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.

@atelier.romo

@atelier_romo

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.

@sebastianromoart

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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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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.