Zona Maco 2022

“As a team, we are very happy to be ready to host the 2022 edition. Zona Maco will return to its traditional format at Centro Citibanamex with all the required protocols,” according to Founder Zélika García.

In keeping with the times, the fair also introduced the cryptocurrency token $ARTE within the Rally.io platform to unlock exclusive NFT collections, provide access to VIP events, and inclusion in the Web3 movement that protects the entire artistic ecosystem. This community token will be used to build new experiences for its global, artistic community, focused on empowering artists and building shared ownership for artists, collectors, galleries, and art lovers of our ecosystem.

Zona Maco Art Fair 2022

TRANSATLÁNTICO by GALERIE PHILIA

For its inaugural exhibition in Mexico, coinciding with Zona Maco, the international contemporary collectible design and fine art gallery partnered with House of Kirschner to present Transatlántico – a fully immersive exhibition of sculptural design from Latin America. Highlighting a new generation of designers, hailing from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic, in dialogue with leading designers from Europe exhibiting in Mexico for the first time. In line with Galerie Philia’s core philosophy, Transatlántico celebrates artistry as a medium to transcend societal, cultural, and geographical boundaries, using design to bridge Latin American and European discourses and influences within the creative sphere.

Florero Bola de la Colección Galeana 1/3 by Jorge Diego Etienne

"The aim was to create an authentic, specialized event around the Latin American design scene and its very distinct identity, but also include new collections by European designers," notes co-curator Alban Roger.

Viviens Dining Table by VIDIVIXI

Among the highlights are striking chairs by Cristián Mohaded who explores carpentry made using native woods, such as missionary moor cedar and other endemic Argentinian materials; geometric furniture and decorative objects by Breuer Estudio inspired by the pure lines of Constantin Brancusi’s sculptures; the botanical-inspired Ceiba lamps by Chuch Estudio inspired by the sacred tree native to Mexico; and the Narciso mirror by Ensanada-based Andres Monnier inspired by the myth of Narciso, and built with quarry stone from Jalisco and Baja California. These pieces are set alongside works by established artists and designers, including brutalist bronze furniture by Paris-based American Rick Owens, the orange Waldo sofa by Florence-based Italian designer Pietro Franceschini, and the ethereal Ghost Pendant light crafted by Mexican designers Héctor Esrawe and Emiliano Godoy and Los-Angeles born designer Brian Thoreen, using handblown glass, silicon tubing, and LED lights.

Neolithic Thinker Stool by Panarommma

"Transatlántico is founded on the idea of forming a transatlantic bridge between the contrasting cultural and artistic worlds of Europe and Latin America, identifying how we establish a creative discourse across the social boundaries associated with the geography that divides us," states co-founder Ygaël Attali.

Transátlantico is on view at House of Kirschner's gallery space, Avenida Ejército Nacional 676, in Mexico City from 8 to 12 February 2022.

LAGO by OMR

LAGO presented by OMR is a cultural project that emerged from the pandemic, drawn from the need to reimagine the current situation and rethink our relationship with public space, consumption habits, and relationship with nature. The opportunity arose to recover and resignify an emblematic building within the Bosque de Chapultepec, and give it a new purpose– one that included transforming the private into the public, the exclusive into the inclusive, and the social into the cultural by reopening an icon of 60s modernist architecture. The building was designed in 1964 by architect Alfonso Ramírez Ponce, and its defining feature includes an immense asymmetric hyperbolic paraboloid concrete ceiling. Restored to its original architectural splendor in collaboration with Naso Studio, the space debuted during Zona Maco as LAGO restaurant and the gallery and exhibition space with cultural programming known as ALGO.

Form Follows Energy Exhibition - Photography by Ramiro Chaves

LAGO/ALGO is an autonomous and independent project, conceived as a cultural platform combining art, architecture, culture, and cuisine.

ALGO's first exhibition, in collaboration with José García, is titled Form Follows Energy and presents over 45 pieces by 27 artists, including James Turrell, and explores themes such as memory and time, conflicts of our contemporary society, the fragility of the ecosystem, trauma as a portal for healing, and crisis as an opportunity for change.

LAGO Exterior

LAGO/ALGO
February 9th - August 16th
Bosque de Chapultepec,
Pista El Sope S/N,
2a Sección, Miguel Hidalgo, 11560

MASA Inc. by MASA GALLERY

MASA Inc. exhibition within the Torre Glorieta Cibeles includes a selection of works that straddle the line between art and design, challenging conceptions of space and function, and showcasing a compilation of pieces that represent MASA’s most pertinent desires: to provoke, to learn, to explore, to project, and to inquire.

Participating artists and designers include Manuel Bañó, Hollie Bowden, Frida Escobedo, Héctor Esrawe, Mario García Torres, Adeline de Monseignat, Rafael Prieto, Loup Sarion, Brian Thoreen, Joe Sweeney, ROOMS Studio, EWE Studio, and VISSIO.

Red Ribbon Circle by Brian Thoreen

Highlights include the Creek Bench by Frida Escobedo, made of iron and draped in nickel-finished ball chain; Seedscape by Adeline de Monseignat whose kinetic sculptures and installations are inspired by surrealism using mediums including Jalapa Travertine; the Acapulco Chair carved out of onyx by Mario García Torres; and Red Ribbon Circle by Brian Thoreen whose designs stem from an intimate encounter between the materials and the maker, manipulating raw forms into sharply geometrical pieces, allowing the specificity of each material surface to govern the final appearance of the object. “Nearly everything in this life begins with an act of imagination. It is an intoxicating process to reimagine the world as it pleases you, and then will it into physical existence with extreme specificity, without compromise,” Thoreen has said of his process.

OBJ-02 by Manu Bañó

MASA INC.
February 8, 2022 - February 26th, 2022
Torre Glorieta Cibeles, Mexico City

RITUS by UNNO GALLERY

The recently launched Unno Gallery is the first digital gallery dedicated to contemporary Latin American design. Inspired by the Spanish word meaning “one,” it refers to the idea that Latin American cultures, countries, and peoples share a common heritage that unites them as a whole.

Iuxta Marble Side Chair by Deceres Studio

“Ritus” is Unno’s first physical exhibition, presented Casa Ortega in the gardens designed by Luis Barragán, and showcasing commissioned works by a select group of the regions most promising designers including Baja California-based duo Deceres Studio, Spanish artist Alberto Oderiz, and Estudio Persona from Los Angeles. Barragán’s distinct garden house, surrounded by vegetation, serves as the ideal backdrop for these larger-than-life works.

UNNO at Casa Ortega, Mexico City
February 8th - 13th