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January 2020

Thanks and goodbye!

Created with the interest of motivating the reflection about Luis Barragán’s life, legacy and work, this program served as a platform to open a dialogue between artists, curators and the historical context offered by Casa Luis Barragán. Four years of work represented in 32 projects, intended to enrich the…

Wednesday, January 01, 2020

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June 2019

Double Skin

Estancia FEMSA – Casa Luis Barragán is pleased to present French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada’s first solo exhibition in Latin America, entitled Double Skin, which brings together a set of newly commissioned works. As the exhibition’s title suggests, Barrada deals with notions of aesthetic ambiguity –which resonate with…

June 22, 2019 a September 08, 2019

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July 2019

Double Skin

Estancia FEMSA – Casa Luis Barragán is pleased to present French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada’s first solo exhibition in Latin America, entitled Double Skin, which brings together a set of newly commissioned works. As the exhibition’s title suggests, Barrada deals with notions of aesthetic ambiguity –which resonate with…

June 22, 2019 a September 08, 2019

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April 2019

Performance / Fraccionar

Within Fraccionar, an exhibition curated by Inti Guerrero for Estancia FEMSA – Casa Luis Barragán, the artist Michelangelo Miccolis presented a performance inspired by the Mexican-American choreographer José Limón (1908-1972), referring the series of black and white photographs from the Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias Archive.

 

Text given to…

April 24, 2019 a April 25, 2019

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FRACCIONAR

Gideon Appah (Ghana), José Bedia (Cuba/USA), Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker (Panama), Miguel Covarrubias (Mexico), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Julio Galán (Mexico), José Limón (Mexico/USA), (Liliana Maresca (Argentina), Diego Matthai (Mexico), John Pule (Niue/New Zealand), José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia), Chucho Reyes (Mexico), Rosa Rolanda (USA/Mexico), and Ming Wong…

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February 02, 2019 a May 05, 2019

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February 2019

FRACCIONAR

Gideon Appah (Ghana), José Bedia (Cuba/USA), Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker (Panama), Miguel Covarrubias (Mexico), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Julio Galán (Mexico), José Limón (Mexico/USA), (Liliana Maresca (Argentina), Diego Matthai (Mexico), John Pule (Niue/New Zealand), José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia), Chucho Reyes (Mexico), Rosa Rolanda (USA/Mexico), and Ming Wong…

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February 02, 2019 a May 05, 2019

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March 2019

FRACCIONAR

Gideon Appah (Ghana), José Bedia (Cuba/USA), Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker (Panama), Miguel Covarrubias (Mexico), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Julio Galán (Mexico), José Limón (Mexico/USA), (Liliana Maresca (Argentina), Diego Matthai (Mexico), John Pule (Niue/New Zealand), José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia), Chucho Reyes (Mexico), Rosa Rolanda (USA/Mexico), and Ming Wong…

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February 02, 2019 a May 05, 2019

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May 2019

FRACCIONAR

Gideon Appah (Ghana), José Bedia (Cuba/USA), Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker (Panama), Miguel Covarrubias (Mexico), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Julio Galán (Mexico), José Limón (Mexico/USA), (Liliana Maresca (Argentina), Diego Matthai (Mexico), John Pule (Niue/New Zealand), José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia), Chucho Reyes (Mexico), Rosa Rolanda (USA/Mexico), and Ming Wong…

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February 02, 2019 a May 05, 2019

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January 2019

Garden with Pigeons in Flight

From November 5th, 2018 to January 13, 2019, Estancia FEMSA and Casa Luis Barragán present a solo exhibition by the renowned Danish artist Danh Vo (Bà Rịa, Vietnam, 1975). The pieces and interventions in the exhibition—created specifically for this space—employ a series of silent, understated gestures to…

November 05, 2018 a January 13, 2019

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May 2018

Determinations of Proportion

Estancia Femsa – Casa Luis Barragán with the support of Franz Erhard Walther Foundation presents Determinations of Proportion, a solo exhibition by German artist Franz Erhard Walther.

Walther was one of the most notorious and unique voices leading the artistic experimentations around language and the materiality of the art object…

May 12, 2018 a September 30, 2018

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June 2018

Determinations of Proportion

Estancia Femsa – Casa Luis Barragán with the support of Franz Erhard Walther Foundation presents Determinations of Proportion, a solo exhibition by German artist Franz Erhard Walther.

Walther was one of the most notorious and unique voices leading the artistic experimentations around language and the materiality of the art object…

May 12, 2018 a September 30, 2018

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July 2018

Determinations of Proportion

Estancia Femsa – Casa Luis Barragán with the support of Franz Erhard Walther Foundation presents Determinations of Proportion, a solo exhibition by German artist Franz Erhard Walther.

