February 2020

The 6th participation of Ángulo Cero in Zona Maco was a selection of works by multidisciplinary artists and designers: María García Ibañez, Sumie García, Luisa Restrepo, Manuel Muñoz Gómez Gallardo, Carsten Lemme and Jose María Balmaceda.

The works on paper by Spanish artist María García Ibañez maintain a perfectly balanced dialogue between concept and method. Despite starting from traditional elements, her pieces are graphic reformulations that create new conceptual and visual values.

Mexican artist Sumie García manipulates her photographic images by reflecting on the possibilities of transforming the perception of the image and its materiality. And stressing the physical representation with the photographic representation.

As a bridge between art and design, Ángulo Cero presented the Cananea furniture collection by sculptor Manuel Muñoz Gómez Gallardo. Their passage from found scrap to fine art or from industrial to a maximum sophistication exhibits a unique freedom in his production and a natural balance in each object. This allows his transition from the artistic field to design to arise naturally and fluidly, evident in this body of work, which is the result of his extended stays in Cananea, Sonora, and collaboration with Grupo México.

The Mayan Blue collection by German designer Carsten Lemme is inspired by the mythical and ritual history of the Mayan blue pigment, its spread through the pre-Hispanic world, and the contemporary resignification of the dye. A series of furniture-sculptures molded-in volcanic stone and lacquered with an intense blue pigment inspired by the enigmatic recipe.

Colombian artist Luisa Restrepo and Mexican textile designer Jose María Balmaceda returned to Zona Maco with the continuation of their exclusive collections for Ángulo Cero. Restrepo with the Radiated City wall mirror continues her theme of the traces of the city we inhabit. At the same time, the Monolith rug collection by Balmaceda follows the line of graphic pieces that deepen the textures.