ZⓈONAMACO México Arte Contemporáneo is the largest art fair in Latin America. This year, Mexico City will host galleries and visitors from the 5th to the 9th of February, with a twenty-first edition composed of four sections: Main Section, in which SENDA will be present; ZⓈONAMACO Ejes, ZⓈONAMACO Sur and ZⓈONAMACO Arte Moderno.
For this edition, we present a very wide range of artists, covering many artistic disciplines such as photography, sculpture and painting. With the clear objective of giving visibility to all facets of art, we also want to pay tribute to the country that hosts this fair.
Son of a Mexican mother, Gino Rubert‘s art has always been influenced by his roots. Formally, he recognises himself as a child of the tradition that art must first seduce the eye through artifices such as trompe l’oeil and distortions, and from there invite us to reflect. Therefore, for ZⓈONAMACO we bring some of the works that the artist exhibited in SENDA in his last show ‘Cariàtide’ and that contain those deceptions that trap us inside the painting. In ‘Cariàtide’, Rubert moves the focus away from social and sentimental vanities, to put it on raw loneliness. Portraits of women trapped by the canvas, with clothes sculpted on it, whose figures are split by the frame, as if the limits of the canvas were trapping them in the same way as the entablature and the base hold the Greek caryatids (women-columns).
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On this occasion, the sculptures of the Catalan Jaume Plensa cross the ocean. The impressive 120-metre high work, ‘FLORA’, will be one of the highlights of our stand. The serenity of its face in contrast to its large dimensions reminds us of Plensa‘s genius in transmitting calm and reflection, yet the lively and dynamic environment in which his compositions are always found.
The New Yorker Peter Halley will also be present at ZⓈONAMACO. Some of his iconic cells will travel to the fair to add a touch of light and colour to the space. Halley is one of the most influential artists on the international scene. He became known in the mid-eighties as the driving force behind the so-called Neo-Conceptualist movement. Although he uses geometry as a fundamental support for his works, he always insists on his figurative reference: the space and time of our society, its political and social terrain, and the closed order in which we live.
The presence of photography comes from Robert Mapplethorpe: eight of his black and white archive photographs will be exhibited at our stand. The tension of the photographed bodies, the dynamism of their forms, the naked skin of his models. As a whole, it is an ode to the artist’s work, to his essence and DNA as a photographer, conveying his purest style with this selection of works.
A piece by Argentine artist Miguel Ángel Ríos will be exhibited in Mexico City, more specifically, one dedicated to the ancient capital of the Mexica Empire, Tenochtitlan. This conceptual artist explores themes of violence, power and human fragility. After studying in Buenos Aires and emigrating due to the dictatorship, he worked with maps and indigenous traditions, and since 2000 has focused on symbolic videos such as his iconic spinning tops. His work is in renowned collections such as the MoMA in New York or the Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Finally, the figure of the Mexican artist Teresa Serrano completes the proposal for our stand. Serrano‘s plastic work is based on a very solid political stance, which has a strong autobiographical relationship with her experience as a woman, but at the same time links the content of her works with themes and images clearly framed in the Mexican and international social context. Her embroidered leather and iron structures that will be exhibited at ZⓈONAMACO are a tangible annex of her ideology.
If you are spending a few days in Mexico City, come and see us at stand A104. We are sure that our proposal will not leave you indifferent!
