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Following the huge success of Day of the Dead celebrations at the British Museum in the framework of the Dual Year Mexico-UK 2015, this year, three distinguished colleges from Europe’s largest art and design university, the University of the Arts London, will stage a Day of the Dead Festival for the first time.
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The Mexican Embassy in collaboration with Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts with will host the Day of the Dead Celebrations on the 1st of November. The program includes workshops, lectures and performances to celebrate the unique and special way we have to remember our loved ones.
Three Mexican Artists, Mauricio Cervantes, Demián Flores and Pedro Mendoza Ortega have been commissioned to produce this project.
These will include:
- A traditional Altar that will be exhibited alongside the work created by students from the UAL and the National Art & Design Saturday Club in collaboration with artist Demian Flores in the Triangle Space.
- A modern interpretation of the traditional altar created by Wimbledon College of Arts Students BA(Hons) Technical Arts and Special Effects students with Pedro Mendoza Ortega in The Henry Moore Courtyard.
- An exhibition of work by Chelsea’s Design Research Studio 3, BA(Hons) Interior and Spatial Design working with Colin Priest (Course Leader), Takako Hasegawa (Associate Leader) and artist Mauricio Cervantes in the Cookhouse.
- The Parade Ground will host a performance created by Chelsea’s 1st year BA (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design students and Chelsea’s staff in collaboration with local charity Millbank Creative Works, designed and curated by artist Francis Thorburn, who will create a procession inspired by the Day of the Dead.
- One of the main attractions of the event will be created by Mexican artist Tupac Martir, who will project a series of images/video-mapping inspired by the Day of the Dead on the Chelsea’s building façade.
- Food and drinks will be available for purchase in the Chelsea Parade Ground. Free face-painting (catrinas), courtesy of London College of Fashion students, will be available in the Canteen.
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Programme 17:30 – 20:30
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Face Painting (for kids)
16:00 – 16:30
Where: Canteen Chelsea College of arts
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Workshop Javier Calderón
16:00 – 18:00
Where: Canteen Chelsea College of arts
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Food & drinks
17:30 -20:30
Where: Chelsea Parade Ground
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Face Painting (for everyone)
18:00 – 20:00
Where: Canteen Chelsea College of arts
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Performance (90 students) + Tupac Martir
19:00 -20:00
Where: Chelsea Parade Ground
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All events are subject to weather conditions and may change without notice.
Where?
Chelsea College of Arts
(16 John Islip Street,
London
SW1P 4JU)
When?
1st November, 2016
Web page:
http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2016/11/1/Day-of-the-Dead/
Free entrance
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The altars and exhibitions at The Triangle Space, The Henry Moore Courtyard and The Cookhouse will remain open to the public until Friday the 4th of November.
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Mexican Artists Participating
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Mauricio Cervantes
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Cervantes graduated from the National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM. Passionate about the encounter with ancient cultures and the metamorphosis that takes place in the ruins of the same, the visual metaphors that recreate the erosion of real chemical processes acting on the matter, or are interested in which impinge on their symbolic content through new semantic.
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Recreate the remains of ancient frescoes through visual codes within the classical abstraction. In 2006 discovers a material identified as the modern version of the fresco: hydraulic tiles made of cement, which produced mechanical and artisanal methods multiply patterns that modular would compose his new “pictorial canvases” assemblies or tile puzzle worn by time in replacing pigments and binders of their antique fabrics by chemical alteration of surfaces with corrosives. Prolific producer of fabrics, in recent years addresses the pictorial practices when they exceed the conventional limits: when the paint easel to leave the border on sculpture, architecture and installation. His work has graced the halls in dozens of places in Mexico and abroad.
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Demián Flores
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Flores graduated from the National School of Plastic Arts at Mexico’s National University (UNAM) with an honorific mention in the Visual Arts. One of Mexico’s more internationally renowned artists, he has won numerous scholarships and residencies and has been a member of the National System of Creators set up by the National Endowment for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) since 2010.
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Founder of La Curtiduría and Taller Gráfica Actual in his native Oaxaca, Demián takes a critical, contemporary approach to the reinterpretation of the traditions of the Zapotec people. Casa Lamm (2010, 2009, 2008, 2004, 2001 and 1999), the University of Essex (England, 2005), the Museum of Mexico City (Mexico City, 2006), the Hilario Galguera gallery (Mexico City, 2007), Latin American Masters (Santa Monica, California, United States, 2009) and the Talmart Gallery (Paris, France, 2011) have all staged solo exhibitions of his work, which forms part of the collections of the Contemporary Art Museum (MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City), University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (England), Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM, Valencia, Spain), Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico), Panstwowe Muzeum (Majdanek, Poland) and Casa de las Américas (Havana, Cuba).
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Pedro Mendoza Ortega
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The young talented Mexican artist, Pedro Mendoza Ortega is descended from a long tradition of wood carvers craftsmen of the town of San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca. Since his birth, he was influenced by the artistic sensibilities of the community, he has devoted his entire life to woodcarving parallel he has immersed in other artistic techniques such as paper, ceramics, metalwork and handling different organic and synthetic materials.
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He has participated as a trainer in the Oaxaca Cultural House, Textile museum, C.I.N.O, Handcraft´s house of Oaxaca and has been a contributor to the workshop of Jacobo y María Ángeles. Likewise, he has participated in various festivals in the city of Oaxaca, such as “Punto de encuentro” y “1er Festival de Calaveras”. Normally his works explore themes and controversial figures (demons, deaths and animals in erotic situations), while retaining their ancestral roots.
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Javier Calderón
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Javier has curated several exhibitions of Contemporary Mexican and British Art both in Mexico and in the UK. In 2015 he opened Chalton Gallery, where he showcases Mexican and British Art. On the same year he also curated the exhibition Immersive Frames in Mexico City with the support of the British Council and Bancomer Foundation, this exhibition included Turner Prize winner 2012 Elizabeth Price.
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In Mexico he recently organized an auction of Contemporary British Art in collaboration with Morton Auction House and an exhibition of contemporary British Art for the Metro Polanco, which includes Royal Academician Artist Eileen Cooper and 12 more artists. Some of the Mexican Artists he has shown in The UK include; Tania Candiani, Manuel Rocha, Arcangel Constantini, Yoshua Okón, Hector Falcón, Luis Felipe Ortega, Israel Martinez, Mario de Vega, Pola Weiss and many other. Corporations, charities and National Institutions such as The Arts Council of England, CONACULTA, Bancomer Foundation and other institutions have founded his projects. He has also worked for various institutions including; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Royal Academy, Victoria & Albert Museum, National Gallery, Royal Palaces, among others. Calderon has designed and ran adults and family workshops for The Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool, V&A Museum of Childhood, The Wellcome Collection, The British Museum and in many other venues.
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