Sunday, December 18, 2011

SERIES

final piece

Themes (from top to bottom, horizontally)
1- internet
2- an important dream
3- sea waves
4- mexico
5- geologic cartography
6- untitled

Process
17.12.11, from 10am




4:30pm, finishing the paintings

a little nap

The Opening, 7pm



Rita is missing!!!

The morning after!





Friday, December 16, 2011

Cheerful Times



Walking back home from a night stroll, I had a very pleasant surprise. It turned out the bar from the corner has now installed a Karaoke, there was a laaaarge table of office people, singing aaaall together at the top of their lungs ".......uuuaaaaaaa ... se enciende, coquetea... se evapora...!!" La Chica de Humo by Emmanuel, an old time classic. I could not stop smiling!!!!!!

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time by Thomas Riedelsheimer


beautiful movie

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

17.12.2011


Saturday 17th of December, 7-11pm
Yautepec 103, col. Condesa.
Mexico City

SERIES

This show arises from collaboration, immediacy and flexibility. 
All the work is from everyone,
all the work is the same color, 
all the work is the same value, 
all the work is the same size,
all the work is done in one day,
In Tatiana's garage, with little time and little resources, using simple ideas and dynamics, accessible prices and little importance to authorship, we look to generate a national and generational artistic scene which has more fluidity, capable of stimulating a dynamic and diverse production. 
Parameters to follow: Rita, Tatiana, Marco, Christian, Mauricio, and Marcos, get together; each artist proposes a theme, each artist makes a drawing of each others theme; to end up with 6 series, by 6 artists, of 6 different thematics. 
As a result a dialogue is created between artists which have very different creative processes and that normally would not collaborate. The fact that this event is possible shows great disposition and aperture, something new is materializing.  





Christian Camacho
México,1985
www.battle-plans.com
Actualmente cursa un MA en el Royal College of Art en Londres, bajo apoyo del programa de Becas para estudios en el extranjero del FONCA y de La Colección/Fundación Jumex. 
Entre sus exposiciones colectivas están:  
Five drawings about fire, Lower Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, Londres, Reino Unido, 2011; Interim Show, Royal College of Art, Londres, Reino Unido; The Man Group Drawing Prize, RCA, Londres, Reino Unido, 2011; Lo transparente en actividad, Casino Metropolitano, México D.F. 2010

Marcos Castro
México, DF, 1981
Estudió Artes Plásticas en la ENPEG La Esmeralda. 
De sus exposiciones individuales destacan: Pater/Padre, en colaboración con Alberto Castro Leñero, Galeria Luis Adelantado, México; SOLVE ET COAGULA en el Museo Experimental El Eco; Fabulario, Casa del Lago, México y Muchos Lobos en Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia. Ha participado en la Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo y en exposiciones colectivas como, DRAW, en el Museo de la Ciudad de México, curada por Miguel Calderón; Mother of Hedone, Jaus Art Space, Los Angeles, EUA; Scope Art Fair, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, NY, EUA; Arco, Madrid, España; Das Phantastische Geheimnis des Exotischen Universums, Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin, Alemania. Fue seleccionado para la residencia, Artist in residence at 18th street art center, Los Angeles, EUA y recibió la beca Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA. Su trabajo es parte de varias publicaciones como el libro The Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory  de editorial Phaidon y 100 New Artists por Francesca Gavin.    

Mauricio Marcin Álvarez
Curador del Clauselito (www.elclauselito.com). Tapachula, Chiapas, 1980.
Dedico tiempo a la lectura. Dibujo poco. A veces escribo y últimamente
investigo o me fijo en el movimiento aparente. 
Editor del libro artecorreo y curador de la exposición del mismo nombre que se exhibió en 2009 en el Museo de la Ciudad de México 
y en 2011 en el Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca, dónde se presentó el libro de la errática investigación.
El pasado agosto participó en la residencia móvil de gestores dependientes de Capacete en Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte y Rio de Janeiro, e hizo una residencia en la Bienal de Mercosul:

