The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa

As part of Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura, Arte Abierto invites you to the conversation Los años sesenta y el bautizo de la Zona Rosa in charge of researcher José Ignacio Lanzagorta.

Mexico City's Zona Rosa is, above all, an imaginary. That is to say, a series of emotions, ideas, experiences and anxieties are projected on a diffuse perimeter of Colonia Juarez. This cloud of meanings began to be created perhaps since the 1920s, but it was in the 1960s when it took on a consciousness of its own. A group of artists, intellectuals, journalists and more, reflected on what they saw, did, prophesied and sentenced. They even gave a name to it all: Zona Rosa. And that imaginary managed to expand and transcend to the following generations. The Zona Rosa is a space for recreation, transgressions, cosmopolitan life and nostalgia; it is a territory that feels contradictory since its baptism: “neither red, nor white, but pink, precisely pink”. In the talk we will analyze those 60s and that endearing space that was both decadent and avant-garde.

–Arte Abierto