Guadalupe Rosales

Before I began to post here, I had made a list of artist I was interested in showing but that's not what it turned out to be once I started, for the most part at least. One artist led me to the next and so on. I guess thats what blogging is... This has been an amazing experience, hope you enjoyed these amazing works by amazing artists.

[Collaboration with Anne Hall]

[part of "Queridos" series]
one last time here and here!
goodbye...

marion sosa

work by marion sosa. see more here.

[all marion sosa. from the series mummy dearest.]

yoshua okon

work by yoshua okon. see more here.

[all work by yoshua okon. top to bottom: (video still from) jedbangers. 1998-2002. mavi. 2008. (detail from) staphylococcus, 2004.]

mexico city: a tremor in the structure

Photographers in Mexico City: I Heart Photograph is excited to announce a portfolio review and workshop I will be giving here next week, on Wednesday the 30th of June at the Museo Tamayo. Would love to have you take part so please send along your portfolios for consideration. Big thanks to Tóxico for organizing this as part of their exciting new Tóxico: Lab initiative, keep an eye on all their activities here. Also thanks to the Tamayo for hosting this event, follow their great online magazine here. Full details are below.

A Tremor In The Structure
Revisión de portafolio + plataforma de diálogo
30 de Junio 10am – 6pm
Museo Tamayo
Entrada gratuita
Selección por portafolio
Cupo muy limitado

Laurel Ptak es la creadora de I Heart Photograph, uno de los blogs de fotografía más visitados del mundo. Por medio de éste Laurel ha dado a conocer a docenas de jóvenes fotógrafos, y de paso se ha vuelto una figura importante entre la nueva generación de curadores independientes–quienes logran moverse con la misma soltura entre territorios virtuales y los espacio de las galerías o museos tradicionales. Porque además de haber trabajado con instituciones establecidads tales como el Guggenheim Museum, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Art:21, Aperture Foundation y el Museo Tamayo, ha buscado experimentar continuamente con nuevas estrategias curatoriales y formatos altamente experimentales.

En este taller intensivo Laurel nos platicará sobre los nuevos modos en que se está reconstituyendo el mundo de la fotografía hoy en día; sobre las múltiples alternativas que existen para crear plataformas de visibilidad, comunidad e intercambios; y sobre la interesante posibilidad de poner en crisis a las estructuras jerárquicas tradicionales.

Además, habrá una revisión de portafolio en vivo y directo: podrás compartir tu trabajo, ver el trabajo de otros, intercambiar ideas y recibir retroalimentación. Los mejores portafolios serán publicados en iheartphotograph.com y en el blog de Tóxico; también se harán llegar a varios editores de las revistas culturales más importantes de México.

Laurel inaugura Tóxico: Lab, una serie de talleres multidisciplinarios de Tóxico: especialmente creados para (y por) una nueva generación de talentosos artistas emergentes.

Interesados en asistir al taller favor de mandar a foto@toxicocultura.com:

-Un PDF con tu portafolio
-Una breve biografía
-Un par de renglones que expliquen por qué te interesa asistir

La plática se dará en inglés, si requieres traducción porfavor menciónalo también en tu correo. Recomendamos escribir lo antes posible dado el número limitado de lugares. Fecha límite: Lunes 28 de junio, 6pm

agradecemos como siempre el generoso patrocinio de la fundación/colección jumex, así como el apoyo del museo tamayo, the lift y tomo.

ramiro chaves

ramiro chaves's 'proyecto canada'. "CANADA are the monumental letters which, for over 50 years, advertised a famous mexican shoe brand, along the condominio insurgentes façade at the insurgentes avenue in mexico city. at the turn of the millennium the company went bankrupt and the letters, which had become an urban referent, were brought down...a few years after the economical failure of CANADA these letters became a forgotten document." see more here.

[all ramiro chaves. proyecto canada. 2006.]

diego berruecos

work by diego berruecos. see more here.

[all diego berruecos. collage. 2007-2009.]

mario garcía torres

mario garcía torres's '¿alguna vez has visto la nieve caer? (have you ever seen the snow?)' . "the slide-show is a narrative essay about the limitations and potentials of photography and takes as a starting point the artist research around the whearabouts of the one hotel owned by alighiero boetti during the 1970's in kabul, afghanistan." more here.

[all mario garcía torres. 2010. from the series ¿alguna vez has visto la nieve caer? (have you ever seen the snow?). 35 mm slides and sound.]

postcard from mexico city

goodbye new york city. i'll be traveling almost all summer long but promise to keep you updated on my whereabouts and projects along the way. right now i've landed in amazing mexico city and i'll be here until the end of july. here's some of what i'm up to at the moment: i'll be working with the museo tamayo on some really incredible projects, including the online magazine they recently launched: rufino.mx. i'm also taking part in postopolis!df this week, a really super conference of bloggers that kicked off yesterday and goes through saturday. it's organized by the greatgreatgreat people from storefront for art and architecture, museo experimental el eco, tomo, and domus. i'll be speaking at postopolis! on thursday at 7pm, if you're in town come by and say hello (full event info is here), and for everyone else livestream is here.

[top to bottom: mexico city. rufino.mx. postopolis!df getting underway on tuesday (see if you can spot me...i'm in the red pants) photo by régine (and see more here).]

beatriz diaz

beatriz diaz's 'geographica' project. "this is a series of imaginary landscapes created from appropriated and manipulated photographs. the images originally came from my parent's collection of national geographic magazines from the late seventies." see more here.

[all beatriz diaz. geographica.]

marion sosa

work by marion sosa. see more here.

[all marion sosa. top to bottom: untitled (mummy dearest 10). 2007-8. untitled (from the series war of the roses. 2009. untitled (mummy dearest 7). 2007-8.]

alejandra laviada

work by alejandra laviada. see more here.

[all alejandra laviada. from the series holes.]

ramiro chaves

work by ramiro chaves. see more here.

[all ramiro chaves. from the series miramar.]

tiban núñez

work by tiban núñez, made from his friends' facebook photos. see more here.

[from the series fotos bonitas.]

alejandra laviada

mexican photographer alejandra laviada's project juarez #56 is made up of temporary sculptures photographed inside an abandoned office building in mexico city scheduled for demolition. take a peek at more of alejandra's work here.

[all alejandra laviada. from the series juarex #56. 2007. top to bottom: stair. volcano. chairs.]