Pintura Contemporánea en México
Puebla, MX. March 2024

Contemporary Painting in Mexico
Amanda de la Garza and Paula Duarte / Curators

This exhibition aims to carry out a counterpoint, the search for
formal and conceptual relationships between artists of different
generations, with very diverse questions about the pictorial.

More than thinking about a state of the art on painting, it is
about an exercise of dialogue between various artists who
have consolidated their practice around the pictorial substrate;
who have made their conceptual research a continuous
experimentation and technical innovation and who persist with
a latent critical curiosity; exploring schemes beyond the two
dimensional that envision it as a Method of projection and
concretion of ideas. New artists make up this research: Ana
Bidart, Bayrol Jiménez, Elsa-Louise Manceaux, Celeste, Cecilia
Barreto, Francisco Taka Fernández, Luis Hampshire, Leo Marz
and Néstor Jiménez.

Through the selection presented here, certain creative concerns
that determine the artistic work are traced, among them: thematic
affinities, similar compositional tools that investigate complex
questions, the use of the nullity of the pictorial stratum as voids
that represent actions, movements and bodies, or material
experiments that enrich the interpretation in the aesthetic
experience of the observer. We also find the drive for gestures,
or interests in the interpellation with the history of art, the
reading of new forms of information –data, artificial intelligence,
virtuality–, the experimental transition to other ways, techniques
and languages that address the dialectical relationship between
containment-expansion of painting.

The exhibition is divided into five thematic cores: Landscape and
construction, Material concretions, Compositional mutations,
Perceptions of displacement and Gestures and edge. These
groups propose a route that aims, beyond cementing certainties,
to provoke reflections based on the relationships we have figured out.