LUZ INSTANTE

06.26.2021 – 09.19.2021

ESPACIO ABIERTO

JULIA CARRILLO. LUZ INSTANTE

06.26.2021 – 09.19.2021

Luz instante is a journey through a series of optical artifacts that create a sensory continuum. Each piece links light, space and time, while encouraging us to experiment with our bodies. It is an invitation for each participant to own and inhabit the works from their own place. The visitor will create space and immediately activate the works, because when we enter a space the space enters us and the experience becomes an exchange, a fusion between subject and object, the here and now of light constituted by spatial encounters.

This journey through light begins with an outdoor artwork whose projections are activated by sunlight, so that its effects are temporary, intermittent, random. The path changes direction towards the interior of the room, a controlled light appears that becomes a substantial element of optical artifacts. Artifacts arise from phenomena that occur in nature, from everyday situations that we do see but not always observe. In the room, these artifacts become prosthetic extensions of the human body and lead us to dimension spaces that seem unusual, but are there, in our day to day life. They are devices that fuse the object with the subject, the materiality of the specular surfaces with introspection, with emotional impressions and, also, with curiosity. The artifacts transform during the journey, limit the interaction or open it to contain us, dose the sensory involvement, first the eye and then the body, as if we were progressively activating our perceptual capacities.

From her experiments with space, virtual sculptures emerge, geometric and illusory three-dimensional figurations that are discovered inside his kaleidoscopes. ‘Sculptures of light’ Julia calls them, because light is precisely the matter of these pieces. The artworks in this exhibit play with the viewer’s perception within different spaces, causing immersive situations that lead to a unique moment of discovery.

With the exhibition Luz instante, Julia Carrillo moves a part of her experimentation laboratory in which she has worked for several years to Espacio Arte Abierto. Luz instante is the result of her studies on light, on how it creates space, how it allows us to perceive what we inhabit and, in return, how it allows us to recognize moments or distinguish certain atmospheres.

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< Arte Abierto > presents Julia Carrillo, Luz instante which will be open to visitors at Espacio Arte Abierto en the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal from June 26 to September 19, 2021.

JULIA CARRILLO

Julia Carrillo (Mexico, 1987) studied Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and completed a Master of Visual Arts at the San Carlos Academy, later on she studied at the New York School of Visual Arts (SVA). She relates her artistic practice with notions derived from mathematics and physics to build an approach to natural phenomena, such as the transformation of space, the movements of light, the travel of sound and the dynamics of fluid forces.

Her individual exhibitions include La luce e la sua assenza at A Pick Gallery (Italy, 2021); Estrofas de agua at Centro Cultural Bucareli 69 (Mexico, 2019) and Geometrías de la Luz at the Complexity Sciences Center (C3), UNAM (Mexico, 2017). She has also participated in group shows in Mexico and abroad. She is a beneficiary of the Young Creators program of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and of the ACT Program (Art, Science and Technology) of the Ministry of Culture in Mexico / UNAM, to name a few. She has participated as a guest artist in the residency of the Artistic Residency Program Laboratorio Arte A. C. of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico (2020); MMCA International residency program for artists of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2019) and Flux Factory of New York, USA, (2014) among others. She was recently selected artist for the Art OMI residency (2020, now scheduled for 2022).

She is currently a researcher at C3 (Center for Complexity Sciences, UNAM).

To learn more about Julia Carrillo’s work visit juliacarrillo.mx/

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FURIA Y POESÍA

10 AÑOS — ATELIER ROMO

13.MARZO — 13.JUNIO — 2021

FURIA Y POESÍA

10 AÑOS — ATELIER ROMO

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The operation model at < Arte Abierto > is based on collaboration with guest artists and experts, who are aligned, with our institutional values and objectives of artistic production with specific contemporary art projects, in their strategies and concepts.

Since 2019 we have been working with Sebastián Romo, founder and creator of Atelier Romo, the result of this significant collaboration is called Atelier Abierto, which due to its pedagogical and participatory lines of work, is one of the most important conceptual components of our Foundation.

Through this program we will develop unique educational strategies and activities to promote direct contact with our audiences.

To establish this physical space, dedicated to our audiences, < Arte Abierto > is proud to present the exhibition Furia y Poesía. 10 years of Atelier Romo. The exhibition recognizes and celebrates this comprehensive and multidisciplinary educational methodology, which rules by the concept of deep education, understood as all knowledge that accompanies us and improves our daily lives.

Working in a space located in ARTZ Pedregal architectural complex, gives us the opportunity to break with the usual circuits of contemporary art and build new audiences and participants from art.

< Arte Abierto > presents the exhibition Fury and Poetry. Atelier Romo 10 Years, opens from March 13th to June 13th, 2021 from 12:00 to 5:00 PM at Atelier Abierto’s space, located on the Ground Floor of ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón in Mexico City.

ATELIER ROMO

For ten years Atelier Romo has developed an educational, comprehensive and multidisciplinary methodology based on the arts. Currently, the guiding axis is focused on deep education understood as all knowledge that accompanies us and improves our daily lives.