Tatiana Musi 
México, DF, 1982
www.tatianamusi.com 
Realizo un BFA en San Francisco Art Institute. 
Exposiciones individuales: Mind Fills, en el Instituto Cervantes de Nueva Delhi, India; diciembre a febrero, proyecto para el Clauselito, Museo de la Ciudad de México; Death in the Open, en Galería Yautepec, México y Greeting from..., Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, EUA. Ha participado en exposiciones colectivas como: Nostalgia, Pride and Fear, BMB Gallery, Bombay, India; DRAW, en el Museo de la Ciudad de México; HOW TO (skip a dead end street), Estambul, Turquía; On the Shoulders of Davids, JAUS, Los Angeles, EUA; Moleskine Detour, Museum der Dinge, Berlin, Alemania; LatinoLatino, Santa Maria dello Spasimo, Palermo, Italia e Inner Geographies/Crossing Paths,Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokio, Japón.
Realizó una residencia en Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India. Fue fundadora de la galeria Yautepec en la Ciudad de México y trabajó como asistente para Mike Kelley. Actualmente trabaja en la publicación de su libro, A Subtle Understanding of Waking Perception, realizado en Kerala, India. 
Rita Ponce de Leon
Lima, Perú, 1982
http://vigiliaycabeceo.blogspot.com/
Estudió Artes Plásticas en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú (1999-2003). Concluyó su educación en la ENPEG La Esmeralda. Utiliza principalmente el dibujo en escalas y medios muy diversos para establecer un diálogo, entre ella misma y personas cercanas como su familia y amigos, acerca de su entorno social y cómo éste es comprendido e influye en sus vidas a nivel subjetivo. 
Expuso individualmente He decidido Bifurcarme (Centro Cultural Border, México D.F. 2011), Necesito Dormir Cómics (Galería Vértigo, México D.F. 2011) Diente de Leche (Casino Metropolitano, México D.F. 2010) y Acepto que nada es mío (Galería 80 metros cuadrados, Lima, Perú, 2010). Colectivamente ha expuesto su trabajo en espacios independientes como el Centro Cultural Border, Vértigo y el Casino Metropolitano en México, así como en el Consulado de México en San Francisco y el Museo de Arte de Lima, en galerías como Co-Lab en Dinamarca, Ramis Barquet en Nueva York, Arróniz en México D.F. y 80 Metros Cuadrados en Lima, Perú. Ha publicado su trabajo de manera independiente (Necesito Dormir Cómics, 2006, 2011) y con editoriales como el Fondo de Cultura Económica  (México), Alias (México), Red Cat (E.U.A.) y la Editorial Contracultura (Perú). Ha trabajado como asistente de Dr. Lakra, Adrián Villar Rojas y Gabriel Orozco así como colaborado con Abraham Cruzvillegas. Próximamente participará de la Trienal “The Ungovernables” en el New Museum de Nueva York. 

Marco Rountree Cruz
México, 1982
Algunas de sus exposiciones individuales son: La Casa del Dr. Caligari, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, España; Colección Otoño Invierno, Valenzuela Klenner, Bogotá, Colombia; CONCEPCION BEISTEGUI 831, Proyectos Monclova, México, DF; Extensión Considerada en una Sola de sus Tres Dimensiones. Galería Seattle, Zapopan, Jalisco, México; entre otras. 
Algunas de sus exposiciones colectivas son: Todas las historias son historias de amor, Galería Desire Sain Phalle, México, DF; DRAW, Museo de la Ciudad de México; El arte del hogar, Galería Caja Blanca, en conjunto con Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes, México, DF; Nothingless and the Being, Colección Jumex, Comisariada por Shamim Momin, México, DF; Formas Literarias, Segunda Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico; Conversations II, comisariada por Jens Hoffman, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid; El Norte del Sur, comisariada por Michelle Blancsube, Sao Paulo, Brasil; An Unruly History of the Readymade, comisariada por Jessica Morgan, Colección Jumex, México, DF; Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, Nueva York, EUA; HangART Edition 7, Salzburgo, Austria. 
Ganador del premio Tequila Centenario Feria MACO 2007.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Mexico City's trepidation, oscillation, last night and 85

