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MNEMOSYNE

29.11.2019 – 29.03.2020

Paolo Montiel Coppa was born in the City of Cuernavaca, Mexico in 1977. His interest in researching light, earth sciences and astronomy led him to study Physics at the UAEM (Autonomous University of the State of Morelos). Later he studied Art Theory at the Morelense Center for Arts and Art History at La Salle.

Self-taught musician who fuses different musical genres, such as jazz, rock and African music. His concern for the study of music took him to audio engineering at Opus 440, where he made direct sound and musical score for short films.

His research is focused on the study and properties of color and how these are perceived by the human body, as well as its reflection in memory through light.

Montiel Coppa is co-founder of the Alberca Artes interdisciplinary arts center and Vistlán Multimedia studio where he begins to incorporate his first digital lighting systems for art and architecture projects. Subsequently he moved to Mexico City to work full-time on digital lighting projects in Mexico and Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic and Venezuela).

Currently he is a collaborator at Cocolab where he is involved on the development of lighting installations in permanent culturetaintment projects and shows, among which he was involved with the lighting design for the Mexican Pavillion at the Expo Milan 2015. He also worked in projects like Kukulkan Nights at the Chichén Itzá pyramids in the Yucatan Peninsula and in the lighting installations White Canvas, Cycles and Outside, the latter presented at the Day for Night festival in Houston, Texas.

He is a senior lighting designer at Nerd Light & Media where he has worked as an art-handler specialized in digital lighting systems for permanent applications in art and architecture, working in the technical direction with artists such as Kurt Hentschlager with ZEE shown at the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda during Ars Electrónica Mexico 2010, AntiVJ during the Oaxaca Project festival with the installation The Ark and James Turrell in the lighting and control direction of different permanent projects in Mexico such as Pasajes de Luz (2019) in the Museum Jumex of the CDMX, Encounter (2015) of the Skyspaces series for the Botanical Garden of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Agua de Luz (2012) in the Yucatan jungle, Tree of Light (2011) at Hacienda San Pedro Ochil, Yucatán.

He is also a member of the collective of artists and technologists Mayan Warrior, with whom he has carried out various art and music projects at Burning Man in Black Rock, Nevada.

He has been commissioned in different music festivals designing lighting installations such as MUTEK, Ondalinda x Careyes and BLACK by Matte Projects in New York.

His experience as a programmer and lighting designer has led him today to his artistic creation which focuses on installations of in situ kinetic light art.

He currently lives in Mexico City where he has his studio and showroom of light art.

To learn more about Paolo Montiel Coppa’s work aka TANSEN visit www.paolomontiel.com

MNEMOSYNE

Mnemosyne is a large-scale light art and sound installation. It is a giant walkable kaleidoscope that offers the public an immersive experience generated by one of the simplest principles of optics: the reflection of light.

This installation is made by mirror finished stainless steel structures with LED lighting, together with sound and a video-projection system, form a triangular kaleidoscope 15m long by 4m high.

As you walk inside these infinite reflections of light, you discover thousands of geometric shapes combined with changing colors that blend, giving the impression of floating in space. The visual contents accompanied by music, light and sound design are constantly changing.

Through this installation, Paolo Montiel Coppa, wants to create a physical space fed with light movements that allows the public to activate their memory connecting them with their creativity and being able to evoke different emotions that guide their attention towards a contemplative-emotional-meditative moment.

presents for the first time the light installation Mnemosyne by Mexican artist Paolo Montiel Coppa, which will be on display and open to the public on the ground floor of the architectural complex of Artz Pedregal from November 29th, 2019 to March 29th, 2020.

Mnemosyne is manufactured by Metalglez.

SCHEDULES: TUESDAY TO THURSDAY FROM 1:00 PM TO 8:00 PM. FRIDAY TO SUNDAY FROM 11:00 TO 20:30 HRS. MONDAY WILL REMAIN CLOSED.

