic. As humans, we are conditioned by cultural institutions, families, and our environment to behave in a predictable manner. We are restricted, Antonio believes, to movement between the polarities of right and wrong, good or bad, appropriate and inappropriate. Such circumscription not only makes us less accountable for our intentions but also less responsible for our actions. A linear paradigm discourages independence and the exploration of new elliptical or circular paradigms. Antonio’s paintings resist linearity and preconceived forms. He attempts to pose new questions and to provide the viewer with the opportunity to step into an unregulated gray area beyond the hard lines of black and white. It is a non-judgmental, non-linear space with fluidity between field and perception. Each painting offers the viewer the opportunity to be both a part of and apart from its landscape. Being both allows the work to be strange and familiar simultaneously. Ultimately, this new dynamic orientation invites the viewer into a zone of vulnerability where gray matters. It is certainly not monochromatic. In the quirky independence of the smoke color is also discovered. The carbon patterns stimulates the artist’s impulses for both color and mass.
Victoria
DIEGO NARVÁEZ · Oil on canvas · 120 x 180 cm · 2018
DIEGO NARVÁEZ HERRASTI (Mexico City, 1984). He lives and works in Mexico City. Diego is interested in working along with the landscape and not only representing it. For this reason, he seeks to paint and draw in the wilderness, as well as in urban environments, reflecting how we affect our reality when approaching the landscape and how the place influences our perception. Diego got his BFA from the Faculty of Arts and Design –UNAM (2004-2008). Afterwards he participated in the Contemporary Painting Seminar in the same Institution (2008-2010). In 2017, he was awarded with the First Prize in the First National Painting Biennial Luis Nishizawa. In 2011 he received an Honorable Mention from the VII National Painting and etching Biennial Alfredo Zalce. He was also selected in the I Painting Biennial Pedro Coronel (2008). Narváez has received three times the support of the Young Creators Program - FONCA (2010, 2013 and 2017). In 2014 he participated in the residency programs offered by the Hafnarborg Centre and HEIMA in Iceland. In 2012 he participated in the Artistic Residence in Argentinean Antarctic Bases. After these residencies, Diego works through specific projects, which derive in diverse series of work depending on the ways he approaches the landscape. Narváez has presented the following solo exhibitions: Urban Trace, 1 Mes 1 Artista, Mexico City (2017); Hinterland, NUUN Art Space, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016); Decay + Glory, L Gallery, Mexico City (2016); Innefable Visions, Cultural Center Of the Contemporary Mexico, Mexico City (2015) and Landscape in Transformation, Anahuacalli – Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico City (2014). Collectively stand out the following exhibitions: Aftershocks: The collective imagination of the 1985 earthquake, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City; Sur Polar IV. Museo del Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Shared Realities, Bank of Mexico, Mexico City; Towards a New Figuration in the Mexican Contemporary Painting. Aldama Fine Art Gallery, Mexico City; The Millenium Seen through Art, Important Museums in Mexico. The work of Diego can be found in various collections, standing out: Bank of Mexico, Milenio Group: The Millenium seen through Art, State of México’s Collection, Kaluz, Mexican Art, Promotion and Excellency, Aldama Fine Art, Amozurrutia Lawyers, Wolf Pharma.
Iztaccíhuatl y Popocatépetl
JORGE OBREGON · Resin · 160 x 70 x 17 cm.
