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Feria de la Acción

Feria de la Acción

Art fair

-> Feb 4 2020 – Feb 9 2020

Ex Fábrica de Harina

Feria de la Acción—​Action Fair—​announces its first edition at Ex Fábrica de Harina. It is an artist-run platform that seeks to encourage a conversation between different artistic disciplines and offers a space and supports a number of experimental ideas to come alive.

It is an art fair that approaches art in a particularly different way, giving limelight to the creative process over the final pieces.

Víctor Palacios Armendáriz—​current curatorial director at Museo Cabañas in Guadalajara—​is the chief curator of this first edition’s curatorial program.

More than 32 artists, 7 curators and 15 artistic and curatorial programs selected.

Pioneer Works (Brooklyn), neurotitan (Berlin), Sophie Dupont (Copenhagen), COBERTIZO (Jilotepec), Edgar Solorzano (Mexico City), Estudio Marte (Mexico City) and many others will be part of this experimental space that seeks to develop artistic creation.

Feria de la Acción will show the creative process of the exhibited artwork to the public during Mexico City’s Art Week and will inaugurate the final pieces on its last day of exhibition.

Feria de la Acción will celebrate its first edition from February 4th to 9th, 2020 during Mexico City’s Art Week at Ex Fábrica de Harina—​Former Flour Fabric—​with the purpose of encouraging artistic creation, having a different, more democratic approach to art, showing the creative process to the public and decentralize the city’s art scene from boutique neighborhoods.

Feria de la Acción is an artist-run platform that seeks to encourage a conversation between different artistic disciplines, as well as offering a space for exhibition and supporting a number of creative ideas and initiatives to come alive and/or keep working.

It is based on the belief that the encounter among artists, curators and spectators stimulates creative thinking. Traditionally artwork is exhibited in its final stage, preventing the public from getting involved in the creative processes of artists and curators. The concept of Feria de la Acción is to connect the public with the artistic process in real time in order to become part of the work and live a unique experience, far from the way in which more mainstream projects show art.

Actions can have an artistic value that this young, against the grain, non-conventional art fair seeks to put in the spotlight because of its interest in acts, reflection and the creative process, and not only in the finished work of art.

For Feria de la Acción the creative processes and final results have the same relevance.

The fair will present a curatorial–El Espacio (The Space)–and a scenic program–El Escenario (The Stage)– as two important pillars. In El Espacio young, emerging and established curators are invited to present proposals for the exhibit space, in addition to granting a budget for their exhibitions. In El Escenario artists from many disciplines are invited to work on ephemeral pieces based on time, something which is usually supported only in a very small percentage by traditional art fairs. Therefore, Feria de la Acción generates a dialogue between curatorial and performance proposals.

El Espacio’s chief curator for this first edition is Víctor Palacios Armendáriz (Mexico City, 1973), current curatorial director at Museo Cabañas in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Palacios is an art historian graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and has worked as visual arts chief in Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, part of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; research assistant at Museo Tamayo; curatorial assistant at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and at Manifesta 5, in San Sebastián, Spain, as well as general curator at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and curator of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

As chief curator of Feria de la Acción’s curatorial program he directed a call of proposals from which 7 curators were picked to produce a conceptual proposal, inviting 14 specific artists to carry out their works at Ex Fábrica de Harina, a space taken by urban art and now transformed into a cultural forum, located at the border of Miguel Hidalgo–a mainly gentrified uproaring area–and Azcapotzalco–mainly popular and industrial–municipalities, with the purpose of decentralizing Mexico City’s art scene, by taking it out of its comfort zone.

With a designated area for each curator, Feria de la Acción proposes works that can be visited while being made and transformed, apart from seeing their final result during the most important weekend for the contemporary art scene of the city.

