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Special Thanks to:
El Tinieblo Mezcal
Aeromexico
Mexican Cultural Institute
XX Lager
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We hope to see you next Friday, November 25th at Casa Mezcal
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Special Thanks to:
El Tinieblo Mezcal
Aeromexico
Mexican Cultural Institute
XX Lager
By Salvador Olguin
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El tren no tarda mucho en arribar a la estación. Unos siete o diez minutos. Apenas me da tiempo para examinar la banca de madera en la que estoy sentado y buscar algunos rastros de graffiti. Quiero encontrar ejemplos modernos de imágenes como las que veré más tarde en la pantalla.
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Uncomfortable angles and perception distorting images will force the viewer to find themselves in the skin of the observed object. Aggressive cell-like abstractions and realistic portraits battle for space in the compositions. The artist creates an intense dialog between an abstract and figurative world giving the pigments a loud voice while using all sorts of risky and provocative colors. Floating heads enveloped in aggressive strokes offer a sense of otherworldliness.]]>
Siendo uno de los primeros museos de este tipo en nuestro país cuenta con una muestra original de juguetes rústicos y artesanales de las diferentes regiones del territorio nacional, la finalidad de este museo es conservar el arte y las tradiciones mexicanas, mostrando la diversidad artística, las diferentes etapas y transformaciones que ha vivido esta forma de arte en nuestro país.]]>
There comes a time in which silence is needed: where anything heard is absent, lifeless, cast out completely. Where colors take over frequencies. Where texture becomes volume. Melodies turn into geometric forms and background noise disappears to find new life as simple lines in the horizon.]]>
Inspired by the idea of challenging architects from around the world, Victoria & Albert museum curator Abraham Thomas put together one of the most compelling exhibitions this summer.]]>
And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
down by the green river where Paradise lay?
Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
John Prine]]>
The honour and responsibility of writing an art column on Latin American artists and shows in Europe for Las Bellas Artes is less to do with the sophistication and refined aesthetics of many of these artists living in Europe, but considerably more to do with the political and historical weight that some pieces bring. As a fellow Latin American, I know what politics, working class struggles, colonialism, dictatorship and utopia mean to us.]]>
Hace alrededor de un año, debido a circunstancias que no viene al caso mencionar, comencé a explorar las relaciones existentes entre la fotografía y el fetichismo. ¿Por qué nos gustan tanto las fotografías? Las observamos compulsivamente, queremos tocarlas si se puede, hacerlas desfilar ante nosotros –veinticuatro por segundo–, mostrárselas a los demás. Inclusive llegamos a encontrar placer en destruirlas.]]>
A lot of times I have asked myself why we retain some images in our mind and not others. Ultimately, our vision is intermittent and in our daily coming and going, we are being constantly stimulated for everything around us. Our vision captures at every single second an image, a setting filled of details, shapes, colors. What causes these images to remain in our mind? Is it a certain combination of elements? Or our emotional state at that moment? There are very few images that remain with us. After all, we discard most of the images we have perceived. There is nothing special about them, they just pass by, lacking any meaning. But I ask myself if I should have kept the one that just went by or not… Maybe it was impossible… was it?]]>