Two exhibitions
dal 23/3/2011 al 14/5/2011
Segnalato da
23/3/2011
Two exhibitions
Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
The exhibition of five works of Pablo Rasgado in the upstairs gallery, Sala Mont, is titled 'Unfolded Architecture'. Trained as a painter, this series is part of a larger project by the artist, involving found paintings. Each of the artworks is made from drywall recuperated from several museums. Mariana Castillo Deball has produced a large installation in the main gallery, whose rectilinear metal structure unfolds through the space like a giant serpent: a dialogue between geometric and organic elements.
Pablo Rasgado
Unfolded Architecture
The exhibition of five works of Pablo Rasgado in the upstairs gallery, Sala Mont, is titled Arquitectura desdoblada (Unfolded Architecture). Trained as a painter, this series is part of a larger project by the artist, involving found paintings. Each of the artworks is made from drywall recuperated from several museums. These fragments have been reconfigured into flat rectangular formats, which in scale and composition reference abstract paintings. Having previously been used to create three-dimensional spaces, the two-dimensional structuring of this drywall performs an "unfolding" of the previous temporary architecture. These drywall paintings evidence their previous contexts, displaying a variety of decisions taken in the design the exhibitions of which they were the physical support; such as the various colors of the walls, vinyl or photographic murals used, or the fonts engaged in the wall labels. These details are often involved in curatorial and exhibition design strategies that consciously or unconsciously present museum spaces as atemporal, conveying permanence or the feeling of a space outside of everyday time. Tautological and filled with humor, the pieces by Rasgado deconstruct this temporal structure, revealing museum spaces as ephemeral and dynamic, in constant change and movement. Pablo Rasgado, (Mexico City, 1984) lives and works in Mexico City. His exhibitions include: Wall to wall, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA (2011); Cimbra: Formas especulativas y armados metafísicos, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Open Day, Stonehouse, Lagos, Nigeria (2010); Second Coming, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA (2010); Diorama, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico (2009); Principio de Incertidumbre, Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, Mexico (2007); Ejemplares, en el Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico (2006).
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Mariana Castillo Deball
This constructed disorder, allows geological surprises for the most abandoned memory
Mariana Castillo Deball has produced a large installation in the main gallery, whose rectilinear metal structure unfolds through the space like a giant serpent. Supported by this frame are irregular constructions made from papier mâché. Printed on the papers from which these forms are made are hundreds of images taken from diverse contexts: ethnographic objects, tropical plants, architecture and mathematical models. A dialogue between geometric and organic elements is established within the installation, while the textured paper pieces create shapes and enclosures that recall rock configurations found in caves. Castillo Deball is interested in how figurative rock formations are often visually confused with the background of cave walls, creating a "figure-ground reversal"; a perceptual experience she has referenced through her use of images imbedded within the papier mâché structures. Informed by anthropology, fables and natural science, the installation speaks to her on-going investigation of what she calls Uncomfortable objects —the things that humans make, as emotive products of desire, research and imagination— and how these objects, in turn, change us and transform our conception of the world.
Mariana Castillo Deball (1975, Mexico City) lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. She studied visual arts at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM and Philosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana, both in Mexico City. She completed her graduate studies in Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Between you and the image of you that reaches me, Museum of Latin American Art, CA (2010); Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2009); Nobody was tomorrow, Barbara Wein Gallery, Berlin (2008); Estas Ruinas que ves, MACG, Mexico City (2006); among others. She has obtained several awards, including: Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grant (2006) and the Prix de Rome, first prize, Amsterdam (2004). Along with Irene Kopelman is a founding member Uqbar Foundation.
Museo Experimental El Eco
Located in Mexico City, this intimate museum presents temporary contemporary art projects by Mexican and international artists. It forms part of the network of art institutions run by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). El Eco is a meeting place for the arts. It seeks to offer various contexts for new artistic practices and the development of cultural knowledge. Emphasizing experiment, emotion and interdisciplinary thinking, the space continually takes inspiration from its unique architecture and the diverse conceptual interests of its founder, the artist Mathias Goeritz (1915–1990).
Image: Mariana Castillo Deball
Museo Experimental El Eco
Sullivan 43 Colonia San Rafael
Delegación Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City CP 06470
Museum hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Admission free