Thus, in its curatorial program–El Espacio–, the fair will present:

  1. Aldo Iram Juárez (independent curator, Mexico City) with work by Daniel Escamilla (Artist, Mexico City).
  2. COBERTIZO (artistic program, Jilotepec, Mexico State), with the curatorship of Ismael and Manuel Sentíes (Mexico City), and work by Andrea Bores (Toluca, Mexico State) and Edgar Solórzano (Mexico City).
  3. Estudio Abierto (artistic program, Oaxaca, Mexico), with the curatorship of Guadalupe Salgado and work by Colectivo Lalitho.
  4. Estudio Marte (artistic program, Mexico City), with the curatorship of Susana Gómez-Ortiz (Mexico City) and work by Manuela García, Karen Cheirif and Joshua Jobb.
  5. neurotitan (artistic program, Berlin, Germany), with the curatorship of Annika Hirsekorn (Berlin) and work by Ko de Kok (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
  6. Daniela Orozco (independent curator, Mexico City) with work by Gisela Guzmán, Elizabeth Flores and Alina Sánchez (Mexico City).
  7. Pioneer Works + Radio 28 (artistic programs New York + Mexico City) with work by Z Behl (USA).

Also, in its scenic program–El Escenario–, the fair will present:

  1. Adriana Santiago (Mexico City).
  2. Aimée Suárez Netzahualcóyotl + Fernando Vigueras (Mexico City).
  3. Alain Kerriou (Mexico City).
  4. Amnon Friedman (Israel).
  5. Antonio Arango (Mexico City).
  6. Bahía de Ascenso.
  7. Carlos Metta (Mexico City).
  8. Ileana Moreno (Mexico City).
  9. Jacob Wick (USA).
  10. Kara Rooney y Néstor Quiñon (USA and Mexico).
  11. Karen Cheirif (Mexico City).
  12. Luis Sokol + Melissa Fuentes (Mexico City).
  13. Santiago Muedano (Mexico City).
  14. Sophie Dupont (Copenhagen, Denmark).
  15. Coro Acardenchado.
  16. Elena Solis (Mexico City).
  17. Zony Maya (Mexico City).

Furthermore, in its artistic initiatives program–El Directorio (The Directory)–, will present:

  1. Casa Lü (Mexico City and Tepoztlán, Morelos).
  2. COBERTIZO (Jilotepec, State of Mexico).
  3. Estudio Abierto (Oaxaca, Mexico).
  4. Estudio Marte (Mexico City).
  5. LILHA (San Francisco, USA, and Nayarit, Mexico).
  6. neurotitan (Berlin, Germany).
  7. Radio28 (Mexico City).
  8. The Lab Program (Mexico City).
  9. PAIJÁN (Lima, Peru).
  10. Pioneer Works (New York, USA).

Finally, Feria de la Acción will have an exhibition and sale platform–El Mostrador (The Counter)–of unique products related to editorial design and illustration, as well as its production and processes, giving visibility to how these are also, in turn, an artistic action.

Feria de la Acción is an artist-run initiative that seeks to promote other artists, therefore it does not have a specific admission fee since it is a donation-based platform. This voluntary donation will contribute to the continuity of the presented artistic projects.

Based on the need to show the artistic processes, Feria de la Acción is a way to live art differently: this is the initiative that Mexico City’s Art Week was lacking.

An action is a response to a stimulus. Everything can be an action: to create, build, reflect, donate, be part of a young, emerging, sensory, more humane proposal. Its main concern is to show a more accessible side of art for everybody.

Feria de la Acción is an initiative by: Tal Frank, visual artist, founder and director of Radio28; Jorge Rosano Gamboa, conceptual visual artist, founder and director of Galería Breve; Natalia Vargas Campuzano, creative director, co-founder and co-owner of Mártires de la Conquista; and Roberto Flores García, visual artist, founder and creative director at Estudio Guerrero. Yuki Ogura is Feria de la Acción’s project Manager.
–– Feria de la Acción

Tuesday, February 4:
4-9PM: Open to the public.
10PM-2AM: Inaugural Cocktail.

Admission Fee: voluntary donation