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OPC-Dossier-English.Pdf ABOUT OPC What we do: •Contemporary Art Exhibitions • Talks • Lectures• Workshops • Movie projections • Literary Events• Performances• Documentaries Ofcina de Proyectos Culturales (Ofce for Cultural Projects ) is an independent non-proft arts organization dedicated to fostering dialogue through exhibitions, round table discussions, public art and, arts education programs. OPC works with artists, architects, curators, academics, and writers who explore ideas that shape our city and to develop cultural programming that is frmly rooted in Puerto Vallarta, yet international in scope. In just four years, OPC has established itself as a vibrant institution recognized both nationally and internationally. The organization was founded by arts professionals committed to the cultural development of Puerto Vallarta. OPC works with artists, architects, curators, academics, and writers who explore ideas that shape our city. OPC develops cultural programming that is frmly rooted in Puerto Vallarta OPC is born with the aim of contributing to the refection on the contemporary sociocultural and artistic environment, with the vocation to share with Puerto Vallarta and its visitors. In just four years, OPC has established itself as a dynamic institution recognized both nationally and internationally. Located in the heart of downtown Puerto Vallarta, at the crossroads of tourists and locals, the OPC building has been transformed from an abandoned Sherwin-Williams paint shop into a dynamic interdisciplinary space dedicated to contemporary arts through a generous donation to the use of the building, two blocks from the boardwalk and meters from the oldest elementary school in the area. Founded by arts professionals committed to the cultural development of Puerto Vallarta, OPC works with artists, architects, curators, academics and writers who explore ideas that shape our city. OPC develops cultural programming righteously OUR FACILITIES OPC is located on Calle Juarez 598, in the historic center of Puerto Vallarta, in a building loaned to the organization by the Barlow family. It has a space of 110 square meters of gallery, the Martha and David Haynes Educational Garden, the OPC Workshop, two apartments that house the OPC ofce and the Pulpo Rojo production workshop. EXHIBITIONS 2014-2018 Since 2014, OPC has organized 16 exhibitions with a list of internationally renowned cultural leaders, including curators Henry Eric Hernandez, Carlos Ashida, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Rubén Méndez, and Mariana Botey; and exhibited individual and group exhibitions of artists such as Francisco Toledo, Los Carpinteros, Carlos Garaicoa, Gil Garea, Fallen Fruit, John Baldessari, Jorge Prado, Ivan Puig, Andrea Zittel, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Dr. Lakra, Laureana Toledo, Pae White , Fernando Palomar, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Sylvia Gruner, Miguel Calderón, Jorge Méndez Blake, José Dávila, Gonzalo Lebrija, among others. OPC also collaborates with museums and institutions to develop traveling exhibitions. These exhibitions have been requested by other cultural institutions and have traveled to spaces such as the Ex-Convento del Carmen and the Museum of Arts (MUSA) of the University of Guadalajara; the San Luis Potosí Arts Center; Galería Jesús Gallardo at the Cultural Institute of León; and at the General Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles during Pacifc Standard Time: LA / LA. OPC recently had the honor of being included in the book Contemporary Art in Mexico: A Guide to Galleries, Museums and Alternative Spaces, published by Editorial Travesías. You are here: Cartographies of a Destination Usted Está Aquí: Cartografías de un destino Curator: Oscar Morán The series You Are Here has explored the contradictions and Artists: dichotomies derived from urban planning and the exercise of Alfonso Baños, Davis Birks, Arturo making a city focused on a discourse of “tourist destination”. Dávila, Fallen Fruit, César Girón, Kaz This third and fnal exhibition in the series, seeks to weave a narrative Kipp, Tania Mancha, Natasha Molina, that addresses the current urban aspect of Puerto Vallarta through Arturo Montero, Jorge Morales, a multi-dimensional lens, across geographical, historical, social, Gerardo Morán, Oscar Morán, Jimena and symbolic cartography. The exhibition highlights the infuence Odetti, Roberto Ornelas, Jorge of the notion of destino (destiny/destination) understood as a Ramírez, Alberto Reyes, Andrés tourist destination; but also of destino as a notion of destiny, the Reyes. materialization of the future based on plans and neglects that have shaped city growth under certain parameters that privilege tourism and speculative real estate development over any other need. May 26 to August 27, 2018. The End