J O R G E O B R E G O N was born in Mexico City in 1972. He studied the career of Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (1990 - 1994) obtaining the distinguished merit of the Gabino Barreda medal, for being the best student of his generation. He also obtained honorific mention with his thesis Volcanoes of Mexico, and outdoors experience . Jorge participated in several workshops, and collaborations with his teacher Luis Nishizawa, in courses about techniques and materials in the Museum of Guanajuato, and the National Arts Center, (Mexico 1995-1999). Obregon has accomplished four artistic residencies around the world, including Centre d’Art I Natura in Farrera de Pallars, Spain 1997; Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, USA 2002, with a scholarship given by Mex-Am Foundation and “Grupo Salinas”; A landscape workshop at the Montserrat College of Arts with the teacher George Nick, in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA 2014; Bennington College landscape workshop with Christopher Chippendale, Vermont, USA 2015. The artist, has developed landscape projects In-Situ in several countries around the world, including Spain, Finland, Ecuador, United States, Mexico, and the latest one in Japan. Jorge Obregon has States and Japan. Since 1991 he has artwork in Spain, Since 1991 he has also participated
accomplished 21 different individual exhibitions in Mexico, United participated in 60 collective exhibitions, and he has presented his United States, Italy, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Mexico and Japan. received several awards, scholarships, Honorific Mentions, and has in various Biennials.
RUBÉN OJEDA El Cazador · Ink on paper · 200 x 150 cm · 2018
RUBÉN OJEDA GUZMÁN Born in Oaxaca, México in 1991. He is an artist and curator graduated Cum Laude from Universidad de las Américas Puebla (México), with a Bachelor’s in Art. Currently Rubén Ojeda Guzmán is the Multimedia Coordinator for the Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca. His artistic practice tries to find autonomous relationship strategies between individuals through production, collecting and teaching art. Rubén’s interest on this field is about the possibilities of individual and collective auto determination transcending what art institutions allow. In this sense, art production for him has to unfold politically in all the relations that this practice touches; the artwork doesn’t end in itself. Rubén has been awarded with the Young Creators Program FONCA 2014-15 grant in Alternative Media, selected for the Young Project 2011 by the Museum of the Oaxaqueños Painters (MUPO), among other programs. He has exhibited his work in Brazil, Lebanon, Norway, the United States, England and Mexico. As a curator he has carried out various projects, such as: La Colección del Precariado (Mexico, 2014 - to date); Ex-lege for the Transitio-MX 05 festival (National Arts Center, Mexico, 2013); From / after: The myth of Ileana Sánchez Marín (Puebla 2015); the artistic research space El Chilar (Oaxaca, 2015-2017) along with Santiago Rojo. His work has been reviewed in Frieze, Iberoamérica Social, Torpedo, Fahrenheit and Milenio. His work is part of the Cancillería Museum, Pintores Oaxaqueños Museum and Toledo/INBA collections.
From the Emoticones, series
EZEQUIEL ORTEGA · Mixed media on paper · 30 x 21 cm · 2018
EZEQUIEL ORTEGA PASCUAL. He was born in Ciudad Ixtepec, Oaxaca, in1987. A mostly self-taught artist, he has taken workshops in Ciudad Ixtepec with Maestro Juan Vásquez in 2011. That same year he attended to the public art workshop with maestro Alejandro Santiago, held at the ecological forum in Juchitán, Oaxaca. In July of 2011 he participated in the monotype workshop with the teacher Ilse Gradwohl at CASA (center of the arts San Agustín, Etla) Oaxaca. In 2014 he took the drawing production workshop with teachers Francisco Castro Leñero and Irma Palacios at CASA (Centro de las Artes San Agustin, Etla) Oaxaca. In 2018 he took the "synoptic drawing" workshop with the master Francsico Castro Leñero, at CASA (center of the arts of San Agustin, Etla) Oaxaca. Ezequiel has several individual exhibitions in Oaxaca, which include drawing, painting and photography, such as: "fragments of a world of dreams" in the house of the culture of the city ixtepec, Oaxaca; "The current that takes us and makes us being", in the Cultural Center of juchitan, Oaxaca; "Contemplations and sensations" in the liborio navarrate corridor at the house of Oaxacan culture. "Monographs of the sea that I am" in the Municipal School of Arts of David, Chiriqui, Panama. Ezequiel has participated in more than 20 collective exhibitions in Mexico in cities such as Puebla, Mexico City, Guanajuato, Oaxaca. He has also exhibited in Panama. Among other activities, he works with Maestro Alejandro Santiago in several of his projects, such as teaching a workshop in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. He received an Honorable Mention in the Grapchic Arts Award on Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo held by the Center of the Image and the Rufino Tamayo workshop in Oaxaca in 2014.