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ILLEGAL ART

09.14.2019 – 11.30.2019

Illegal Art was founded in 2001 in New York City by artists Otis Kriegel and Michael McDevitt. This collective’s goal is to create participatory-based public art that inspires self-reflection, thought and human connection. Each piece is presented or distributed in such a way that the public’s involvement is straightforward and encouraged. Their projects have been installed is the United States, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

In November 2018, the collective’s co-founder Otis Kriegel spoke about Illegal Art’s work on TEDx Manhattan Beach. Their work has been published in several catalogs throughout the United States and Europe.

On September 2019, Illegal Art’s founders Otis Kriegel and Michael McDevitt will present for the first time their projects in Mexico City:

• Last Word

• Suggestion Box

• What Color Are You ?

• Measure Up (An installation commissioned by < Arte Abierto >)

The four public art pieces will be inside the premises of Artz Pedregal. Each one seeks the public’s participation as an experience with a creative-collective effect.

For more information, visit www.illegalart.org or on Instagram @illegalart2001.

THE LAST WORD

There are always things left unsaid. The perfect ending to a conversation with a stranger. A clever comeback in a debate with a colleague at work. A farewell bid to a loved one. Missed opportunities to get in the last word.

What do you wish you had said? Now is the time to say it.

The Last Word, a project by the public art collaborative Illegal Art, provides a private moment to recapture what was never uttered. Hundreds of tightly rolled pieces of paper, dyed red on one end and left untouched on the other are placed white-side out within the honeycomb chambers of a cardboard wall. Participants remove one of the pieces of paper, write down their “last word”, and then replace the paper with the red side exposed. The public may write their own unfinished business or read how other people’s conversations might have ended.

Everyone is free to take part in this piece or to just read other people’s thoughts, to share, to write, to reflect collectively. The words respect the individuality but they also reveal that the experience is greater when there is collective participation. The artwork grows with the public’s contribution.

These exercises may perhaps bring us closer to understanding concepts such as happiness, sadness, desires… a moment of self-reflection one can find in art.

The Last Word will be activated from September 14th to October 12th, 2019. The piece will remain until November 9th, 2019 at Artz Pedregal.

SUGGESTION BOX

A cardboard box (45CM X 45CM X 45CM), painted in white with the word “SUGGESTION” printed in black letters on all four sides. On the lid there is a small slit where the public can insert their suggestions.

The box is transported together with a clipboard, paper and pens. The public is asked to make suggestions, propose any idea or thought of any kind, with no limitation or guide, with only the box’s invitation to participate.

Once the box is full with suggestions, they are compiled and many of them are published on < Arte Abierto > social media, as anonymous thoughts.

Suggestion Box has been carried by volunteers through three continents, collecting suggestions from tens of thousands of people, in many languages. In 2005, Chronicle Books published a collection of suggestions made in New York City called Suggestion.

< Arte Abierto > will activate Suggestion Box from September 20th to October 12th at different locations in Mexico City.

WHAT COLOR ARE YOU?

What Color Are You? provides individuals the opportunity to share the color that they feel represents essentially who they are. No matter where they are from or where they are going, participants will define who they are and how they want to be seen with a simple square of color of their creation.

Day by day the work keeps expanding, creating a mosaic full of different color tones that represent hundreds of people, all of which are linked by a physical space. As a result, both participants and spectators can admire the diversity of personal expressions.

< Arte Abierto > invites you to participate in What Color Are You? from October 5th to November 9th. The piece will remain on display until November 29th, 2019 at Artz Pedregal.

MEASURE UP

Measure Up is a new proposal. The intention behind this piece commissioned by < Arte Abierto > is once again to promote the public’s participation.

Several wooden frames will have the name of different personalities from the world of culture, science, and history written on them, and depending on their height, the public will be able to identify with them, thus creating a connection with famous individuals by playing with the idea of body heights as a sort of togetherness.

Measure Up will be on display from October 12th to November 30th, 2019 at Artz Pedregal.

