The preeminent fair in Latin America that cemented Mexico City on the international art circuit celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
With 212 exhibitors from 25 countries, this year’s edition of ZⓈONAMACO maintained its intimate curation of contemporary and modern art, design, photography, and antiques. In celebration of the 20th anniversary, ZⓈONAMACO announced the debut of FORMA, a unique anniversary program that invites galleries with a longstanding history at the fair to present historical or site-specific projects and the Erarta Foundation ZⓈONAMACO Art Prize, a groundbreaking $100,000 award split between the artist whose work is selected and the gallery representing them will. A unique feature of the prize is that fair attendees will determine the awardee on the final day rather than a traditional jury.
Cristin Tierney Gallery’s program concentrates on artists engaging with critical theory and art history, which is present in the works by Claudia Bitrán, François Bucher, Alois Kronschlaeger, and Francisco Ugarte. Claudia Bitrán’s Degas-inspired works depicting the hyperbolic world of social media look to back up dancers from Brittney Spears’s choreographer’s Instagram to provide the movement in her wispy pastels. Noting her goal “is to present candid, vulnerable, and spectacular points of inflection that these young bodies perform.” The flow of Claudia’s dancers’ contrasts with Alois Kronschlaeger, Francisco Ugarte, and François Bucher’s rigid architectural and text-based works exploring time, space, light, multi-dimensional fields, and science fiction, such as time “travel.”