PAOLA PINEDA The Thinker· Digital on canvas · 115 x 153 cm · 2018
PAOLA PINEDA I am inspired by the portrait and the constant internal battles of the complex experience of "being". I use color to improvise about the thing that happens in the deepest of our soul, in the conflict or, also, in the joy and its many possibilities. I take the face as the starting point for being the window of our interior. Then, I look for resonances and mirrors that express those hidden universes. My creative process is a constant search for looking in a different way the intimate breath of each human being. I use any type of technique (temper, oil, acrylic, prismacolor, feather, charcoal ..) so that instinctive hallucination appears and thus, identify that common character who becomes the protagonist of my blank sheet. The result are pieces that provoke or arouse curiosity in the extreme use of line and its tones. Sometimes poetic and careful, and others fluid and exaggerated, I seek harmony in nonsense. I live in love with the simple and the complex at the same time. I decide, with my brushes, to embrace all its contrasts. I believe in complete freedom and I live by taking the risks. I do not want to have the limitation of someone who paints only what makes sense. I work in series. This allows me to go deep in all the edges related to the face, exhausting all means of expression. I also explore at present time, digital media. I let myself happen and I obey blindly. I want to understand all the mysteries: of color, of human expression and those which reveal aesthetics, even where it does not seem to be any.
Retrato · Oil and ink on canvas
JORGE PINZON · 150 x 150 cm
JORGE PINZĂ“N is a self-taught painter, graduated Architect in Colombia. His interest in architecture as a semiotic field, as a structured language, was a crucial to him as an artist, to be able to articulate his artworks by means of universal archetypes. After graduating, he worked as a Design teacher, researcher and independent designer. After that period departs from Colombia and decides to devote himself exclusively to art. Lived and exhibited his paintings in PanamĂĄ, Spain, Cuba, USA and now in Oaxaca (Mexico) During that time the question was only one, to observe and then paint, how culture affects our behavior, and the perception of ourselves. In mexico lived 8 months with Chinanteco indigenous group in the mountains of Oaxaca, inquiring and learning with them about the influence that soul has on the matter. For the last ten years his constant research and painting has been based on the learnings of that experience, applying it to his observations on how culture shapes or models the perception of self in our times. After have exhibited in several countries, galleries and museums, he has decided to allow himself to a more personal experience in his work, creating more carefully and choosing to deal and communicate his art closely and personally in his studio to visitors and collectors to discuss and share the paintings. Actually lives and works in the countryside of Oaxaca in the company of his family and 23 rescued dogs and cats.
RODRIGO RAMÍREZ Untitled · Acrylic and transfer on paper on wood· 105 x 78 cm · 2018
RODRIGO RAMÍREZ RODRÍDUEZ He was born on June 9, 1988 in the Federal District. Between 2007/2011 he studied Visual Arts in "La Esmeralda". Parallel to the school, he worked in the German Venegas workshop with which he also took drawing and painting classes. From his interest in philosophy, he took courses in film philosophy at the Film Library of the UNAM with Dr. Sonia Rangel. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Visual Arts at the UNAM. He has exhibited in places such as the British American Museum, the Sebastian Foundation in the Federal District, the City Museum in Querétaro, the Vasconcelos Library, the Libertad Gallery for the Julio Castillo Painting Competition 2015 and the Manuel Felguérez Museum. He recently carried out the residence of Zona_seis in the Galería Luis Adelantado in which the curator Guillermo Santamarina participated for the selection and the production process. At the end of the residency period, he was part of the collective exhibition Historias de la Materia, which was held in the same gallery. He has participated in the Zona Maco Mexico fair. He has obtained the FONCA scholarship for Young Creators on two occasions, 2012 and 2016 respectively. It has been reviewed in some publications by collective exhibitions such as the supplement of Art in the weekly Proceso by Blanca Gonzales. Or in the newspaper Reforma. He recently made an individual exhibition at the Galería Luis Adelantado entitled La imagen absente. His painting tries, from the poetic and the plastic manipulation of the images, to access an experience of the world in which the media and the effective communication and domination mechanisms lose effectiveness.
