Friday, December 21, 6pm
YAM Gallery, Instituto Allende, Ancha de San Antonio 20
free
+52 415 150 6052 info@yamgallery.com

Double Opening - YAM Gallery

Dear Friends,
You are very welcome to join us for the opening of the exhibitions CRONICAS DEL DESORDEN by Javier Areán, and NOMADA, by Agustín González at YAM Gallery.
Danilo Filtrof presents "VIOLACIONES ARTIFICIALES" in the new section Escaparate.

More about the artists and their work below

Queridos amigos,
Están cordialmente invitados a la inauguración de las exposiciones CRONICAS DEL DESORDEN de Javier Areán, y NOMADA de Agustín González en YAM Gallery.
Danilo Filtrof presenta "VIOLACIONES ARTIFICIALES" en la nueva sección Escaparate.

Javier Areán's painting delves into memory and materializes remembrance. Whether personal or historical, recalls emerge sometimes with great clarity (the floral pattern on the curtains of our childhood's home), and sometimes it is more diffuse (was it summer or autumn?). In Areán's paintings, the different levels of precision in memory appears in the adjacency of details and stains; the scene can also be clearly depicted but is out of shot; the colors are faded down, as if in an old family picture. Indeed Areán borrows to cinema a certain treatment of image resulting in a latent melancholy. His series "Crónicas del desorden" (Chronicles of disarray) is actually very narrative. Together with him we go back and forth from memory to reality, we intend on making the focus between past and present, and Areán's paintings, far from losing accuracy, seem more real to our sensibility.

Agustín González on his side will show his new series of paintings titled "Nómada". Since Mexico City earthquake on the 19th of September 2017, Agustín has become a "Nómada": his studio downtown has been used since then as a home to some friends and their families who lost their house. Pushed out of his studio, Agustín took advantage of the situation and decided to travel. He has been painting on the go since then: Japan, Germany, Chile and back to Mexico. His series of small transportable format of acrylic on canvas are to be seen as a travel log.

This exhibition will also be the first inauguration of a new section of the gallery: the window on the Ancha de San Antonio will be used to present the work of an artist, asked to produce a "site-specific" piece. Danilo Filtrof, artist, curator and director of the very cutting-edge contemporary art projects "Museo Insular" and "Proyecto Showroom" will be the first to show in "Escaparate".