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OMR Gallery Gallery Weekend Mexico 2014

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
― Albert Camus

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Galleries

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

"Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds."

- Ray Bradbury

To Marty


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Gallery Weekend III

OMR Gallery  -  Pablo Rasgado

Pablo Rasgado (Zapopan, 1984) solo exhibition is an art show in constant change: it grows through the restyling of the gallery space. The walls of drywall that used to divide OMR gallery’s small rooms were removed to open just two rooms bigger in size. Instead of old walls, brick walls from other locations were placed there. This is an attempt to make sense to the whole process of transformation in space and forms in the exhibition. All material extracted from the walls is used by the artist to produce a series of sculpture; form and size fully depend on how much material is obtained from demolitions.

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Gallery Weekend II

OMR Gallery - Ojo por diente
Pablo Rasgado

Pablo Rasgado (Zapopan, 1984) solo exhibition is an art show in constant change: it grows through the restyling of the gallery space. The walls of drywall that used to divide OMR gallery’s small rooms were removed to open just two rooms bigger in size. Instead of old walls, brick walls from other locations were placed there. This is an attempt to make sense to the whole process of transformation in space and forms in the exhibition. All material extracted from the walls is used by the artist to produce a series of sculpture; form and size fully depend on how much material is obtained from demolitions.

October Theme Day: "Details"

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Gallery Weekend I

Proyectos Monclova Gallery

Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo Gallery

Contemporary Art in México City

Gallery Weekend México is the weekend devoted to contemporary art. Based on the magnificent offer and artistic production from our country, this initiative ofCódigo magazine is an annual program, which will be held in September. One of its most important purposes is to bring together the art community and contemporary audience art.

This event will take place from the 27th to the 29th of September. The most innovative galleries in Mexico City will open their best exhibits on the evening of the 27th. They will extend their opening hours: 11 am to 7 pm Saturday and 11 am to 5 pm Sunday. 

A free transportation system for visitors will be provided by Gallery Weekend to make the route between galleries, along with guided tours which timetables you can check here.

This project adds up to the trend that began in Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, New York and Chicago. Gallery Weekend México offers a space to reflect on the production and circulation of contemporary art and to promote art collecting in our country. An essential event in the culture calendar

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Woodstock II

The Film

The documentary film Woodstock, directed by  and edited by Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese, was released in 1970. Artie Kornfeld (one of the promoters of the festival) came to Fred Weintraub, an executive at Warner Bros., and asked for money to film the festival. Previously, Artie had been turned down everywhere else, but Fred Weintraub became his hero and, against the express wishes of other Warner Bros. executives, Weintraub put his job on the line and gave Kornfeld $100,000 to make the film. Woodstock helped to save Warner Bros at a time when the company was on the verge of going out of business. The book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls details the making of the film.

Wadleigh rounded up a crew of about 100 from the New York film scene. With no money to pay the crew, he agreed to a double-or-nothing scheme, in which the crew would receive double pay if the film succeeded and nothing if it bombed. Wadleigh strove to make the film as much about the hippies as the music, listening to their feelings about compelling events contemporaneous with the festival (such as the Vietnam War), as well as the views of the townspeople.

Woodstock received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film has been deemed culturally significant by the United States Library of Congress. In 1994, Woodstock: The Director's Cut was released and expanded to include Janis Joplin as well as additional performances by Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, and Canned Heat not seen in the original version of the film. In 2009, the film was re-released on DVD. This release marks the film's first availability on Blu-ray disc.

Another film on Woodstock named Taking Woodstock was produced in 2009 by Taiwanese American filmmaker Ang Lee.  [Wiki]

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Zona Rosa / The Pink Zone

During more than twenty years, the so-callled Zona Rosa has been an excellent area to stay and go shopping. It is conveniently located near the Historical Centre and crossed by Reforma avenue, which is the main commercial and financial axis of the city. During 1967, a year clearly marked by the restlessness of the decade, a certain area of the Juarez neighborhood was named the Pink Zone; neither red nor white, but certainly Bohemian and recently renovated to appease the tastes of modern youth. Its elegant hideaways inherited the glamour of bygone times, and it seemed almost as if, in honor of the names of its streets, it had been transplanted from Old Europe. Today the Pink Zone continues to undergo changes: new boutiques, bars and discotheques have expanded the choices available to those patrons who populate the area in search of entertainment or survival. Thus, beggars, discotheque hawkers, yuppies, foreign tourists, nocturnal rodents, revellers, druggies, ladies out shopping and business men blend together at any time of the day or night with the muted colors of the cobble stones, walls and buildings in their quest for the much desired Vie en Rose.
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Gracias por su visita / Thanks for visiting.

Biombos...De Ida y Vuelta / Screens

BIOMBOS…DE IDA Y VUELTA. De Mónica Mariscal.
 Exposición conformada por obras que además de movimiento, le ofrecen al potencial espectador dos opciones o dos caras que apreciar en el mismo trabajo. “Hacer Biombos me pareció atractivo ya que así lograba mi objetivo. Tienen dos caras y también movilidad. Un biombo es todo misterioso, por un lado vas y por el otro vuelves. Lo que a unos escondes se lo quieres mostrar a otros. Un poco como el agua o el viento que se cierra, abre y despliega.

Casa Lamm

Nostalgia

Sculptures at Plaza del Angel. (Unknown sculptor)

Twins

At Plaza del Angel (Angel Mall) where you can find, antiques & art galleries.