Vivas /Shoefiti
ÉRIKA RASCON · Work in progress. 2016 · Women’s shoes intervened and hung Variable measures
ÉRIKA RASCON In the VIVAS Project, Rascón takes up a tradition of that urban tribe that in the state of Chihuahua (entity where this artist lives and works) is known as the "cholos". The aforementioned tradition, until a few decades ago, consisted of leaving "territorial marks" with the shoes hanging on the electric cables of those who entered the territory of a gang to which they did not belong. Although currently the shoes hanging on the cables have several connotations in addition to the aforementioned, Erika Rascon resignifies this principle from an antagonistic approach, involving women's shoes with the word VIVAS written on their soles and hanging them in the city wiring. The subtlety of each pair of shoes that make up the piece makes it possible for them to pass unnoticed by those who walk in the vicinity of some shoefiti of her authorship. Eulogia Polanco, Mexico,2018
FRANCISCA RODILLO DE VICENTE Aviary · Mixed tecnique · 100 x 100 cm
FRANCISCA RODILLO DE VICENTE "Beauty is not represented on shape, it’s existence beholds in what lies enclosed. Suzuki Daisetsu. I begin my work with the intention of portraying beauty from common objects. Unconsciously, I believe censorial stimulation has a big importance to my projects due to the fact that i brake reality into oneiric and organic paintings and etchings. Japanese esthetic’s influence my approach on every stroke, believing that objects are not bound to be captured literately but by searching in their essence Flawless, gentleness, and vulnerability represent “Mono No Aware”. Japanese saying which contemplates beauties impermanence and the capacity to be struck by the ephemeral. Art is the way to capture it. By mixing media, I create unrepeatable images, which are taken from photography and blend them into fine and vivid situations inside the framework. Equilibrium, oriental philosophy, endless shades and layers are coexisting apart form my personal intention.
ILEANA SÁNCHEZ Exploration of Contemporary Society I, from the Mexican Metamorphic series Collage, scotch tape, nail polish and infographics sheets · 58 x 76 cm · 2017
ILEANA SÁNCHEZ MARÍN was born in Mexico in 1988. She graduated as a visual artist in Puebla. Ileana works with the deconstruction of national symbols, changing the concept of the Mexican idealism, breaking with established meanings of the national culture, using different kinds of Mexican objects and strident materials like polish nail, acrylic, aerosol, clay, flags, pre- colombic pods, hollographic papers and infographic sheets. Her collages and art interventions are a constant autobiography that shows a cultural hybridization on the context that surrounds her. In 2013, she won the first place in the Biennial of CMUCH in Puebla city, and the third place in the Biennial of Puebla de los Angeles. She was selected for the Art Emergency Room at the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture in Puebla and obtained an Honorable Mention in 2013 and first place in 2015. She has also participated in the fith and sixth edition of Salon ACME in 2016 and 2017. Ileana is co-founder of the Mutualistas Project, which works in a collaborative form with the community, proposing mutualism as a form of social integration. Sánchez Marín keeps learning and evolving constantly within her art practice.
Cluster of Cubes
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DAVID TROICE Origami cubes cast in ceramic plaster with steel frame base 13 x 13 x 13 cm, 18 x 18 x 18 cm hights vary.
