Notes related to México

Standing before the expressive forcefulness of Mexican-American Robert Nava (East Chicago, USA, 1985) can be risky. At first glance, the primitivism in the technique used in his canvases is shocking in the conversion of the strength of the stroke and the basics of the gesture into a language that agglutinates a brute force. Perhaps for that reason, the usual tendency of those who face his work is to quickly pigeonhole it out of the academic, out of that refinement that is presupposed -although less and less- to those who fill the room of a museum, to let themselves be carried away by the urgency of expression in front of that pretended good taste.

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art presents the tour of Enrique Bostelmann: Apertures and Borderscapes. The exhibition will be available from June 18 to December 15, 2024.

Bosco Sodi (Mexico, 1970) explores deeply in El día que nos volvimos a encontrar a universe quite distant from his recognizable large format and liveliness production to delve into the pleasures of the search for new material expressions and the abandonment of the chromatic in favour of texture, the depth of the absence of colour and concept.

To Live Forever (For a While) is the exhibition at JUMEX featuring the work of iconic British artist Damien Hirst. The exhibition will offer a complete overview of the artist's work between 1986 and 2019, with 57 works including installations, sculptures and paintings.

Fuego Amigo, Pía Camil's exhibition at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), proposes a story without beginning, in a circular form. It is curated by Mauricio Marcin.

For the second consecutive year, the Ama Amoedo Foundation and Casa Wabi Foundation in alliance launched an open call for artists from Argentina to carry out a six-week residency in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Deadline to apply: May 2, 2024.

War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture is the exhibition of Beatriz Gonzalez at MUAC (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo), which reviews the artist's work. It is curated by Cuahtémoc Medina and Natalia Gutiérrez.

The team of the General Directorate of Visual Arts and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo of the UNAM appointed Tatiana Cuevas Guevara, curator and art historian, as the next director of the MUAC.

Magali Lara: Interior Landscapes is the artist’s exhibition at The James B. Duke House, together with the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and ISLAA.

Luce dietro tracce incompiute is the textile installation by Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball, whose monumental dimensions welcome visitors to the heart of the Museo delle Culture di Milano (MUDEC).

Featuring works by 67 national and international artists, Everything Becomes Lighter is a thematic exploration in keeping with the current times. The exhibition at JUMEX considers the healing power of light and lightness as an antidote to the forces of darkness and heaviness that surround humanity today.

Magdalena Fernández's Mobile Body Paintings arrived at the Clavijero Cultural Center, in Morelia, to breathe with the Mexican public.

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Locust Projects presents Waterbirds: Migratory Sound Flow, by Mexican artist Tania Candiani.

Museo Jumex will celebrate its 10th anniversary after a decade of exhibitions and public programs that have established it as an important contemporary art institution in Mexico.

Rolf Art announced the opening of artist Verónica Meloni's solo exhibition Choiols, la huella del ñandú en el cielo (Choiols, the footprint of the rhea in the sky), curated by noted art critic and historian Cuauhtémoc Medina at Fundación Marso (Mexico City, Mexico).

Mexican artist Sergio Hernández presented an exhibition at the Colegio de San Idefondo with 143 works. It is the most important and complete exhibition so far, which includes unpublished pieces.

The Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato presents the artist Pablo Vargas Lugo in Exceso solar (Solar Excess). It is curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina.

¡Qué viva el papeleo! (Long live paperwork!) is Amalia Pica's exhibition at the Museo Jumex that deals with office culture and focuses on finding pleasure and the potential for playing within the tedious processes of paperwork.

The Tzitzimime Trilogy consists of three films: Versos de porquería (2021), Soneto de alimañas (2022), and Eclipse (2023) premiering at Casa Encendida.

Aranya Art Center presented the first museum exhibition in China by Gabriel Kuri, the Mexican-born and Brussels-based artist. The exhibition assembles nearly thirty works made between 1999-2023.

Museo Jumex presents The Design of Cartier: A Living Legacy, an exhibition that traces the history of the Maison through a selection of its most iconic jewelry.

Since 1999, Alÿs has been producing videos documenting the games traditionally played by children in streets and backyards around the world.

The Museo Amparo presents Sarah Crowner's exhibition Serpentear: Readings between the ancient and the modern, which proposes a dialogue between the artist's work and the museum.

Entre lapsos de historias (Between lapses of stories) is Gala Porras-Kim's exhibition at MUAC that investigates cultural artifacts and the relationship they maintain with their original functions.

SITE Santa Fe presents DIRECT ACTION, a new solo exhibition by Pedro Reyes, in which the artist explores art as activism through a selection of sculptures, prints, performance, and a newly commissioned video work.

Materia estética disponible (Aesthetic Available Matter) is an exhibition that explore three decades of production by Mexican artist Miguel Calderón.

This exhibition at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de México presents graphic actions in public space carried out by activists and artists at the intersection of art/politics in Latin America.

The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) presents Political/Subjective Maps: Anna Bella Geiger, Magali Lara, Lea Lublin, and Margarita Paksa. It will explore how these four visionary Conceptual artists have appropriated the visual language of maps to highlight entrenched power structures; mine social, political, emotional, and personal subjects; and imagine new ways of apprehending the world.

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) presents the exhibition Helen Escobedo: Ambientes totales (Total Environments), which offers a contemporary look at one of the pioneers of installation art in Mexico.

Open call for artists and institutions to be part of the incipient cultural festival ABC Art Baja California. Deadline to apply: December 15^th.