11/09/2012
VIERNES SEPT 14 a partir de las 9:00 pm
4 eventos imultáneos en celeste:
1) "La noche anterior a la mañana después" de Mario García Torres, presentada en Documenta 13, Kassel, Alemania.
Celeste Bar : PISO 2 / CELESTE
Alcohol (as well as drugs) consumption has been historically, and most probable mistakenly, connected to a creative act. Yet there has been a number of visual artists that have resort the old idea of drinking and getting drunk to create their work, both as a medium and as its “content” as the English duo Gilbert & George argued with their Drinking Sculptures series where they took pictures of themselves in that very same act. In one of their most iconic works, besides the one which this menu take its title from, is Gordon’s Gin Makes Us Drunk (1972), the couple is seen on a video piece indulging in the mentioned spirit. Similarly, the entire Andy Warhol film Drink (1965) is a long take of the filmmaker Emile de Antonio downing a bottle of whiskey. The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends -I wouldn’t limit it as only such beverage- is the Highest Form of Art (1970), declared Tom Morioni as he inaugurated what now is called a social situation type of artwork.
By chance, and several years before this, the experience of art through a cocktail was extended after the fact, some would say into the morning after. Those who attended the opening of the French artist Yves Klein at the Galerie Iris Clert in Paris on April 29, 1959 could acknowledge it. For this exhibition the space had been painted with white enamel and stripped of all objects and furniture except for a white, empty cabinet. The almost bare gallery could not be seen from outside as the windows had been painted blue and the door was covered with a heavy curtain of the same color, and two Republican Gards kept watch over it. Nevertheless the artist had arranged for a specific cocktail made with Gin, Cointreau and Curacao to be served. To the French artist’s delight -who had been painting deep blue monochrome paintings made out of a self invented recipe for such pigment- all who enjoyed the drink eventually found their p*e stained blue.
Thinking about this and proposing, again, to use the idea of the cocktail as a medium, or more so to use the mixology that such a drink requires to provoke a specific aesthetic experience, or… maybe just as a decoy to have a good conversation, I have invited a number of artists friends to present their own cocktail, either one that they like, have customized or that have put together themselves. Each month a new cocktails by artists will be presented until a full bar menu is completed. As an honorary place, the menu will open with the historic blue cocktail.
The Evening Before the Morning After, an event organized by periodically by Mario Garcia Torres at Celeste Champagne Bar in Mexico City. It was presented in Documenta 13 in Kassel, 2012.
2) “La oscuridad se mueve” de José León Cerrillo curada por Natalia Valencia
Black Cubicle Toilet Gallery: PISO 1 / CELESTE
PISO 2/ CELESTE BAR dj: Enrique Giner
¿Qué puede ocurrir en un cubículo negro? ¿Qué propiedades tiene un reflejo en la oscuridad? El título de esta intervención de José León Cerrillo en el Black Cubicle es tomado de una colección de escritos de Henri Michaux. En estos textos, el visionario artista y escritor belga utiliza el lenguaje como agente alquímico para habitar en los objetos.
Al encerrar una imagen en el espacio exacto de su propio reflejo, Cerrillo evoca las operaciones cuasi chamánicas de Michaux. Así, desarma las funciones de un baño en una especie de conjuro a lo invisible.
Inauguración de display en la tienda, nueva selección de moda curada por Sergio Tapia.
Celeste Concept Store: PB / CELESTE
AFTER PARTY de "La idea de una exposición no es una exposición" de Stefan Bruggemann, Aldo Chaparro y Mario Garcia Torres. (de 7:00 a 10:00 pm en Cozumel 81, Colonia Roma.
After en Celeste Bar : PISO 2 / CELESTE