DAVID TROICE, is a Mexican Artist and Industrial Designer. He was born in El Paso, Texas in 1990 and at the age of five he moved to Mexico City with his family. As a child he had a great fascination with the universe and its processes, he spent a lot of time observing the mathematics and geometry printed in nature, and the need to capture that latent reality in his existence led him to start his artistic expression through the technique of origami. He was always passionate about art in all its expressions, above all classical music. The continuous observation of nature allowed him to make a mental analogy of the compositions he analyzed, with the music itself, and that was how he began to play the piano in a self-taught way. Paper has always been a fundamental part in the development of his work. Each crease gives life to endless mathematical possibilities through an impeccable methodology, which culminates in a representation of an alternate reality of its own universe. His love for creation and processes led him to begin his studies as an Industrial Designer at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where his love for art and music grew exponentially. It was at the third year of college, when he decided to move to Boston, to continue his studies at the Massachusetts College of Art and learn new techniques. Boston was a turning point in his life, he joined the metal casting team, and it was there where he casted his first piece of origami in iron ¨Rose¨, which served as a vehicle to start a path of experimentation and practice through sculpture. In 2015 he graduated obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts. From that date he returned to Mexico City, where he began his professional career as an artist. His work is based on sculptural murals and sculpture in materials such as resin, bronze, and ceramic plaster in which he represents an allegory of life itself, of our existence as threedimensional beings inhabiting the earth. Moving forward at our own pace, learning, coexisting and coexisting in perfect harmony within a unified and perfectly disconnected society, which navigates daily between the lights and shadows of the human mind dyed in black and white tones very representative of his work which results in complex textures that play with light and space. In 2014 he exhibited at LMNT Gallery, one of the most recognized galleries in Miami, during Art Basel Miami. He participates continuously in philanthropic exhibitions in different museums, like his recent appearance in the Museum of Modern Art of Mexico accompanied by several recognized contemporary artists. He has participated for three consecutive years in Design House, the most important art, design and architecture event within the framework of Design Week Mexico. In 2017 and 2018 he created monumental works in situ, during the annual PopUp Experience happening, a multidisciplinary art event where recognized musicians, dancers, and artists combine their talent to create an amazing show at the Ex Convento de San Hipólito in Downtown Mexico.
MAX SANZ Always together · Resin and metal · 123 x 40 x 30 cm
MAX SANZ Was born in Ixtlán Oaxaca, México in 1992. Graduated from High school of arts and humanities CEDART “Miguel Cabrera”, June 2010. Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Bauhaus University of Puebla, 2012 – 2016 Exhibition Selection: 2016 – Pictorial exhibition “The sea of lovers”, presented at Casa Mexic, Barcelona, supported by the Mexican Consulate in Barcelona and the Secretariat of Arts and Cultures of Oaxaca. 2017 – Pictorial exhibition “Turner Landscapes”, presented in Casa Mexic, Barcelona. 2017 – Pictorial exhibition “Mexican toys”, presented at Cultural Center Santa Isabel, Zaragoza, Spain, with the support of the Mexican Consulate in Barcelona. 2018 – Pictorial exhibition “Mexican toys”, organized by the Youth Council of the Government of Zaragoza, Spain, and presented in the Young Art Hall Antonio Saura. 2018 – Pictorial exhibition “Pirotecnia” presented at the Municipal Palace of the Honorable City Council of Oaxaca de Juárez. Collections: Philately Museum of Oaxaca and Alfredo Harp Helu Foundation · Universitario Bauhaus – Art School, Puebla, Mexico · Casa Mexic – Barcelona · Mexican Consulate in Barcelona · Pepita Serrano Collection. Among the most importan acknowledgments are: Winner of the scholarship of the Secretariat of Culture and Arts of Oaxaca and CONACULTA, in the category of artistic and cultural professionalization. In 2012, 2013, and 2015. Recognition and award from the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, for the contribution to the Mexican plastic arts. 2017 – Recognition by the City Council of Aragon, Spain for the exhibition "Mexican Toys", presented at the Santa Isabel Cultural Center. Conferences: Guest by the Secretariat of Arts and Cultures of Oaxaca to give the conference “The dichotomy of the modern to the contemporary” inside the Youth festival in art, Oaxaca city · “Seminar Marketing in art”, taught at the Museum of Oaxacan Painters · Guest by the Santa Isabel Cultural Center to give a presentation of “Marketing in art”, in the city of Zaragoza, Spain. Public function Chief of the Department of Cultural Information, at the Secretariat of Cultures and Arts of Oaxaca · Institutional link of the Secretariat of Cultures and Arts of Oaxaca with IMCINE for the projects: Mexican Cinema in your city, Cinema Mexico and Polos Audiovisuales.
