Embassy of México in United Kingdom

     Metinides worked as a photographer of events from 1948 until his retirement in 1979, having taken thousands of photos and captured hundreds of stories around Mexico City, such as crime scenes, car crashes and natural disasters.

      He has showed his photographs at Casa de América, Madrid; la Central de Arte Guadalajara; The Photographers' Gallery London and Anton Kern Gallery in New York.

     He has won numerous prizes and received recognition from the Mexican government,   journalists’ associations, rescue and judicial corps and Kodak of Mexico. In 1997 he received the “Espejo de Luz” (Mirror of Light) Prize, awarded to the country’s most outstanding photographer.

     On this occasion, in addition to the selection of photographs, there will also be a screening of his new documentary
 'The man who saw too much'.

     Chalton Gallery in collaboration with the Mexican Embassy in the UK is delighted to present the first exhibition in the UK of Mexican Artist Arturo Ortiz-Struck ‘Financial Architectures’. The exhibition features works from the last fifteen years including photography, video, newspaper and topographic archives, artist books, and three-dimensional paintings. The show also includes various ready-mades and appropriated objects reflecting on the social life of money and the spatial traces left by accelerated financial flows.

     The work of Arturo Ortiz-Struck is a visual and spatial investigation of suburban life in Mexico and the forms of intimacy that it allows. Working with multiple media, it renders visible expressions of spatial violence affecting the urban poor, in particular those resulting from the entanglement of housing and financial markets. Having worked for decades as architect in informal settlements located in the peripheries of Mexico City, Ortiz’s research-led art investigates how processes of abstraction and planning condition the forms life, leisure, mobility, and death in the suburbs.

     In order to portray geographies of hope and disenchantment, desire and decay, the artist combines the use of prosthetic visual technologies with elements of design. His gaze is also shaped by a return to the Situationist dérive, whereupon chance and the affective dimensions of space shed light on what has been left void, forgotten, and occult in today’s financialized models of mass-scale housing.

Financial Architectures is curated by Mara Polgovsky.

Place:
96 Chalton Street, Camden, London UK NW1 1HJ

Date:
27th January – 11th February 2017

Web page:
http://bit.ly/2j99IPd

     This year their members Bostich & Fussible will be performing at East London’s arts venue Rich Mix. Nortec has been very well received by the international music scene. The collective has participated in numerous festivals sharing the stage with artists like Beck, Lenny Kravitz, Kronos Quartet and Ennio Morricone. Among their awards, Bostich and Fusible had received several nominations for the Grammy Awards. They also produced the music for the latest Cirque Du Soleil show Luzia in 2016. They performed in Glastonbury Festival las year and their last two London shows were with Carlos Vives at The Royal Albert Hall in June 2016 and as part of the Mexican Wrestling extravaganza, Lucha Future, at the same venue in 2015.

     The original and popular Mexican band, Mexrissey, will be performing in the UK (Glasgow, Brighton, Manchester, London, and Birmingham), as part of their international tour to promote their new album “No Manchester”.

     Morrissey (The Smiths) has always been a prophet with honour in Mexico. His songs of love, loss and longing, with powerful imagery and metaphors, have found a huge audience in our country.

     Now the love has returned, with a band from Mexico City reinventing Morrissey’s and The Smiths’ songs. Camilo Lara, the force inside Mexican Institute of Sound, has put together in Mexrrissey, a team of musical gunslingers from Mexico’s finest bands. The band has had an incredible journey since 2015 with a sold out mainstage debut at the Barbican in The La Linea Festival in London, a UK tour (including a moving sold out Manchester gig) and a triumphant show at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in New York and The Regent in Los Angeles.

     The band’s debut album, “No Manchester”, released in March 2016, was recorded in Mexico City and Tucson, Arizona. The album was produced by Camilo Lara and mixed by Jack Lahana, winner of multiple Grammys for his work with Phoenix and Daft Punk. “No Manchester” is a Mexican slang phrase meaning “No Way” or “Are you kidding me?” but more than that, it means that these songs, born in Manchester, have grown up, changed their hair and clothes, and are now living in Mexico under a new identity.