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With an investment of 850 million pesos in 86 hectares

Museo Espacio of Aguascalientes will be inaugurated with an exhibition and international symposium

January 19, 2016

With the completion of the symposium The drama of the shape as well as the presentation of the exhibition Kounellis. Lightning over Mexico, the Museo Espacio (Space Museum) in Aguascalientes will be inaugurated, being considered one of the greatest works of cultural infrastructure in the history of the organization.

 At press conference, Saúl Juárez, responsible for Culture and Arts of the Ministry of Culture, representing the head, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, said that this project brings together academia, the dissemination of art, art education based on practice and cultural development with a clear national impact.

Saúl Juárez said that both the exhibition of new work by Jannis Kounellis, curated by Bruno Cora, and the international symposium will be a great start for Museo Espacio of Aguascalientes, located in the Macro Espacio para la cultura y las artes (Macro Space for Culture and Arts ) (MECA, for its acronym in Spanish), which confirms the profile of this entity as a center of cultural life in the country, but also to use the infrastructure of each state to bring cultural goods and services to the public.

 Governor Carlos Lozano de la Torre declared that the rehabilitation of the old railway of Aguascalientes, which covers more than 86 hectares, has allowed the creation of this space that aims to be a cultural epicenter in the central part of the country.

 He noted that Museo Espacio expands strategically educational and cultural project of the state, in addition to continue the protection of the artistic heritage with international exhibitions, academic art education programs, workshops, symposia and conferences that will give a new boost to cultural life in the region.

 Representative of Arte Povera, Jannis Kounellis will show in this inaugural exhibition works specifically for this space, appropriating more than six thousand square meters of the cultural complex, where he reflects on justice, tolerance, peace and understanding between human beings, based on items found in the old railroad complex of Aguascalientes.

Along with this exhibition, the symposium, The drama of the shape, seeks to be a meeting place for artists, academics, curators, historians and theorists of international renown, as Marc Scheps, Marco Vallora, Christos Joachimides, José Jiménez, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Stephen Bann, Norman Rosenthal, José Luis Barrios and Denys Zacharopoulus, who will write a manifesto on their vision of the state of art in the contemporary world.

 Jannis Kounellis said that there is a change between the art his generation understood, evolving into a more dialectic vision that has called his interest in the thinking of the other.

 "We are at an important art moment because for the first time both people and countries are wondering if the other can also be right and that is just what I try to show in these works, where the idea of defending freedom persists and bet on people to transform the world", Jannis Kounellis said.

 

Mexico,Distrito Federal