Perfect Raphael III
FABIAN UGALDE · Archival inkjet print on cotton paper · 170 x 132 cm
FABIÁN UGALDE Born in Querétaro, Mexico, in 1967. Sculpture and Engraving in La Esmeralda Academy in the Rufino Tamayo’s Painting Biennial, Fabian Ugalde began to exhibit in several museums, cultural spaces and university forums both in Mexico and in countries in Europe, Asia and South America. The work of Ugalde has deserved acknowledgments in various competitions, among them, the first place of acquisition in the biennial of Pintura Rufino Tamayo (2000), a first prize of acquisition in the 3rd. October Salon, Omnilife Grand Prize (2001) and second place in the 3rd Ex Teresa Arte Actual Installation Contest. On two occasions he has received support for residence and production projects from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Ministry of Culture. In 2001 he received a scholarship from the PollockKrasner Foundation in New York. In 1999 Ugalde received the Young Creators of Fonca scholarship and has belonged to the National System of Artistic Creators of FONCA in two of its issues: 2004 and 2010. In recent years Ugalde taught two-dimensional production workshops in National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving , La Esmeralda and was a member of the Academic Council of that institution.
NIZAAC VALLEJO Acontecimientos contemporáneos · Oil on canvas · 100 x 150 cm · 2018
NIZAAC VALLEJO Nizaac Vallejo Silva born in Mexico City in 1986. He studied Visual Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Design of UNAM (2005-2009) obtaining a Honorable. From 2012-2014 he pursued a Master in Visual Arts with a specialization in Painting and Drawing at the Arts and Design Postgraduate program of the UNAM, receiving a research-production scholarship. In 2014 he was jury of the Second Painting Contest of the Mixteca, Oaxaca. From 2015 to 2016, he obtained the grant from Young Creators Program, FONCA in the area of Painting. From 2009-2016 he worked at the Faculty of Arts and Design, as professor in Visual Arts, teaching experimental and classic drawing. His work has been shown in different cultural spaces, highlighting the Museum Rufino Tamayo of Contemporary Art, Museum of Science and Arts (MUCA), Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museum of Querétaro, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca (MACO) and Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos. He has participated in more than 40 collective exhibitions and 5 individual exhibitions. Nizaac was selected to participate at Chitrakatha, International Animation Film Festival in Ahmedabad, India; the 17th Rufino Tamayo Biennal Painting; X National Biennial of Painting and Engraving “Alfredo Zalce"; the VI National Biennal of Visual Arts in Yucatan; the XXXIV and XXXVI National Award of Young Art, II Biennal of Arts UNAM and the Seventh exhibition of painting by “Reforma” newspaper. The artist has obtained an Honorable Mention in the first Marathon of drawing "The naked body" FAD-UNAM, as well as the X Painting and Engraving Biennial “Alfredo Zalce". He has been interviewed in magazines such as YACONIC, INKULT, Art-facto, Marvin, Time Out, and his work has been reviewd by Apocrypha, MEPE magazine, the magazine of the state of Tabasco, the newspaper REFORMA and Media Campus of UNAM, as well as the book “Encouraging the Script Drawing” for the FAD-UNAM Screen.
