Zona Maco 2022, the great Latin American fair returns

The Zona Maco art fair regains its presence and opens its doors at the Centro Citibanamex, located in Mexico City, from February 9 to 13, 2022. Zona Maco was founded in 2002 by Zélika García with four events that are held annually at the Citibanamex Center at the CDMX. Considered the largest contemporary art fair in Latin America, it will have the presence of 200 international galleries and 4 thematic sections: Ejes, Arte Contemporáneo, Diseño, Salón and Foto. The first section integrates four zones, the main zone has the attendance of 70 international galleries that will present / display an ample representation of international artists. Ejes will be curated by the Cuban Direlia Lazo i Sud, curated by the Brazilian Luiza Texeira de Freitas and finally, Art Modern, by the Mexican Esteban King.

As for the design exhibition, Cecilia León de la Barra is the curator of this exhibition that makes up: furniture, jewelry, textiles, decorative objects, historical pieces and objects that are limited edition. The Salon part exhibits antiques, decorative art, furniture, folk art and artifacts created before 1960. In the Photo section are the galleries that show the work of multiple photographers and video artists. In the main section, will be present The selection committee was in charge of Ben Loveless (Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin / CDMX), Inés López Quesada (Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara / Madrid), Fernando Mesta (House of Gaga, Los Angeles / CDMS) and Teófila Monclova (Proyectos Monclova, CDMX).

Juan Canela, artistic director of Zona Maco 2022, in a past interview with the media explained that after the uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, work was done on this project with the appropriate sanitary measures, to continue giving support for the promotion of art in Mexico. “It is an edition where the main objective is to understand the essence and the main values of existing of a fair like Zona Maco. It was important to look for the best circumstances and opportunities to return to the meeting ", said Juan Canela.

Among the national participants is the presence of the Zielinsky Gallery (Barcelona) which participates in this fair with a selection of works produced by Romy Pocztaruk (1983) and Guillermos García Ruiz (1988). Both artists present research that takes as its starting point the relationship between a modernity project and its heritage or the collapse of Latin America. Romy Pocztaruk presents a series of photographs taken between 2011 and 2013 at different points on the Trans-Amazon Highway, the construction of which began during the military government of Emilio Garrastazu Medici (1969-1974), which was designed to cross longitudinally. the country from east to west. As a result of a political strategy nurtured by the dictatorship during the so-called Brazilian "economic miracle", the implementation of this road symbolized the possibility of colonization and national integration, advancing a large and modern Brazil to the status of a world power. . For his part, Guillermo Garcia Cruz presents a series of works that play with the legacy of the formal legacy of the twentieth century: minimal art and its articulations in Latin American concretism, specifically within the Uruguayan-Argentine MADI movement of the 1950s. According to the group of artists, the painting does not have to be necessarily conditioned by the rectangular canvas, on the contrary, the shape of the canvas must follow the structure of the painting. From this perspective, Guillermo found the need to work on researching how at least change can affect the whole structure.

Lundgren Gallery (Palma) also attends Zona Maco where it will present six new works by London-based artist Igor Moritz (1996, Lubin, Poland). Igor's drawings and paintings flirt with mimesis breaking all the rules of perspective, proportion and realism. With oil painting or crayons, Igor creates vivid, almost fauvist backdrops, and characters who look at the viewer desperately. An electric color palette that saturates its visceral representations of loneliness and interpersonal confusion. He transforms and composes perspective, space and figures in a way that immediately makes one think of Schiele or Matisse, but Moritz captures with a new mixture of expressive lines, a fleeting moment of human existence in works laden with emotion.

The other participants include La Caja Negra Gallery (Madrid), CarrerasMugica (Bilbao), Cerquone Gallery (Madrid / Caracas), Fernando Pradilla (Madrid), Heinrich Ehrhardt Gallery (Madrid), Isabel Hurley Gallery (Málaga) and Travesía Four (Madrid / Guadalajara / Mexico City).