October 22, 2013–January 12, 2014
Centro Cultural de España en México
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
Embajada de España en México
Guatemala #18, Col Centro, C.P. 06010, México D.F.
Opening: October 22, 19hr
www.ccemx.org
www.somamexico.org
Demasiado futuro
Thesis exhibition: first generation of artists of the academic program, SOMA.
Until January 12, 2014 | Sala Donceles, Centro Cultural de España
The group exposition Demasiado futuro is an extension of SOMA’s Education Program at the Cultural Center of Spain (CCEMx), in Mexico City.
Demasiado futuro is not the only precise outcome arrived upon during the final six months of reflection and investigation by this group of 20 Latin American artists in collaboration with the historian and critic Daniel Montero. Demasiado futuro also marks the culmination of two years’ work realized by each artist—individually and collectively—as part of the program imparted by SOMA: a space dedicated to intercultural exchange and training in the arts. SOMA is not an official academic institution and does not have a dominant field of study. At SOMA, students propose their own work agenda, following their intuition, academic concerns and tastes. The mission of SOMA is to motivate their students to explore all possibilities and to discover the potential of their ideas. Based on the notion that artists learn best through the work, dialog, critiques, as well as debate and confrontation of other artists, thus are assembled the central tools of SOMA. In a similar format, CCEMx is not a a formal space of instruction, nevertheless, part of its institutional initiatives is to offer fertile spaces for the formation of artists of the next generations.
And precisely from these points, after long discussions and reflection, derives this exposition, which, far from being a show about first attempts, reveals a platform that allows us to get closer to the work of an interesting, diverse, and plural group of artists. While the future remains ahead of them, they have not stopped producing a profoundly relevant and prepositive body of work, as was evidenced in works on view in the CCEMEX space. From performance to painting, from installations, sound art, video and sculpture, all that is here can be seen as the product of each artists’ personal work process; a process that was put on view, and by this, displayed for critique, for the purpose of collectively exploring the possibilities of production; even today, a significant, substantial art that is in consonance with the passing time. We arrived at these conclusions. We hope you will enjoy.
