In life and style We spoke with Andrea Bustillos, art historian, graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid, as former director Karen Huber Gallery, curator and manager of contemporary art, has been close to the artistic ecosystem that is flourishing in Mexico and that this week can be seen appreciate part of your most relevant proposal.
As of this February 9 and until the 12th, the artistic offer is given in Zona Maco, Salón Acme, Feria Material and BADA, which implies going through many square meters of exhibitions, so to make the most of it you have to choose the times and corresponding spaces.
“Zona Maco is quite an experience due to the amount of offer that there is, although there are some galleries that you cannot miss in this 2023 edition, one of them is Karen Hubert’s, which presents the work of Miguel Angel Rios , an artist from northern Argentina, has some audiovisual proposals that he made years ago, but now he presents paintings that he made during the period of sanitary isolation that are very emotional. A great bet by Karen Hubert who supports artists like Ríos, who is 79 years old and with a great career,” said the expert in contemporary art.
“ Fernando Palma Rodriguez He is an artist from House of Gaga who has fought a lot to take care of and the cultural legacy, in his case the Nahuatl language,” Bustillos said. The context of Palma as part of a project that was carried out in Milpa Alta, CDMX seeks to recover power of this native language, to do literary and poetry workshops.
“What is interesting is that he is a mechatronics engineer who fuses the original heritage with technology, and it is interesting because he is one of the Mexicans who participated in the last edition of the Venice Biennale,” he added, referring to one of the proposals that can be seen in Zona Maco.
Among another of the recommendations is Paralel, which is a gallery based in Oaxaca and will be based seminar 12 a house located in the Historic Center of the Mexican capital. “This location is worth knowing because it is one of the oldest inhabited houses in Mexico, there the work of Naomi Rincon Gallardo are referents of what Mexican art represents today,” added the gallery owner.
Deborah Delmar is another of the recommendations for this season of Art Fairs that will be at the Material Fair.
“Deboráh Delmar has not exhibited in Mexico for some time and her style is a critique of mass aesthetics or standardized ways of perceiving art. Before she created a proposal called Delmar Corporation that questioned all these ways in which art becomes homogeneous”, added Andrea Bustillos.
sludge Gallery It is also one of those that brings interesting things, according to Bustillos’ vision. “Lodos is a gallery that has been working for years and what they present with Berenice Olmedo is a great proposal that will be in Material”, he indicated.
Although there are large fairs that are exposing and promoting hundreds of artists, the city’s galleries are also encouraging this flow of people and collectors in other, more traditional spaces for artists. “Is Deli Gallery in the Roma neighborhood, which, although they have operations in New York, are promoting the talents they have in Mexico, such as: Nico Chaput, Duo Asma, Astrid Terrazas, Bayo Álvaro, Javier Barrios, they will be offering great jobs,” he concluded.