The Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, the agency Design Flux and Galeria La Refaccionaria, Mexico, are honored to present you our new joint project: Walking the Gray Area.
Walking the Gray Area is a collective exhibition curated by Valeria Siemelink and Andrea Wagner, that brings together 20 Latin American and 20 European jewellery makers and artists who ocationally work with jewellery as a medium, into a dialogue about jewellery, global mobility, contemporary identities and its personal and/or collective implications. The curators of Walking the Gray Area, have each selected 20 artists from their respective continents: Latin America and Europe. Each artist has a unique approach to jewellery: different perspectives of art and jewellery, differnt ideas, different interests, different materials and techniques, different countries. But all artists have one thing in common: like the curators themselves, they have experienced the phenomena of global mobility in one or another way: born in one place, lived, studied, worked in another one.
The artists have randomly paired: one Latin American artist has been coupled with one European artist. Each pair will start a dialogue, through a web blog that has been created for this purpose, in the ways they find interesting or relevant: they are able to exchange conversations, stories, pictures, images and even materials. The dialogue can be verbal, visual of both and will lead to the creation of one body ornament by artist.
We invite you to visit the blog, moderated by the Mexican art critic Jose Manuel Springer, which will walk you through the process of creating an exhibition from the scratch and allow you to interact with the artists and moderator.
The exhibition will be presented within the frame of the symposium Gray Area, Ist Encounter of Contemporary Jewellery between Latin America and Europe, to take place from April 12th to 16th in Mexico City. The opening date of the exhibition, at the fabulous Galeria La Refaccionaria, in Mexico City's historic Centre will be announced in the following months.
We hope that you will enjoy the experience and that you will walk along with us towards this amazing exhibition. Visit the Walking the Gray Area Blog at:
http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/
Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, la agencia Design Flux y Galeria La Refaccionaria, Mexico, tienen el placer de presentar su nuevo proyecto de cooperacion: Walking the Gray Area.
Walking the Gray Area es una exposicion colectiva, curada por Valeria Siemelink y Andrea Wagner, que pone en contacto a 20 artistas y joyeros latinoamericanos y 20 europeos para desarrollar un dialogo sobre joyeria, mobilidad global, indentidades contemporaneas y sus implicaciones tanto colectivas como personales. Cada una de las curadoras de la muestra han seleccionado 20 artistas de sus respectivos continentes: America Latina y Europa. Cada artista tiene un acercamiento muy particular con la joyeria: diferentes perspectivas, diferentes ideas, diferentes intereses, diferentes tecnicas y materiales, diferentes paises. Pero todos estos artistas tienen algo en comun: al igual que las curadoras mismas, todos han experimentado, de una u otra manera, el fenomeno creciente de la mobilidad global: nacidos en un lugar, viviendo, estudiando o trabajando en otro.
Los artistas han sido organizados en parejas creadas al azar: un artista latinoamericano ha sido emparejado con un europeo. Cada pareja iniciara un dialogo, a traves de un blog que ha sido creado con este proposito, de la manera que ellos decidan: a traves del intercambio de textos, imagenes, fotografias, videos e incluso materiales. El dialogo puede llevarse a cabo de manera verbal o visual y resultara en la creacion de un ornamento elaborado por cada uno de los 40 artistas participantes.
Estan coordialmente invitados a visitar este blog, moderado por el critico mexicano Jose Manuel Springer y acompanarnos en el proceso de creacion de una exhibicion e interactuar con los artistas y el moderador.
La exhibicion Walking the Gray Area sera presentada dentro del marco del simposio Area Gris, Ier encunetro de Joyeria Contemporanea entre America Latina y Europa, que se llavara a cabo del 12 al 16 de abril del 2010 en la Ciudad de Mexico. En los meses siguientes les informaremos la fecha exacta de la inauguracion, que tendra lugar en la Galeria La Refacciconaria, en el centro historico de la Ciudad de Mexico.
Esperamos que disfruten la experiencia y que nos acompanen durante el desarrollo the esta fascinante exhibicion. Son bienvenidos a visitar el Blog Walking the Gray Area en:
http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/