of the Great Tale El Fin del Gran Relato Curator: Henry Eric Hernández The End of the Great Tale investigates how Cuba is defned in Artists: 2018 from within and outside the country. Is there a new opening Ángel Delgado, Carlos Garaicoa, or real change, or is it really much more difcult? Much has been Celia-Yunior, Ezequiel Suárez, Henry said, inside and outside Cuba, of “openness” and “change”. This Eric Hernández, Isabel Cristina y Laura has delineated an imaginary in which, without having defned the Pérez Insua, Jorge Luis Marrero, José Cuban system as totalitarian, it is committed to the continuity Ángel Toirac, Los Carpinteros, Manuel of its authoritarianism propped up this time by the free market Alcayde Majendié, Reynier Leyva economy. OPC worked with curator Henry Eric Hernández and Novo, and Yornel Martínez Elías. Galería Taller Gorría to produce this exhibition that invites refection with 12 established and emerging artists from Cuba. The project also includes a documentary by Mary Koruga and Arturo Montero who conducted interviews in Cuba with all the participating artists. January 27 to May 5, 2018. DeLIMITations: Mapping the Border of 1821 between Mexico and the United States. DeLIMITations: Mapeo de la frontera de 1821 entre México y EE.UU. DeLIMITations is a 3800 kilometer installation, invoking exploration Artists: and conquest expeditions from the 19th century, the two artists Marcos Ramírez ERRE and David set out to draw the border between Mexico and the United States Taylor as it existed in 1821. This border was never examined and the registration of its brief history of twenty-seven years only exists in the form of treaty documents and old maps. The objective of the project was to mark periodically the historical limit with a series of monuments that imitate the markers installed along the contemporary border between Mexico and the United States. This exhibition travelled to be exhibited at the Museum of Arts of the University of Guadalajara (MUSA) and at the Secretariat of Culture of Colima. October 7, 2017 to January 13, You are Here: Dichotomies of Landscape Usted Está Aquí: Dicotomías del paisaje Curator: Oscar Morán The curatorship series You Are Here by Oscar Morán Guillén Artists: continues the refection of the urban space initiated with last year’s Álvaro Argüelles, Alfonso Baños, exhibition, You Are Here: Urban Approximations. This edition Sinclair Castro, Arturo Dávila, seeks to highlight the vulnerability of the natural landscape, the Luis Echeverría, Fallen Fruit, Luis tension between nature and city, as well as the need for a critical Galeano, Cecilia Hurtado, Franca discourse on planning and non-urban territorial management. The Mata, Arturo Montero, Jorge Morales, exhibition aims to foster a dialogue on the concept of heritage Gerardo Moran, Jimena Odetti, Fanny landscaping, its relevance in the collective imaginary and in the Olivares, Javiera Pintocanales, Jorge sense of community belonging, as well as its impact on the quality Ramírez, Alberto Reyes, Juan Soler. of life. The 18 creators who participated in this multidisciplinary exhibition, produced specifc pieces for the shown as well as interventions in public spaces. May 27 to August 25, 2017 Fissures in the Tropics: Artistic Practices of the 90s in the West Fisuras en el trópico: Prácticas artísticas de los 90s en el occidente Curator: Rubén Méndez Fissures in the Tropics aims to show the production model that was Artists: Davis Birks, Eduardo Cervan- carried out by a group of artists in the 90s in the west of the country tes, Jose Dávila, , Mónica Escutia, Gil and the cultural initiatives that allowed its development. The exhibition Garea, Omar Guerra, Gonzalo Lebrija, aims to give an account of this production but also a map will be made Jorge Méndez Blake, Diego Medina, that will connect events, places and characters that were actors of Lourdes Méndez, Rubén Méndez, the frst order in the cultural development of that moment. Fissures Daniel Navarro, Paul Nevin, Fernando in the Tropics does not try to answer the question “How did we get Palomar, Alejandro Ramirez, Ernesto here?”. It is an exhibition that testifes to the environment that shaped Ramirez Ramirez, Claudia Rodríguez, the spirit of an era in a specifc area of the country through its artistic Guillermo Santamarina, Agustín So- results. The paradigm shift, the theoretical refection, the economic, lorzano, Luis Miguel Suro, Francisco social and political crisis, the change of millennium, were factors – Ugarte. among others – that combined so that the fssure deepened. February 4 to May 6, 2017 Del acstracto ranchero al naquismo mágico. Del acstracto ranchero al naquismo mágico. Curator: Carmen Villoro This exhibition includes installation, painting, and graphic work by Artists: artist Gil Garea. His work covers a wide variety of
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