Epilogue / POM & JR. Always all of us / Patricia Ortiz Monasterio -- A world just around the corner / Jaime Riestra -- Plaza Río de Janeiro. High ceilings and slanted floors / POM & JR -- A CV of exhibitions, 1983-2015 / Daniel Garza Usabiaga -- 1983-1989 (Selected Exhibitions). Strange encounters of the third kinds / Patricia Sloane -- Testimonial / Eloy Tarcisio -- "La inocencia perdida". Text for Javier de la Garza's exhibition / Fernando del Paso -- Testimonial / Rocío Maldonado -- "Hierro y óxido". Text for Paul Nevin's exhibition / Roger von Gunten -- Testimonial / Estella Hussong -- "Were we or did we seem to be?" Testimonio / Rubén Ortiz Torres -- Testimonial / Germán Venegas -- "Alberto Gironella or the exterminating angel". Text for the exhibition "Trampantojos" / José Pierre -- Testimonial / Elizabeth Ferrer -- "Mitos y realidades". Text for Dulce María Núñez's exhibition / Elena Pnoiatowska -- "Vestiges of the wind". Text for the exhibition "Retratos de mexicanos 1893-1989" / Adolfo Castañón -- Testimonial / Edward Sullivan -- Testimonial / Robert Littman -- (Re)collecting neo-Mexicanism: a capricious test / Teresa Eckmann -- 1990-1999 (Selected Exhibitions). "Step by step": testimonial / Miguel Castro Leñero -- Testimonial / Alejandra Yturbe & Mariana Pérez Amor -- "Figures of romance, taking Mexico apart: the recent work of Mónica Castillo". Text for the exhibition "Presentacíon en sociedad" / Charles Merewether -- "Eclipsing: gritty and successful": testimonial / Carla Stellweg -- Text for the exhibition "Ray Smith" / Guillermo Santamarina -- "Today, the eighties": testimonial / Francesco Pellizzi -- "Diego Toledo: inspired science". Text for the exhibition "Mundo Animal" / Cuauhtémoc Medina -- "Four Brazilians: Catunda, Varejão, Zerbini and Edgard de Souza". Text for the exhibition "De Río a Río. Cuatro artistas brasileños de la Galería Thomas Kohn" / Paulo Herkenhoff -- Testimonial / Fernando Castro Flórez -- "Cantos rituales". Text for Gerardo Suter's exhibition / Olivier Debroise -- "Archeology for the future". A conversation with Melanie Smith / María Guerra -- Testimonial / Melanie Smith -- Testimonial / Mónica Castillo -- Testimonial / Yishai Jusidman -- "Portrait of the young artists as a man". Text for the exhibition "Arturo Elizondo. Obra reciente" / Dan Cameron -- Testimonial / Sylvia Weber -- Testamonial / Georgina Quintana -- "The body of absence". Text for Marina Núñez's exhibition "Pinturas" / Miguel Cereceda -- "Sumos". Text for Yishai Jusidman's exhibition / Osvaldo Sánchez -- "Patricia's and Jaime's generosity". Testimonial / Maria de Corral -- "The photographs of Maruch". Text for Marcuh Sántiz's exhibition "Creencias" / Carlota Duarte -- Text for the exhibition "Situacionismo. Un grupo de fotografías" -- OMR: at century's end / Guillermo Santamarina -- 2000-2009 (Selected Exhibitions). Testimonial / Pablo Vargas Lugo -- "Pyramid panoram". Text for Pablo Vargas Lugos exhibition / Larissa Harris -- Testimonial / Manuel Ocampo -- Testimonial / Alma Ruiz-Furlan -- Testimonial / Graham Gillmore -- Testimonial / Patrick Charpenel -- "Here and there": testimonial / Dan Cameron -- Testimonial / Sagrario Pérez Soto -- "My reencounter with contemporary art in Mexico": testimonial / Ella Cisneros -- Testimonial. Iñaki Boonillas -- Testimonial / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer -- "The expressivity of space". Text for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's exhibition "Some thing happen more often than all of the time", 52º La Biennale di Venezia, 2007 / Manuel DeLanda -- Testimonial / Aldo Chaparro -- "OMR25". Group exhibition text / Patricia Ortiz Monasterio -- Testimonial / Sean Kelly -- "[sic]". Group exhibition text / Patricia Ortiz Monasterio -- "This is not an invitation, it's a presentation. Group exhibition text / Pia Camil -- Between the garden of earthly delights (clo-o-o-sed), abundance in a market (saturated), and know-how (consolidated) / Víctor Palacios -- 2010-2015 (Selected Exhibitions). Testimonial / Hedy Fischer & Randy Shull -- Testimonial / Jose Dávila -- Testimonial / Alberto García-Alix -- "The space between now and then -- part I". Group exhibition text / Natalie Kovacs -- "Chronicle of a fallen wall": testimonial / Jorge Méndez Blake -- Testimonial / Issa M. Benítez -- "El sol es un hoyo". Text for Ryan Brown's exhibition / Maite Garbayo Maetzu -- Testimonial / Raúl Cárdenas (Torolab) -- "Betweencurtains: open, draw, come" / Sofia Broid, Pia Camil & Gabriela Jauregui -- Testimonial / Pia Camil -- Testimonial / Sam Keller -- "La vorágine". Group exhibition text / Oscar Roldán-Alzate -- Testimonial / James Oles -- Testimonial / Ramiro Martínez -- Testimonial / Graciela de la Torre -- Testimonial / Eugenio López -- Córdoba 100 / Mateo & Cristobal Riestra Ortiz Monasterio -- Testimonial / Kerstin Erdmann -- Epilogue / POM & JR.
Summary:
A richly illustrated history of Mexico City's leading contemporary art gallery, OMR. Gathering materials from the OMR archive and being its first tribute, this richly illustrated publication traces the gallery's history, including a visual timeline, biographical narratives, academic texts, archival documents, suggestive visual material, the testimonies of many who have shared experiences with the gallery, and texts by curator and art critic Osvaldo Sánchez, art historian and academic Teresa Eckmann, art historian and curator Daniel Garza Usabiaga, artist and curator Guillermo Santamarina, art historian and curator Victor Palacios, and architect Mateo Riestra.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.