Works by 200 artists from 20 countries

MATERIAL FAIR VOL. 11 WITH RECORD REPRESENTATION OF LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS

Until next Sunday, February 9, 2025, Expo Reforma becomes the stage for one of the most important meetings of Art Week in Mexico City, which exhibits the work of 200 artists from 20 countries and 35 cities

In this edition, the PQCO, LLANO and Aberrante galleries present work by artists who have been part of the Creation System of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico

Within the framework of Art Week in Mexico City, the Material Fair Vol. 11 opens its doors and begins a new decade of life with the record participation of 56 percent of exhibitors from Latin America, which reflects the deep commitment to the creative energy of the region and its growing global influence.

For its eleventh edition, which runs until February 9, 2025 at the Expo Reforma convention center, Material exhibits the work of 200 artists from 20 countries and 35 cities through 72 galleries spread over two floors.

In this space, national and international galleries such as Livia Benavides, Espacio Continuo, Campeche, Hannah Hoffman, Instituto de Visión, Mickey, General Expenses, Des Bains, Cerámica Suro, N.A.S.A.L., Más Allá and Shahin Zarinba, among others, open themselves to dialogue with the public, collectors and the artistic community to strengthen a solid network of collaboration.

It is worth noting that in this edition of Feria Material artists are participating who are or have been beneficiaries of the Creation System, an institution of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, such as Joaquín Segura, Yolanda Ceballos and Leo Marz, who received the stimulus of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA), and Elsa-Louise Manceaux and Andrew Roberts, beneficiaries of the support for Young Creators, they belong to the PQCO gallery.

At the Llano Gallery there are Enrique López Llamas from Young Creators, Lorena Ancona from the National System of Art Creators and Tania Ximena from the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments (FPCC); while at Aberrant there are Salvador Jacobo from FPCC and José Luis Arroyo-Robles from the Program of Incentives for Artistic Creation and Development (PECDA) Michoacán.

The current edition also presents the second generation of PROYECTOS, the acclaimed Material program supported by Del Castillo y Castro Abogados, which promotes a new generation of independent contemporary art projects in Mexico. Six organizations from different regions of the country, from Oaxaca to Baja California, show their work to connect with audiences at a national and international level.

Under the motto of “The most beloved contemporary art fair in Latin America,” the 11th edition of Material features the presence of 56 percent of artists from Mexico and Latin America, thus reaffirming the commitment to the talent of the region and giving projection to their work inside and outside their country.

It is also a space in which collective and community art find a platform that allows works created from the tradition of indigenous peoples to be brought to other parts of Mexico and the world.

“We need to represent ourselves, how we want to be seen and how we describe ourselves from others, that is why we feel that we must occupy these spaces, which although they seem centralist, we are in charge of doing our thing from the peripheries, which is the fight for the socialization of art and social justice through art,” said Joel Pérez, artist representing the MUY Gallery, made up of more than 20 artists from Chiapas.

In turn, Karla Torres Cano, who represents Cerámica Suro, a ceramics factory based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, which has an art department and artistic residencies in which works are produced that are normally directly exported outside the country.

“Nobody in Guadalajara or the country saw these works, that is why we have this mission of having the works presented first in the country and then exported. That is why we also come here instead of going to another fair,” said Torres Cano about the importance of Material to spread her work within Mexico.

Meanwhile, Diego Ascencio, representative of the Escombro gallery in Guadalajara, believes that a greater representation of national artists in this type of fair helps the public to get rid of the idea that foreign art has more value.

“I think that the level of Mexican artists is really on par with any artist from anywhere in the world. In fact, we see this with names like José Dávila and Gabriel Rico, who are Mexican and are making it bigger outside of Mexico than inside,” says Ascencio.

To learn more about the entire Material Fair Vol. 11 programme, you can visit the website (material-fair.com/es/platform/feria-material-vol-11)
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