En octubre brota el amarillo

Casa Limantour and Saenger Galería invite you to a guided tour (and cocktail party) of the group exhibition En octubre brota el amarillo, with works by Cecilia Barreto, Lutz Braun, Fernanda Brunet, Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes, Alfredo Gallegos Mena, Alejandro García Contreras, Rachel Hellmann, Sebastián Hidalgo, Robert Janitz, Javier Peláez, Alejandro Pintado, Ale, Rachel Hellmann, Sebastián Hidalgo, Robert Janitz, Javier Peláez, Alejandro Pintado, Ale de la Puente, Scott Reeder, Jorge Rosano Gamboa, Haruna Shinagawa, Benjamín Torres, Iván Trueta, Alain Urrutia, Yoab Vera and Adrián White. Curated by Eduardo Luque and Christian Barragán.

The guided tour also includes Tied to the mast by artist Mark Hagen. 

En octubre brota el amarillo is the first contemporary art project hosted by Casa Limantour under the curatorship of Eduardo Luque and with the assistance of Christian Barragán. With this new exhibition, Saenger Gallery reaffirms its program of exhibitions in architectural spaces of historical and cultural relevance. On this occasion, twenty artists from Mexico, North America, Spain, Germany and Japan have been brought together to trace a temporal arc of more than thirty years of creation that allows us to observe the multiple singularities of approaches, processes, materialities and questions used by the artists summoned around the same constant, classic in the history of art, the landscape. The notions of landscape addressed in this exhibition contemplate not only the spatial and representational dimension of reality, but also its temporal, mythological and historical aspect and start from the exhibition space itself, Casa Limantour, an eclectic style building located in the Plazuela de San Fernando, in front of the Vicente Guerrero Garden, in the vicinity of the Historic Center of Mexico City. The history of this building is testimony to the transformation of a city and a country that spans three centuries, from the Restored Republic to post-revolutionary Mexico, and from that era to the present. Erected during the last decade of the 19th century on the site formerly occupied by the porter's lodge of the Convent and College of San Fernando (dated between 1735 and 1751, an example of the novo-Hispanic baroque) and currently still adjacent to the temple and pantheon of the same name, the Limantour House, besides being originally projected as one of the residences of the Limantour Marquet family, has been occupied on the first floor of the building by a photographic studio, a hardware store and several antique bookstores; The metallic curtains that still survive are a reminder of that past that in this renewed phase continues along the same path, art and its neighboring fields of action. From this nineteenth-century corner, there is room for the monumental and immediate landscape of the exterior, as well as for the partial and interior views of the domestic space; from the hidden landscape due to extractivism in the north of Mexico, to the artificial spaces of a garden; from the immensity of the universe, to the minuscule of dust and sand. “En octubre brota el amarillo” is an expression of the artist Sebastián Hidalgo, included in this exhibition, with which the artist expresses his intimate and daily relationship with nature; the implications of this fact have repercussions in daily life, whether while walking a stretch of land, meditating in the private sphere or working alone in the workshop. The landscape becomes present for the artists gathered here beyond the extension that encompasses the gaze between the street and the sky. In any case, the landscapes suggested here are governed by the same motto that starts from the close, fascinating and intriguing experience with those concrete and intangible spaces that we inhabit and define us: the echo of an empty house, the relationship with the earth, the fleetingness of time. Perhaps that could be the starting point of this project, the line of flight from which every landscape is configured: a trace, the vestiges of something similar to a desire.

–Eduardo Luque and Christian Barragán