Curator: Magnolia de la Garza y Patrick Charpenel
This exhibition was originally conceived, in 2017, to be placed in Banco Santander Foundation on the outskirts of Madrid, and years later it was exposed in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey.
It is from the question: What does it mean to see Contemporary Art from Mexico? that an approach is made to the CIAC A.C. collection, which has been made up from Mexico with works by both, Mexican and foreign artists, with a look abroad, a particular vision for being a mestizo country.
Point of Departure was an exhibition curated by Magnolia de la Garza and Patrick Charpenel, who start from the idea of a mestizo thought to show a reading of international Contemporary Art conceived from Mexico and its particular historical and geographical context. This theme was structured from five perspectives: identity, territory, economy, pedagogy and community. CIAC brings together works from various places and contexts, viewed from a different place than the one in which they were produced.
Mestizaje is never limited or reduced to two antagonistic positions that confront each other, but rather generate a synthesis and the consequent appearance of a third way: that of the hybrid, the diffuse, the mixed. Mestizaje, understood as a way of thinking, is based on a dialectical relationship where there are no absolute and closed categories, but a multiplicity of representations and a singularity of forms.
Point of Departure is then a vision of Contemporary Art from Mexico that does not seek to be either definitive or closed, but rather follows the logic of mestizo thought by remaining open to being questioned and rethought with each new acquisition and with each exhibition or text about the collection.
Superflex
Installation. 17 MDF black painted panels with vinyl letters
78.74 x 47.24 x 3.90 in
Joseph Beuys
Chalk on blackboard
39.37 x 78.74 in
Allora & Calzadilla
Print on linen
120.00 x 168.00 in
Tunga
Sculpture installation
140.94 x 99.02 x 110.04 in
Luis Camnitzer
Silver gelatin print
10.98 x 13.98 in
Mircea Cantor
3 pieces
8.00 x 1.20 x 1.50 in
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Acrylic paint on iron, wooden branch, leather, printed canvas, anodized pigment on galvanized steel and tar
Lygia Clark
Sculpture aluminium (16 leaves)
15.75 x 11.81 x 5.91 in
Mario García Torres
2 videos, 2 paintings, 1 drawing and series of photographs
Gary Hill
Video installation with sound
209.84 x 127.95 in
Pierre Huyghe
Tapestry
237.01 x 314.96 in
Pierre Huyghe
Film color sound
14 min.
Fritzia Irízar Rojo
Video, 8 photographies, safe box
Variable dimensions
Toril Johannessen
Digital print
36.61 x 52.76 in
Alicja Kwade
Aluminium, zinc, lead, copper, nickel, tin, silver, gold
5.67 x 67.52 x 41.73 in
Fausto Melotti
Brass and fabric
33.46 x 15.75 x 11.81 in
Hélio Oiticica
Gouache on cardboard
11.77 x 15.35 in
Hélio Oiticica
Gouache on cardboard
19.69 x 23.62 in
Roman Ondak
32 drawings pencil on paper, steel string. Unique
Dimensions variable
Damián Ortega
Concrete cubes. Installation
Dimensions variable
Amalia Pica
White marble, paint, silicone tubes
Dimensions 17.3 x 14.6 x 10.6 in / 16.5 x 15 x 8.9 in
Stephen Prina
Black cord and brass escutcheon pins
Dimensions Left panel: 19.8 x 16.7 in; Right panel 29.7 x 36.4 in
Anri Sala
Video with sound
15' 24''
Tomás Saraceno
Beech plywood, glue, and zip ties
25.20 x 46.46 x 23.23 in