Walther was one of the most notorious and unique voices leading the artistic experimentations around language and the materiality of the art object…

May 12, 2018 a September 30, 2018

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March 2018

Gabriela Jáuregui reads Samuel Beckett

As a finissage event for Bruce Nauman’s exhibition Parameters on April 14th, Mexican writer Gabriela Jáuregui read a selection of fragments from different texts by Samuel Beckett in the garden of Casa Barragán. These texts are representative of Beckett’s language experimentation, which has partly inspired the formal and performative…

Thursday, March 15, 2018

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Parameters

From February 3rd to April 15th 2018, Estancia FEMSA – Casa Luis Barragán is pleased to present Parameters, the first solo exhibition by Bruce Nauman in Mexico. This exhibition has assembled five video works – four produced in 1968-69, which are displayed on monitors in various locations throughout the house,…

February 03, 2018 a April 15, 2018

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February 2018

Parameters

From February 3rd to April 15th 2018, Estancia FEMSA – Casa Luis Barragán is pleased to present Parameters, the first solo exhibition by Bruce Nauman in Mexico. This exhibition has assembled five video works – four produced in 1968-69, which are displayed on monitors in various locations throughout the house,…

February 03, 2018 a April 15, 2018

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Parameters

For Bruce Nauman’s exhibition Parameters, a special publication was prepared with stills from the videos that were displayed in the House and two new specially commissioned texts written by Patrick Charpenel-Estancia FEMSA’s Artistic Director-and Michael Auping-writer and curator specialized in Bruce Nauman’s work.

Saturday, February 03, 2018

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April 2018

Parameters

From February 3rd to April 15th 2018, Estancia FEMSA – Casa Luis Barragán is pleased to present Parameters, the first solo exhibition by Bruce Nauman in Mexico. This exhibition has assembled five video works – four produced in 1968-69, which are displayed on monitors in various locations throughout the house,…

February 03, 2018 a April 15, 2018

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January 2018

Monoblock

From December 1st, 2017 to January 28th, 2018, Estancia FEMSA-Casa Barragán is pleased to present the exhibition of Monoblock, a piece by Juan José Gurrola, that is part of FEMSA Collection. It consists of a group of poems, photographs, a bilingual performance and a found object sculpture.

In 1923, Mexico and the…

December 01, 2017 a January 28, 2018

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June 2017

Mármol Rosa

Mármol Rosa by Cypriot artist Christodoulos Panayiotou re-contextualizes and re-signifies personal and domestic elements that evoke Luis Barragan’s spirituality, sensibility and inspiration sources, at the time that are connected to a broader political, social and anthropological discourse.

The architect Luis Barragán nurtured his creativity by inhabiting and studying the…

June 04, 2017 a August 27, 2017

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Untitled

This work goes beyond Casa Luis Barragán: it occupies a neighboring façade’s second-floor window into the community complex opposite of Barragán’s home. The window can be seen from inside Casa Luis Barragán’s guest bedroom and from the study that overlooks the library. This intervention underscores the border…

June 04, 2017 a August 27, 2017

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July 2017

Mármol Rosa

Mármol Rosa by Cypriot artist Christodoulos Panayiotou re-contextualizes and re-signifies personal and domestic elements that evoke Luis Barragan’s spirituality, sensibility and inspiration sources, at the time that are connected to a broader political, social and anthropological discourse.

The architect Luis Barragán nurtured his creativity by inhabiting and studying the…

June 04, 2017 a August 27, 2017

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Untitled

This work goes beyond Casa Luis Barragán: it occupies a neighboring façade’s second-floor window into the community complex opposite of Barragán’s home. The window can be seen from inside Casa Luis Barragán’s guest bedroom and from the study that overlooks the library. This intervention underscores the border…

June 04, 2017 a August 27, 2017

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May 2017

Conversation about art and architecture

Estancia FEMSA – Casa Luis Barragán in collaboration with kurimanzutto Gallery, presented a conversation at Talleres Luis Barragán, between Monika Sosnowska and Frida Escobedo within Wall, Monika Sosnowska’s exhibition at kurimanzutto. Sosnowska and Escobedo debated the transcendence of the artistic object within the architectural space and architecture…

Thursday, May 18, 2017

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Transformable Spatial Structure

During a four-week period (April 29 – May 31, 2017), Sandu Darié’s piece “Transformable Spatial Structure” from FEMSA Collection comes into conceptual and aesthetic conversation with Luis Barragán’s home and legacy, poetically revealing the weight of the spaces created by the architect.

Sandú Darié’s sculpture is exhibited in the library, with the…

April 29, 2017 a May 31, 2017

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April 2017

Transformable Spatial Structure

During a four-week period (April 29 – May 31, 2017), Sandu Darié’s piece “Transformable Spatial Structure” from FEMSA Collection comes into conceptual and aesthetic conversation with Luis Barragán’s home and legacy, poetically revealing the weight of the spaces created by the architect.

