Desde el fondo del tiempo
Subtitle: From the depths of time
By: Mauro Giaconi ; textos, José Luis Paredes Pacho [and three others]
Contributors: Museo Universitario del Chopo
Edition: Primera edición = First edition.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9786070295614
Subjects: Exhibitions; Rocks in art; Installations (Art); Art
Other titles: From the depths of time; Desde el fondo del tiempo.; Desde el fondo del tiempo. English.
Description: Mauro Giaconi (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977, lives and works in Mexico City) works against the boundaries of a discipline that is conventionally understood as marks on a surface. In his practice, he continually redefines the act of drawing using autobiographical reflection, historical references andhis anchoringin a present-day commitment with the awareness of someone who has lived in different latitudes and grew up under a dictatorship. The exhibition comprises three works that present his working processes: an ephemeral mural that covers the walls of the room, incorporating architectural elements from the museum's immediate surroundings; the installation Alma (Soul) made up of a heap of rocks formed from empty plastic bags and finally, the museumœs storage room is used to project the video Línea transversal (Transversal Line), which records an action inspired by an episode from the military dictatorship in Uruguay. The fourth activations in the exhibition was by collective Los Vecinos del Ritmo (Nadia Lartigue, Juanfran Maldonado and Esthel Vogrig) with the intervention "Tiempo de Piedras", where the stones - a key element in Giacconi's work - were the main theme. They are a performance band that uses their bodies to create digital sounds that, in turn, generate different movements.
Notes: Cover title.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City from March 12 to August 15, 2016.

Limited edition of 500 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Presentación / José Luis Paredes Pacho; title: Desde el fondo del tiempo / Itzel Vargas Plata; title: Construir objetos, actuar el conocimiento : la estética de la permanencia en la obra de Mauro Giaconi / Francesco Scasciamacchia; title: Discurso a las piedras / Textos apropiados y manipulados por los Vecinos del Ritmo; title: Activaciones; title: Presentation / José Luis Paredes Pacho; title: From the depth of time / Itzel Vargas Plata; title: Constructing objects, performing knowledge : the aesthetic of impermanence in the work of Mauro Giaconi / Francesco Scasciamacchia; title: Speech to the stones / Texts appropriated and manipulated by Vecinos del Ritmo; title: Activations; title: Biografía del artista = Artist biography; title: Lista de obra = List of works.