inauguración de las dos exposiciones / doble opening:
Friday, August 24, 7pm
YAM Gallery
Instituto Allende, Ancha de San Antonio 20
free
+52 415 150 6052 info@yamgallery.com

Queridos amigos,
Están cordialmente invitados a la inauguración de las exposiciones PEDIR LA LLUVIA de Sofía Echeverri, y MEDUSA de Cisco Jiménez en YAM Gallery.

Dear Friends,
You are very welcome to join us for the opening of the exhibitions PEDIR LA LLUVIA, by Sofía Echeverri, and MEDUSA, by Cisco Jiménez at YAM Gallery.

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Two individual exhibitions are to be inaugurated the same day at YAM Gallery on Friday the 24th of August, 7pm. Two Mexican artists, Sofía Echeverri (CDMX) and Cisco Jiménez (Cuernavaca), play with the traditions to renew the apparently immutable.

In "Pedir la lluvia" (Call for rain), Sofía Echeverri empowers the women by transferring on them a series of attributes usually given to men in traditional festivities of indigenous people. In Echeverri's paintings, qualities such as the physical force, communicating with the dead, evil, dancing or wearing a mask, are given to the female genre. She refers to festivals such as "la tigrada" in the state of Guererro during which men are dressed like tigers and hit chains on the pavement to mimic their roaring, asking for the rainy season to begin. While men are dancing, representing powerful beings and playing extravagant roles, women are held responsible for the feeding of the community, and often have to stay in the temples, praying and offering sacrificing contemplation. Sofía's project proposes to portray women wearing masks, swords and other traditional items associated with power. The exhibition "Pedir la lluvia" is composed by several big formats paintings, a series of ceramic figurines and etchings. The exhibition has been presented in Mexico City at the Carrillo Gil Museum in May 2018.

The work of Cisco Jiménez also explores the limits and possible transformations of tradition. For several years now he has been collaborating with artisans from San Agustín Oapan in the state of Guerrero, a region where the traditional potters produce a very specific kind of ceramic objects (jars, bowls and plates) decorated with red earthen colors. Cisco has provided the potters with drawings on paper of cassettemrecorders and boom-boxes (those objects now belong to a somehow old-fashioned pop culture of the 80's) and he has asked them to produce a re-interpretation in clay of these objects. The result is the improbable meeting point between industrialism and time-honored craft, between the globalized urbs and the remoted mountains of Guerrero: small clay sculptures of technological items with all their features hand-painted: buttons, wires and antennas. Why do we experience sympathy for objects? Why do we want to touch them and own them? The ones created in common between Cisco Jiménez and the women artisans of San Agustín Oapan gather our knowledges and give us a comforting feeling of understanding the world, with humor. The exhibition will be completed by drawings in different formats.