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Ambulante goes to places that have limited access to screenings and education in documentary filmmaking, in a bid to build a participative, critical and informed audience, and to open new channels of expression and reflection in Mexico and in other countries.

Every year, for two months, Ambulante organizes an international documentary film festival that visits different states in Mexico. With an international exhibition of over one hundred films, approximately one hundred guests and more than one hundred and fifty venues, Ambulante promotes documentary cinema throughout Mexico. The tour seeks to widen the traditional exhibition circuits in the country, beyond the commercial film theaters so as to reach different groups.

As of 2019, Ambulante includes < Arte Abierto > as one of its venues in Mexico City. In May, < Arte Abierto > had an open-air screening of four of Ambulante’s documentary films at Artz Pedregal.

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UGO RONDINONE (Switzerland, 1964)
LOVE INVENT US, 1999

Neon sign, acrylic, translucent foil, steel

In his artistic proposal, Ugo Rondinone uses “very basic raw symbols, something that everybody can relate to, from a child to an old person, from the East to the West.” His work emphasizes on creating an experience rather than conceptualizing or understanding it.

The rainbow is one of the most recurrent motives in Rondinone’s artwork. Since 1997 he has created large-scale signs with simple yet poetic messages. These metal structures shaped and colored like a rainbow, composed of large lit words seem to float in the air. This work seeks to be beautiful and fantastic; the rainbow is also a symbol used by the LGBT community and therefore this piece is about the freedom of loving whomever one chooses.

For Rondinone, this symbol is of special importance since it is a reminder of his long-term relationship with the acclaimed New York writer, poet and fellow artist John Giorno.

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DAN GRAHAM (United States, 1942)
GROOVY SPIRAL, 2013

Two-way mirror, stainless steel

“My pavilions are always a kind of two-way mirror, which is both transparent and reflective simultaneously, and it changes as the sunlight changes. This relates to the changing landscape, but it also means that people on the inside and on the outside have views of each other superimposed, as each gaze at the other and at the material. It’s intersubjective.”

Dan Graham’s pavilions are half way between design, art and functional architecture; they are built to create tangible experiences for the public. These works play with perspective and may even disorient the viewer, in a bid to question our everyday perception of spaces.

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