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SQUIDSOUP

17.07.2019 – 29.09.2019

Squidsoup is an international group of artists, researchers, technologists and designers headquartered in the United Kingdom that works with digital and interactive media experiences. The work combines physical and dynamic digital spaces with novel and intuitive forms of interaction to produce immersive, responsive and beguiling experiences.

They have exhibited their work worldwide at a broad range of events and locations including: Canary Wharf (United Kingdom 2017, 2019), Salisbury Cathedral (United Kingdom 2015, 2018), Burning Man (United States 2018), Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew (United Kingdom 2015, 2016, 2018) , Sydney Opera House (Australia 2016), SIGGRAPH (United States 2001, 2010, 2016), Usina del Arte (Buenos Aires 2016), Wales Millenium Centre (Wales 2016), Adelaide Festival (Australia 2015), Visual Art Week (Mexico 2015), Mapping Festival (Switzerland 2013), TIFF (Canada 2013), Sundance (United States 2011), Scopitone (France 2011), Ars Electronica Festival and Museum (Australia 2010), Glastonbury Music Festival (United Kingdom 2010), Kinetica Art Fair (United Kingdom 2010), ISEA (Japan 2002 and Northern Ireland 2009), and Late at TATE Britain (United Kingdom 2006, 2007).

Squidsoup’s work can be experienced online at www.squidsoup.org and in shared spaces, physical and virtual installations, in games and software tools.

SUBMERGENCE

This installation presented by < Arte Abierto > created by the collective Squidsoup consists of a large scale immersive and dynamic experience, composed by thousands of points of suspended light to create feelings of presence and movement within a physical space.

Submergence transforms the < Arte Abierto > space into a hybrid environment where virtual and physical worlds coincide. As you enter, you are walking into a space occupied by both real and virtual components, and you can affect both.

The piece moves through several movements, creating a semi-linear 12 minute piece. In its entirety, an abstract narrative is formed with a gradual increase in tension, building up to a final climax. Each movement has its own elements, atmosphere and levels of reaction. They are also all open to one’s own interpretation.

Submergence (2016) is an incremental development of the original Submergence (2013).

Submergence se ha mostrado en más de 40 espacios y eventos en seis continentes incluyendo:

Canary Wharf – 2019

Burning Man – 2018

Scottsdale Museum of Modern Art – 2017

Usina del Arte – 2016

SIGGRAPH – 2016

Adelaide Festival – 2015

Visual Art Week – 2015

Mapping Festival – 2013

Galleri ROM – 2013

Submergence is a Squidsoup project, made by Anthony Rowe, Gaz Bushell, Liam Birtles, Ollie Bown, Chris Bennewith.

Submergence will be on display from July 7th to September 29th, 2019 on the ground floor at Artz Pedregal.

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COCOLAB

30.11.2018 – 30.01.2019

Cocolab is a collective that seeks to create positive inspirational experiences, creatively combining art, technology, and entertainment.
To develop their project, they make use of different resources: video, audio, interactive technologies, special effects, lighting, stage design, industrial design, content, programming and show control.
They collaborate with creators, talents and experts in very diverse fields; this enriches them in a very particular way and as a result they are able to develop innovative projects.

WHITE CANVAS

Es una experiencia inmersiva de luz y sonido que lleva a las personas en un viaje a través de los sentido, estimulando su imaginación para descubrir su potencial creativo.

Con una sofisticada programación de más de 300 luces y un diseño de audio envolvente con piezas musicales originales, White Canvas es una plataforma donde convergen el arte y la tecnología.

White Canvas se ha presentado en distintas ciudades y es una de las instalaciones originales más exitosas de Cocolab, inspirando positivamente a otras personas dentro y fuera de México para realizar proyectos y colaboraciones que exploren nuevos paradigmas de creación.

< Arte Abierto > abre al público esta instalación de Cocolab del 30 de noviembre, 2018 al 30 de enero, 2019 en la planta baja de Artz Pedregal.