The methodology consists of integrating the body, thought, culture and art from constant and disciplined practice, into a relaxed work environment that covers all the requirements to apprehend and create without limitations.

Its lines of work are visual thinking and drawing; the basic principles for soft construction, including sewing, electricity and model making; and the development of a final project that has as outputs an exhibition and an editorial publication.

Atelier Romo has had various collaborations with institutions such as the Tamayo Museum, the Alumnos 47 Foundation, the Jumex Collection, various universities and art centers in the interior of the country, and abroad with the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Also, he was invited to develop a special project for the XII FEMSA Biennial.

In addition to the five printed monographs that it has compiled throughout its history, it has presented multiple exhibition and film projects in spaces such as Casa Vecina, the Tamayo Museum, the Sala de arte Público Siqueiros, La Tallera, the Visual Arts Center of Mérida and the Cervantes Institute in New York, among others.

Atelier Romo has a special interest on the pre-university community, with the intention of preparing them to know how to live better and to be able to respond efficiently to the historical moment they inhabit.

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SEBASTIÁN ROMO

Sebastián Romo (Mexico City, 1973)
 He studied photography, documentary film and Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Sebastián’s work is part of various private collections in Germany, Brazil and the United States. In Mexico, the following stand out: The Jumex Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, the Carrillo Gil Museum, to name a few.

Sebastián Romo, is the founder of the Atelier Romo, a multidisciplinary educational platform for high-performance students, which implements contemporary art strategies to address current problems. The visual thinking academy and the implementation of deep education are some of the projects that are currently being carried out.

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RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

08.29.2020 – 01.24.2021

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. He was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with Algunas cosas pasan más veces que todo el tiempo (Some Things Happen More Often Than All of the Time). Pulse is his third monographic exhibition in Mexico City.

Lozano-Hemmer develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by using technologies applied to art in order to reflect, question and dialog about relevant actuality themes.

His large-scale interactive installations have been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the UN World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening of the YCAM Center in Japan (2003), the memorial for the Tlatelolco Student Massacre in Mexico City (2008), the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010), and the pre-opening exhibition of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi (2015).

Recently the subject of solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the MUAC Museum in Mexico City, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. He has also shown at Art Biennials and Triennials in Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Montréal, Moscow, New Orleans, Seville, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. Collections holding his work include the MoMA (New York), Tate (London), AGO (Toronto), Jumex (Mexico City), DAROS (Zurich), Borusan Contemporary (Istambul), MUAC (Mexico City), 21st Century Museum of Art (Kanazawa), MAC (Montreal) and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), to mention some.

He has received several recognitions like two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau, the title of Compagnon des Arts et des Lettres du Québec in Québec. He has lectured at Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, MIT MediaLab, Guggenheim Museum, LA MOCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Cornell and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

He lives in Montreal, Canada where he has his studio.

To learn more about Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and his work visit www.lozano-hemmer.com/

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER. PULSE

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VISIT LATIDOS GUIDED BY RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER (video)

Pulse is the third monographic exhibition on the biometric artwork of the Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (following the Beall Center in Los Angeles in 2010 and Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC in 2018).

Encompassing four major installations that use heart rate sensors to drive kinetic and audio visual responses, the show misuses technologies of identification and determination to create connective experiences that take on an architectural scale. In Pulse the vital signs of the public are registered and recorded as repetitive sequences that are visualized as flashing lights, panning soundscapes, waves in ripple tanks, haptic feedback and animated fingerprints.

At the core of each artwork, a sensor detects the biometric signature of each participant. This “portrait” or “snapshot” of the visitor’s intimate electrical activity then gets added to a live archive of other recordings, creating a landscape of syncopated audiovisuals that represent a large group of participants, delivering the individual’s data into a field of collective readings. The emergence of complex non-linear patterns of syncopation, synchronicity and resonance is evident in all the projects and is reminiscent of the minimalist music of Conlon Nancarrow, Glenn Branca or Steve Reich, for example, where repetitive patterns that are slightly oset each other create a grander and ebullient aural phenomenon.

The new telepresence installation Remote Pulse does not record the heartbeats but instead transmits them across the network between two identical interactive stations where a participant can feel the heartbeat of the other and vice versa.

The piece was originally presented as part of Lozano-Hemmer’s Border Tuner installation across the US-Mexico border, with one station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and the other in El Paso, Texas. In this exhibition, stations were interconnected between and the Museo Amparo of Puebla. Now both stations are located in the architectural complex of ARTZ Pedregal.

< Arte Abierto > presents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Latidos, which will be open to the public at Espacio Arte Abierto, floor 2 of the architectural complex ARTZ Pedregal.

Following Mexico City’s Government recommendations, we have made the decision to close the Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Latidos‘s exhibition located at Espacio Arte Abierto as of December 19th and until further notice. We all have a social responsibility to put the health of our community before any other goal.

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