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Rediscovering a legacy
ESTANCIA FEMSA-CASA LUIS BARRAGÁN
Estancia FEMSA is a cultural and artistic platform sponsored by Casa Luis Barragán with FEMSA Collection’s support. This initiative offers expositions, interventions, perfomances, academic and pedagogic activities and publications that interweave dialogue with the historical contexto that the house offers and Luis Barragán’s own legacy aone of the most distinguished architects of the 20th century.
Estancia FEMSA is a cultural and artistic platform sponsored by Casa Luis Barragán with FEMSA Collection support, that has been curated by Eugenia Braniff and Patrick Charpenel.
The 2017 program included 3 expositions in addition to activations and academic activities. In our “Dada Zúrich” we exhibited a collection of 30 documents that emerged in Zurich during the early years of Dada. On the other hand, Christodoulos Panayiotou, a chipriota artist, was in charge of “Mármol Rosa”; he intended to recontextualize and redefine Luis Barragan’s personal and domestic elements. The third exhibition presented Juan José Gurrola’s “Monoblock” (1969-1972); it’s a FEMSA Collection piece that consists of a group of poems, photographs, a bilingual performance and a found object sculpture.
The activations consisted in exhibiting the oeuvres Cuban artist Sandú Darie’s “Estructura espacial transformable” (ca. 1959) and the other one was Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles’s “De la instalación Fontes” (1992); both of them belong to FEMSA Collection.
German Cueto’s “Comedia sin Solución” was also presented; this performance offered the audience a new dimension on the artist that contributed to the development of the national aesthetic after the Mexican Revolution. Other academic activities were also carried out such as the book presentation of “Escritos sobre arte: Marius de Zayas”.
FACT SHEET
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Partners:
Dada Zurich and Christodoulos Panayiotou
Sandú Darié’s Activations and Cildo Meireles
Casa Luis Barragán, Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán and Jalisco’s State Government
Germán Cueto’s Performance
Casa Luis Barragán, Galería Páramo, Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán and Jalisco’s State Government
Monoblock exhibition by Juan José Gurrola
Casa Luis Barragán, Fundación Gurrola A.C., House of Gaga CDMX and Los Angeles, Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán y Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco.
Duration:
Dada Zurich Exhibition
February 5th – Abril 30th
Sandú Darié’s Activation
Abril 29th – May 31st
Christodoulos Panayiotou’s Exhibition
June 4th – August 27th
Cildo Meireles’s Activation
August 28th – September 25th
Germán Cueto’s Performance
October 27th, 2017 – October 31st, 2017
Monoblock exhibition by Juan José Gurrola
December 1st, 2017 – January 28th, 2018
Writings about art: Marius de Zayas
December 19th, 2017
General Objective
The initiative offers expositions, interventions, perfomances, academic and pedagogic activities and publications that interweave dialogue with the historical context that the house offers and Luis Barragán’s own legacy one of the of the most distinguished architects of the 20th century. The curatorial program includes the work of global and notable artists; their work invites us to ponder on the diverse artistic disciplines that modern and contemporary art offer.
