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The National Arts Center opened its doors to the most diverse expressions of visual arts in 2015
December 14, 2015The National Arts Centre (Cenart, for its contraction in Spanish), an institution dedicated to the promotion, research, training, motivation, discussion and teaching of art, culture and interdiscipline, hosted in its spaces for the exhibition of visual arts the most varied artistic expressions, like the Renaissance painting, multimedia and photography.
The artistic, educational and cultural work of Conaculta (for its contraction in Spanish) joined the efforts to accomplish one of the strategic lines of public policies on culture administered by the institution and managed by its president, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, to bring a growing number of Mexicans universal art through its different manifestations and expand the cultural offer for the benefit of the people.
The great exhibit, Leonardo, Raphael, Caravaggio: an impossible exhibition called, in particular, the public's attention. The works of art in the age of digital reproduction, received over 186,000 visitors for free, for 94 days, from January 16 to April 19
This exhibition was on display at Galería Central (Central Gallery), Galería Juan Soriano, Galería Arte Binario (Art Binary gallery) and Galería Espacio Alternativo (Alternative Space Gallery), and was made up of 57 paintings and frescoes reproduced digitally on 1: 1 scale, high-resolution, 29 by Caravaggio, 20 by Rafael (including, The School of Athens, fresco) and 8 by Leonardo (including the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa).
The exhibition was possible through the collaboration of the National Council for Culture and Arts, the National Arts Centre, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy in Mexico.
It was called "an impossible exhibition" because the masterpieces of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael di Sanzio are scattered in dozens of museums, churches and private spaces in several continents, but they had been brought together by using the latest digital reproductive technology, and they were presented in Mexico for the enjoyment of the inhabitants of Mexico City and its visitors.
Leonardo, Raphael, Caravaggio: an impossible exhibition. The works of art in the age of digital reproduction, represented Mexico's first stage of a large program of initiatives promoted by the Italian government, 2015 and the first half of 2016 in all countries of Latin America, with the name of Italy Year in Latin America (AIAL, for its acronym in Spanish).
Among the news of the exhibition, it can offer thousands of different works, one next to another, from one author practically impossible to gather, including those that are simply not transportable, such as large frescoes.
This exhibit was a milestone of attendance at Cenart (for its contraction in Spanish) since it was inaugurated in 1994. Besides visiting the exhibition, the audience could enjoy 13 projections of documentaries related to the three artists or the time they lived; 25 activities for children and young people, as well as workshops and guided tours led by specialists.
Light Years
Audiovisual artist Eugènia Balcells (Barcelona, Spain, 1942) presented a trip to memory and composition of the universe with the exhibition, Años Luz (Light Years) at Central, Arte Binario (Binary Art) and Espacio Alternativo (Alternative Space) galleries, which were visited by over 70,000 people from May 22 to August 9.
The exhibition had the mural Tribute to the elements, a version of the Periodic Table which allows to perceive the print color that identifies each element as well as multimedia installations, Frequencies and Aluminum Sounds, a sound instrument used to create music frequencies.
Also, the work Universe was on display, a multimedia installation that represents the universe as a free body that could be seen from the outside and the film Glimpse the Universe, a conversation between Eugenia Balcells and astronomer Marc Balcells, director of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes installed at the Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos (Canary Islands).
Readings of the past
Visual artist Marcela Lobo (Mexico City, 1959) presented from May 7 to August 9 Readings of the past: through objects that belonged to others, where she presented 45 unknown and recently manufactured pieces, whose production reflects the complex simplicity of the world.
Over 7,000 people visited this exhibition, where the visual artist shared her experiences and intimate memories of her life through 45 unknown art-object boxes, considering that viewers would identify themselves either with the objects presented or the stories that accompany her works.
The boxes are like scenes of a theater of memory accompanied by short texts that give meaning to the work. The exhibit consisted of the series: Inocencia perdida (Innocence Lost), El tiempo pasa (Time flies), Los años felices (Happy years), Me casé tres veces (I was married three times), No se aceptan quejas (Complaints are not accepted), Control de peso (Weight control), Ilusiones rotas (Broken dreams), Creciendo (Growing), ¿Quién soy? (Who am I?), No hay marcha atrás (No turning back), Farmacia boutique (Pharmacy boutique), En los sesenta no había apagones todos los días (In the sixties there were no blackouts every day), Algunas de las Bellas Artes (Some of Fine Arts), Los viajes ilustran (Trips illustrate), Los Temblores (Tremblings), El hijo que no llegó (The son who did not come), Me va a salir pelo de ángel (I’m going to have angel hair) and Juegos de mesa (Board games).
Reveal and detonate
The exhibition, Reveal and detonate: Photography in Mexico, ca 2015, shows the work of 53 authors through more than 160 works, from which a great part has been integrated into Televisa Foundation collection. This exhibit, part of the International Festival of Photography. Photo Mexico, organized by Centro de la Imagen (Image Center), will be on display until January 22, 2016 in Central, Binary Art and Alternative Space galleries.
Reveal and detonate is an exhibiton of Hydra, made up of Ana Casas Broda, Gabriela Reyes Gonzalez and Gerardo Montiel Klint, posing a look at the recent photographic production in our country. This exhibit links different works where photographers from different generations and around the country converge and intersect to draw a complex, contradictory and disturbing map in Mexico
Some of the authors who make up the exhibition are Mauricio Alejo (Mexico City), Julio Barrita (Oaxaca), Fernando Brito (Sinaloa), Juan Carlos Coppel (Arizona, USA), Jose Luis Cuevas (Mexico City), Maya Goded (Mexico City), Karina Juárez (Michoacan), Elisa Larvego (Geneva, Switzerland), Dolores Medel (Veracruz), Fernando Montiel Klint (Mexico City), Nelson Morales (Oaxaca), Miguel Angel Ortega (Jalisco), Guillermo Serrano (Tlaxcala), María José Sesma (Coahuila) and Yvonne Venegas (California, USA), among many others.
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