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[Nettime-ro] Geta Bratescu "Vestigii" 1982 , ZonaMaco 6-10 Aprilie, Mexico City]


Geta Bratescu Vestigii 1982
6 - 10 Aprilie 2011

Ivan Gallery
Booth ZMS5, ZONA MACO. MEXICO ARTE CONTEMPORANEOCentro Banamex, Hall D,
Mexico City
www.zonamaco.com

"Despite being held in Mexico City, with a majority of artists and
galleries originating from Latin America, Zona Maco
 Sur, the project room section of Zona Maco, has always resisted the
strictly Latin American territorial or geographic boundaries. Margins and
limits always call for questioning. Thus, Zona Maco Sur has taken up the
more open, poetic and imprecise denomination of Sur [South], and since its
inception has paired artists from Latin America with those from Africa,
Eastern Europe and the Middle East. At times other artists have also been
invited to Zona Maco (from Western Europe and the United States), yet in
these few outside cases their projects have explored local sources and
references.

Within such an open and framework, Zona Maco Sur has no ossified criteria,
and if the initial approach in 2009 was to invite artists and galleries
that had not exhibited in Mexico City, now in its third edition, the
section gathers a number of local galleries for the first time. The number
of solo projects has grown from 15 in 2009, to 20 in 2010, and 22 this
year. The exhibition space has also increased in size since the first
edition, and since last year the architecture of the section creates a
distinct configuration as an exhibition parcours. Artists and galleries
are invited to participate by
 the curator, and no applications are accepted.

The context of the art fair offers a platform to test certain
juxtapositions and to take certain risks that an exhibition in an
institution might otherwise constrain. In this respect, the emphasis
remains on the artist and her individual presentation. The focus on women
artists in 2011 is not to be regarded as a feminist proposition, but
reflects quite simply the interest and research of the curator. Zona Maco
Sur is a flexible project that may take different configurations each
year, responding to the curatorial research and the conversations with
artists and galleries that the process entails. For 2011, the research led
quite organically to women artists, something that harks back to my own
Brazilian background, where the leading figures of contemporary art are
women. 

Zona Maco Sur echoes the exhibition program at Museu de Arte Pampulha in
Belo Horizonte in 2002-2003, which I co-curated with Rodrigo Moura and
which was dominated by women artists not as a programmatic strategy, but
as an end result; many of these appear now in Mexico Cityâ??Carla
Zaccagnini, Débora Bolsoni, Marilá Dardot, Rosângela Rennó, and Sandra
Cinto, Valeska Soares. Zona Maco Sur 2011 has much of the same spirit. Yet
it also enlarges the focus on emerging and younger artists, so typical of
project room sections, in order to encompass senior and historical
figures:
Geta Bratescu, from Bucharest, Margarita Paksa, from Buenos Aires, and
Regina Silveira and the late Mira Schendel, from Sao Paulo. Zona Maco Sur
remains an experiment, and as such, it is only possible on a platform such
as the one offered to us by Zona Maco in Mexico City."

Adriano Pedrosa

















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