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Last Saturday, for Zona Maco, Mexico City’s premier contemporary art fair, artist Andrew Birk led a walk from the historical center of the city to Ano
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Magical Mexico City. A city of poetry, revolution, and art. Centuries of history, spectacular colonial architecture, intimate courtyards, extravagance, cuisine, and culture, Mexico City is a global city that has it all. In the last several years, it has increasingly become an art world destination, renowned for its up-and-coming gallery scene, prominent art collections and museums, and acclaimed art fairs ZONA MACO and Material Art Fair. Here are the must-see fairs, galleries, museums, and other attractions for a week in the Mexican capital.
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In the current period of accelerated motion our minds and bodies move, change and adapt to the settings and networks we navigate daily.
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Born in 1981 in Paris, France, Adrien Missika lives and works in Geneva. Missika is an artist and co-curator of the art space Galerie 1m3 in Lausanne, which he co-founded in 2006. Primarily working with photography and video, Missika blurs the markers that distinguish fiction from both authentic document and pure illusion. Fascinated by architecture, landscape and archaeology, Missika constructs his pieces using a range of well-known visual cues culled from historical works, films, comic books and postcards. His staged photographs and videos of romantic landscapes, sci-fi narratives and natural occurrences are either created using imperfect models and stage-sets, or assembled out of the artist’s own travel pictures and found imagery. They point toward an infinite library of similar representations from which the viewer inevitably draws upon to complete the works’ unfinished illusion, thus creating a partial displacement that reveals the nature of our perceptions, expectations and desires. Missika installs his pieces using a variety of display mechanisms that create a further degree of distance between the viewer and the work.
Adrien Missika solo shows include: Tephra, École municipale des beaux-arts / galerie Édouard-Manet, Gennevilliers (2013); Impressions Botanique (working title), Bugada & Cargnel, Paris (forthcoming) (2013); A Walk in the Park, Kunsthaus Glarus (2013). Archipel, La Salle De Bains, Lyon (2012); The Sun Is Late, Galerie Crone, Berlin (2012). Geological Norms (sometimes repeated), Marz, Lisbon (2011); Tropical Prospects, SpazioA Gallery, Pistoia (2011). Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva (2010) and La Rada, Locarno (2010). “Space Between” as part of the Rencontres Internationales de photographie, Arles (2009), “HMI” as part of Module at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009), “Fabriques” at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2009) and “Koban” at Metro Square, Sankei building, Tokyo (2007). His work has also been shown as part of “Present Future”, Artissima 16, Turin (2009), “Swiss Art Awards 2009”, Art 40 Basel, Halle 3.2, Bale (2009), “Don’t Follow Me I’m Lost Too” at Substitut, Berlin (2009), “Panorama”, the 4th Biennial of Contemporary Art, Bourges (2008), “Accrochage 08” at Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2008) and “Enclaves d’Europe” at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2007).
Missika, won the 13th Prix Fondation d‘entreprise Ricard and was
the winner of fellowship and residency in India at KIIT University,
Artists in Labs program
Kiefer Hablitzel Award in 2011.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
