20 y más por el arte

Season 1

Portraits of young Mexican artists that received the grant FONCA.

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20 Episodes

  • Biografía a través del arte
    E1
    Biografía a través del arteLeonardo and Igor Nieto Joly tell their life stories through their art. Leonardo is composing a suite for zither - instrument he picked up in a boarding school in India - consisting of five movements where each represents a stage in a human life. Meanwhile, Igor photographs the essence of the places where they've been from India to the Mexican Caribbean where they currently reside.
  • Hacia la cima del Izta
    E2
    Hacia la cima del IztaBy some calculations, glaciers in Mexico have only ten years of existence left. Tania Ximena Ruiz Santos climbs the Iztaccihuatl to measure and photograph the ice formations at its summit. She then reproduces them as faithfully as possible in ceramic. The idea is to make an installation - a kind of a mausoleum - of formations that have ceased to exist.
  • Neza York
    E3
    Neza York"Ciudad Neza" is one of Mexico City's most peculiar neighborhoods. That is where Fershow Escárcega is from and where most of his photo shoots take place.
  • Miradas genealógicas
    E4
    Miradas genealógicasTania Bohórquez's father is also her mother's uncle. Incest has always been a part of her life and her art. Her most recent project "Genealogical glances" is a series of portraits of families that have incestuous blood ties.
  • Un oficio de hombres
    E5
    Un oficio de hombresLuis Enrique García Reyes' father was a truck driver until his death. Now Luis Enrique travels along photographing not only the profession, but the interaction amongst men as well.
  • El último viaje de la SEFT-1
    E6
    El último viaje de la SEFT-1Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene built the SEFT-1 to travel along the abandoned railroads of the country.
  • La mirada de los niños
    E7
    La mirada de los niñosThrough her photographs, Claudia Hans shows children's conceptions of death, God and family.
  • El gesto revolucionario
    E8
    El gesto revolucionarioNuria Montiel constructed a mobile printing press to record people's words during demonstrations. Now she is directing a play that evokes with shadows, the gestures of a revolution.
  • Retrato de una identificación oficial
    E9
    Retrato de una identificación oficialSamara Guzmán Fernández collects the official identifications of strangers. She then draws their portrait based on the photo that appears on the ID and sends it to the address there specified.
  • La tautología del miedo
    E10
    La tautología del miedoIn northern Mexico violence has become all too common. José Jiménez Ortiz analyzes the effect of fear and the questions that arise after the death of a loved one due to organized crime.
  • Kaleidokleta
    E11
    KaleidokletaLeika Mochán music interacts with its surroundings. She composes songs that use atmospheric sounds and she takes her music to the streets on her pimped bike.
  • La ilusión de lo real
    E12
    La ilusión de lo realFabiola Torres-Alzaga's art challenges reality using optical illusions and the tricks of traditional magic.
  • El arte de ser un ama de casa
    E13
    El arte de ser un ama de casaRuvalcaba & Partners is a company that buys ideas for art pieces. Its founder, Daniel Ruvalcaba, is currently working with housewives in order to form an art collection inspired on domestic work.
  • La matraca
    E14
    La matracaEsthel Vera Vogrig designed an interface that detects movement and assigns a note to each one. This way, by dancing one creates music - and with a choreography one composes a song-.
  • Lo efímero
    E15
    Lo efímeroMarcos Castro does interventions in buildings about to be demolished. His work then becomes archaeological ruins.
  • Ópera de salsa
    E16
    Ópera de salsaGabriel Briones designed a special kind of guitar with eleven strings in order to introduce this instrument in his salsa compositions. Now, he's composing the first ever opera in the salsa genre.
  • Deconstruyendo el teatro
    E17
    Deconstruyendo el teatroRichard Viqueira introduces elements of performance, action movies or video games in his plays.
  • El arte es político
    E18
    El arte es políticoRenato Garza Cervera's pieces touch sensitive subjects such as religion and politics. They do so with a sense of humor that doesn't undermine the seriousness of the message.
  • Poemas en Tzotzil
    E19
    Poemas en TzotzilAngelina Suyul writes poetry, María Arias makes documentary films. The work of both artists serves as a glimpse of the tzotzil language and culture.
  • Encuentros
    E20
    EncuentrosDiego Vázquez, choreographer, and Erick Meyenberg, multi-disciplinary artist, revise their projects in the meetings of the FONCA grant for young Mexican artists.

 

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