Huellas de nido
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Mixed media on canvas
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PRISCILA VERGARA 80 x 120 cm · 2017
PRISCILA VERGARA
Born in October 1974 Priscila has always found her expression through art, even though she studied to become an economist at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City her formation as a visual artist ran parallel to her formal studies, including art history and phylosophy. Her experience in multiple workshops with outstanding masters such as Marcos Bustamente in Oaxaca, Luis Miguel Valdés in Cuernavaca, Gabriela Epstein in Mexico City and Alicia Tormey in Seattle has been a path to self discovery that has resulted in the revelation of her own brand of abstract expressionism. Her paintings reflect both her inner struggles and the healing process that constantly takes place in the deep surface of her canvases. She is a gifted singer and a constant searcher of inner knowledge. Her work has been displayed on various cultural venues throughout Mexico in both collective and individual shows. Her latest shows: THE OCEAN OF MEMORYat the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores on 2016, and NIDO, at The Smart City Expo LATAM Congress in Puebla, on 2017. DELIVERANCE Inner life is the engine that moves creation. Searching for the grooves through which our intimate experiences escape is, in my case, the best way to insight and self-awareness. My work is intuitive and emotional. Seeing, for me, is a method to exploit our senses and sense all that surrounds us. I like to see the colors surface from within the painting’s inner fibers. I believe in the tactile sensuality of the unintended, an experience that resembles the moment when you hold your breath. It´s very much like watching myself come to that same surface , unbound and unbuilt in a heap of emotions and sensations that are finally released.The minutes passing between conscious brush strokes produce a sense of time. It is here, on that edge , where the universe is reflected. And so, in every canvas, within each canvas , universes multiply in their own infinite condition.I like to think of the creative process as a series of effects. I don´t like planning. Like every action we take that is only understood after it´s been done , painting is both discovery and exposure. I´m interested in color, textures and composition. Mine is the expressive work and colorful randomness that aims to emulate the immaterial beauty of thought, recalling and containing life in an instant , as if time fell unavoidably into the present. Dialog is my personal universe. It speaks of the world I am, in an instant: the night, the petal, the swirl, the light, the dreams, woman and her geography, her lakes and seas, the embrace, the perfume, time and its song, alchemy and metamorphosis, the deep ocean of memory.Life is my source of inspiration; freedom is my flagship at every stroke where the subtle movements of the soul´s depths sail. The accident weaves itself into nostalgia searching for the lost unity somewhere inside our memory. My work is the result of introspection and the constant search for the woman that lives in me. In my searching soul, the minutes marching before me and the ocean of time that surrounds me… It´s the light still weaving hope, it´s the soul overflown from within, it´s the colorful certitudes raining on the
canvas, it´s the dreams debating in the swirl. It´s the howl of silence, the Earth that holds me of which I´m made, it´s the lines that trace me, it´s the cosmos song. It´s my shadow, the breaking wave, the quiet solitude of water that overflows me. It´s the wait that precedes the encounter, the glow on that resilient burning ash.
