OMR (1983-2015): Placing Mexico in Contemporary Art's Map

Editorial: Turner/A&r Press/Coleccion Jumex

Autor: Fundación Jumex

Año de edición: 2020

Edición: 1

N° Páginas: 552

Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda

Descripción: This is the story f two young people, Patricia Ortiz Monasterioand Jaime Riestra, who became a power couple, together creatinga space, the Galería OMR, into which they poured their cmmitment, determination, and vision, and through which they actively shaped the history of contemporary art in Mexico. Charted on the walls and floors of that vessel are three decades, not yuet well-understood, of artistic practice: dynamic, polemic, multi-faceted, and expansive. TERESA ECKMANN. This historical survey of the first three decades (1983-2015) of the activities of the Galería OMR is the intertwined with the vibrant first-person accounts of the gallery's founders, Jaime Riestra and Patricia Otiz Monasterio. The result is a story of great dynamism and vitality, of what is and has been the explosion of contemporary art in Mexico.