Stone, a multimedia exhibit

 

Across cultures and within the same cultures stone has served domestic, architectural, religious, cosmological, political, military, artistic functions, and more. Stone is also abundant in nature and it is the material of which mountains, canyons, caves, and some riverbeds are made. Stone evidences the passage of natural and historical time and like photography, it is a record of geological and human events.
 

The artists in this exhibition provide insights into stone as part of the human phenomenon and as a part of the natural world. Some of them have an almost obsessive fascination with stone while others have oeuvres where it is an important chapter but not the only one.

 
Actual stones are the result of many chemical and physical forces. They are formed by intense heat, slow crystallization, chemical reactions, fossilization, enormous pressures, etc. Poets like Octavio Paz, painters like Rene Magritte, sculptors like Isamu Noguchi, novelists like Kanan Makiya and environmental artists like Andy Goldsworthy have all reflected deeply upon stone. The exhibition "Stone" features the work of eighteen artists from twelve different countries:

Veronique Brill, "Seventh Sun"
Fernando Castro,
Mario Cravo Neto, "Heart", "Silence"
Alfredo De Stefano,
German Herrera,
Pedro Isztin,
Thomas Kellner,
Jan Pohribny, "Unshakeable Authority"
Fernando La Rosa,
Elaine Ling,
Jesus Moroles,
Warren Padula, "east 55"
Philipp Scholz-Rittermann,
Juan Javier Salazar,
Nida Sinnokrot,
George Szepesi,
Gerardo Suter , "Xochicalco" , "Tlaloc"
Mariano Zuzunaga.

These artists have contributed substantially to the body of works about stones by placing them in the crossroads of human dreams, fears, projects, beliefs, memories, interests and desires.
 
 
Fernando Castro Ramírez
Juan Jose Díaz Infante
Curators