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GUSTAVO VILLEGAS Oil on canvas · 100 x 100 cm · 2014
GUSTAVO VILLEGAS (Mexico, 1976) He is an artist that has been dedicating his work in expanding the plastic limits of the realistic painting. Throughout his career he has received various national and international stimuli and recognitions, such as the Member of the National System for Creators Grant, CONACULTA-FONCA, Mexico City (2013-2015); the Young Creators Grant FONCA, Mexico City (2010-2011) and the Creators with Experience-PECDA Grant, Querétaro Institute for Culture and the Arts, Querétaro, Mexico (2012-2013). He has also been selected to participate in different international artistic residencies: “Artists in Residence airMontreux”, Montreux, Switzerland (2018), “Millay Colony for the Arts Residency Program”, New York, USA (2014), “The Why Not Place”, Religare Art Residency Program, New Delhi, India (2011), “Djerassi Resident Artists Program”, California, USA (2010) and “Artist in Residency Program, FONCA- Banff Centre,” Alberta, Canada (2008). In Mexico, his work has been awarded with “First Prize, José and Tomás Chávez Morado West-Central Painting Award”, Regional Fund for Culture and the Arts of the West-Central Area, Guanajuato (2016), “People’s Choice Award, 11th Monterrey FEMSA Biennial”, Monterrey, Mexico (2014), Honorable mention, “Miradas 6th Nacional Visual Arts Biennial”, Tijuana Cultural Center, Tijuana, Mexico (2014), the Acquisition Prize , “Artemergente, Monterrey 2006 National Biennial”, Monterrey, Mexico (2006) and the First Prize in the “Julio Castillo National Painting Biennial”, Libertad Gallery, Querétaro, Mexico (2008). Also, his works have been selected to participate in “The Future Is Unwritten”, Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice, Italy (2015); “CUADRO Guide and Emerging Artists Salon”, Mexico City (2009-2010); “Emerging Contemporary Arts Fair (FACE) ”, Mexico City (2007); 2007-2008 Edition of the book-catalog mART Emerging Artist for New Collectors. His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, in Mexico, India, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina and New York.
ADRIÁN WHITE Matriz 9 (acontecimientos) · Acrilic and graphite on Wood · 45 x 45 cm
ADRIAN WHITE NAUDE Was born in Puebla, Mexico in 1983. He graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2006). His most recent studies include: On the Possibility of Possibility (Raqs Media Collective, 2014), New Forms of Classification and Subjectivity (Melanie Smith, 2016). His work is part of the collection of University of California, University of Miami, and Kahle-Austin Foundation. He has presented individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico, the United States, Australia and India. He has obtained recognition as a fellow in the Visual Arts Production Diploma (CaSa, 2015), IMACP Artistic Innovation ScholarshipProgram (New Artistic Formats category, 2015), Painting Outstanding Achievement Award (Savannah College of Art and Design, 2007), Emerging Artist Fellowship (Global Arts Village, India, 2007). He currently lives and works in Puebla, MĂŠxico and is faculty member of the Visual Arts Program at the Arts University in Puebla.
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IRENE ZUNDEL Lacquered wood on canvas · 162 x 111 cm · 2018
IRENE ZUNDEL Was born in Mexico City in 1958. From 1977 to 1981 she studied Graphic Design at Philadelphia College of Art. In the early 1990´s, she joined a workshop established by Enrique Jolly, considered one of Mexico´s most accomplished sculptors, expert in casting and melting techniques, as well as an excellent portrait painter. Irene remained at this workshop for over a decade, where she discovered that abstraction was the language that she needed to express both her concerns and her inner world. Since 1997, her popularity increased exponentially as she began presenting her individual works at galleries, cultural centers and other venues around Mexico City. She has participated in various collective art exhibitions in Mexico and other countries, like the International Contemporary Art Biennial in Florence, Italy. At this early stage of her career, she built bronze sculptures which portray movement, but also mirror the artist’s state of mind at the time of their making. These works reflect a great amount of emotions and inner exploration. Most of them are monochromatic, mostly rendered in grey, green or brown. Throughout her career, Zundel has experimented with a variety of materials such as wax, clay, ceramics, steel, bronze and for the past two years she began to work with Plexiglas. The infinite possibilities provided by this last material have allowed her to conceive fascinating projects. The artist went through a learning and research process to achieve such results. The result of this process is magnificently exemplified by the works of art gathered for the Beyond Reality exhibition. These are balanced, brilliant and colorful pieces, which present a close relationship to the principles of optical and kinetic art. For the spectator standing before these works, the great variety of colors and light produce virtual movement. The varied colors of the pieces, with their shadows and reflections, transform themselves depending on the position of the spectator. Awards: Italia per L’Arte Award. Vetrina Internazionale Degli Artisti Latini Americani. Florence, Italy. Award for the work presented in Florence, Italy, by the Instituto Italiano di Cultura Cittá del Messico and the Samuel Menache Gallery.