Sandú Darié’s sculpture is exhibited in the library, with the…

April 29, 2017 a May 31, 2017

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Dying on stage

Taking as starting point Rudolf Nureyev’s 1991 staging of the classical ballet La Bayadère, choreographed while his health was critically deteriorating, Panayiotou’s lecture-performance Dying on Stage is a meditation on the impossible theatrical representation of death. Exploring various literal, metaphorical, and symbolic deaths, the artist is examining…

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

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DADA ZÚRICH

In the midst of the First World War, having found refuge in neutral Switzerland, the first vanguard soirée organized by Hugo Ball at Cabaret Voltaire was held on February 5, 1916, in the city of Zurich, introducing the Dada movement. Several groups of artists, poets, musicians, and…

February 05, 2017 a April 30, 2017

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March 2017

Conversation about the role of art and archive collecting during the 20th century

José María Lafuente, Director & Founder of Archivo Lafuente and Patrick Charpenel, Estancia FEMSA – Casa Luis Barragán’s artistic director, conducted a conversation about the role of art and archive collecting during 20th Century art history, specifically about the process of conforming a collection with the first…

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

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DADA ZÚRICH

In the midst of the First World War, having found refuge in neutral Switzerland, the first vanguard soirée organized by Hugo Ball at Cabaret Voltaire was held on February 5, 1916, in the city of Zurich, introducing the Dada movement. Several groups of artists, poets, musicians, and…

February 05, 2017 a April 30, 2017

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February 2017

DADA ZÚRICH

In the midst of the First World War, having found refuge in neutral Switzerland, the first vanguard soirée organized by Hugo Ball at Cabaret Voltaire was held on February 5, 1916, in the city of Zurich, introducing the Dada movement. Several groups of artists, poets, musicians, and…

February 05, 2017 a April 30, 2017

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January 2017

Marius de Zayas


Marius de Zayas stands as one of the many centers within the unfathomable sphere of modern art. On March 13, 1880, de Zayas was born into a home that brimmed with public life and the ring of the family printing press in the port of Veracruz. Through…

October 01, 2016 a January 08, 2017

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May 2016

Secrets

Lope de Vega

A secret most secret

Oh such a secret, ladies, oh gallants,
Such a secret of love! Oh! Such a secret!
Such illustrious conception! Such subtle conceit!
By God, ‘tis a page out of me fecit Ioannes!

Now may all prudishness and gesticulation cease,
all interest, all jealous effect;
from this day forward,…

May 15, 2016 a July 10, 2016

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June 2016

Secrets

Lope de Vega

A secret most secret

Oh such a secret, ladies, oh gallants,
Such a secret of love! Oh! Such a secret!
Such illustrious conception! Such subtle conceit!
By God, ‘tis a page out of me fecit Ioannes!

Now may all prudishness and gesticulation cease,
all interest, all jealous effect;
from this day forward,…

May 15, 2016 a July 10, 2016

Past

July 2016

Secrets

Lope de Vega

A secret most secret

Oh such a secret, ladies, oh gallants,
Such a secret of love! Oh! Such a secret!
Such illustrious conception! Such subtle conceit!
By God, ‘tis a page out of me fecit Ioannes!

Now may all prudishness and gesticulation cease,
all interest, all jealous effect;
from this day forward,…

May 15, 2016 a July 10, 2016

Past

January 2016

Fetishistic Barragán

In presenting a selection of paintings, sculptures and photographies from Colección FEMSA, the exhibition Fetishistic Barragán approaches the architecture at Casa Barragán from the stance of its decorative objects. The selection of work is arranged in the spaces that make up the intimate housing area and the study: the…

January 04, 2016 a April 03, 2016

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February 2016

Fetishistic Barragán

In presenting a selection of paintings, sculptures and photographies from Colección FEMSA, the exhibition Fetishistic Barragán approaches the architecture at Casa Barragán from the stance of its decorative objects. The selection of work is arranged in the spaces that make up the intimate housing area and the study: the…

January 04, 2016 a April 03, 2016

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March 2016

Fetishistic Barragán

In presenting a selection of paintings, sculptures and photographies from Colección FEMSA, the exhibition Fetishistic Barragán approaches the architecture at Casa Barragán from the stance of its decorative objects. The selection of work is arranged in the spaces that make up the intimate housing area and the study: the…

January 04, 2016 a April 03, 2016

Past

April 2016

Fetishistic Barragán

In presenting a selection of paintings, sculptures and photographies from Colección FEMSA, the exhibition Fetishistic Barragán approaches the architecture at Casa Barragán from the stance of its decorative objects. The selection of work is arranged in the spaces that make up the intimate housing area and the study: the…

January 04, 2016 a April 03, 2016

Past

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