Yesterday Mexico City's open wound bled, as soon as the earth trembles, 19th September 1985 comes to everyone's mind, and then when it not just only trembles but roars, and a long roar...
Last night there was a 6.8 earthquake in Mexico City, one thing I realized is that my precaution measures where equal to none...I felt the earthquake right away, everyone ran out of the house and I was a bit in awe and overflowing with a sensorial experience as I calmly, after announcing the event to other people, and as if nothing was happening headed to the kitchen and continued making tea, then came out to comment... it is still trembling it has been long no...?
Everyone started talking about how they lived 85, as for me I was 3 years old, and I think I did not have the conscience to live it as a traumatic event, however it is one of my earliest childhood memories, the replica...I was watching TV with my father in my pyjama and with the sausage dog, he carried us both and we ran out of the building.
I went to a party last night, many friends of the same generation, 1982, all of us have some sort of memory around the event...
Anyhow last night I felt something deep... and there was a deep movement in the earth, so no wonder. 

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Organic Eggs

Walking on the street from the store to my house I had an almost uncontrollable desire  to smash them on the sidewalk!...they made it home.


Wednesday, December 7, 2011

07.12.2011

I feel I have been pushing myself on a search since I can remember, not just the profound kind of search, all sorts, mundane. What will happen if? how does it work? when? what? why blue? Always windows. Always sunny. Warm when possible. Nothing I can control. 
This last months I have been very conscious of nail cutting. It has been the main time keeper. Time elapses and suddenly nails are too long again, and there cannot be much time between one nail cutting and the next but I can never remember the previous one exactly.
I feel a little overwhelmed, I try to make a pause, organize and simplify. Easy instructions. 
How did it become a chaos...so many illusions and ideas materialized/objectified...I should just throw it all away but... and then yes... but... so a lot of things gone, a lot of things kept, a lot of thing uncategorized, outside and inside. Physical and abstract. 
And I get a sense that I understand many things, I play the role of the observer, but then what I do not manage to grasp is what it is that I actually understand and what I don't. It is blurry, yet there is clarity. 
My house which has been office and kitchens, abandoned, a gallery, inhabited, and abandoned, a pet center and hostel, inhabited and abandoned... 
One more time I attempt to inhabit my house for a couple of months in the simplest of forms. 
1 bed
5 clothes changes
1 plant
2 plates
1 spoon, fork, knife
sort of... 

also a sort of little chaos...enjoyable processes...time...everything finds its own place. 


Monday, December 5, 2011

Victoria Amazonica


A flower with giant leaves. It only blooms for two nights after releasing a sweet fragance, one night it blooms as a white female, then it turns reddish and it blooms as a male to be pollinated by beetles, then it dies. 
It was in bloom on October 8th, my birthday present, at Zagreb's botanical garden. 


Monday, November 14, 2011

A little too long... all a little too fast

of when I packed my house


of other croatian friends


of Steve a very eccentric character described in detail by Sunci here: 


of a transition from summer to winter within 2 hrs. a completely unexpected snowstorm



of Zagreb's Maksimir park and botanical garden under the rain, turning 29.


of the town of my ancestors in Lebanon and the only living relative, uncle George


of museography

of the largest stone in the world

of getting lost in France with my brother

and empty lots in France... and its gardens


of a hike in the alps... and its crows


of little art hotel in a swiss town, that serves soups on wednesdays


of Emma in the heights of Zurich..




And so many places, so many experiences so many friends, and I stopped taking pictures!!!

Monday, October 24, 2011

Monday, October 10, 2011

Sock Repair - Croatian Style -

"....in Croatia you have to buy shoes a bit bigger than your size, just in case"

Sunci's Kitchen

-I love being a sardine-            and            -The spirit of one eaten shrimp-