An artist's presentation by Roberto de la Torre followed by a discussion with Julia Villasenor Bell at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-42, Defence Colony > 6pm on 14th December 2013

Time : 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Vadehra Art Gallery, D-42, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
Venue Info : www.vadehraart.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lajpat Nagar(Violet Line)'

Event Description :  Vadehra Art Gallery invites you to an artist's presentation by Roberto de la Torre followed by a discussion with Julia Villasenor Bell.

Roberto de la Torre has also been exploring ideas around public performance since his arrival in New Delhi last week, and has developed a performance-based work set at various locations in the city. At this presentation the artist will discuss his past works and share thoughts on this ongoing performance which is part of the show "An Antipode So Close" an exhibition featuring the works of eleven contemporary Mexican artists at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony > 12th December 2013 to 11th January 2014
Following this, De la Torre will participate in a discussion with the curator of the show, Julia Villasenor Bell.

Roberto de la Torre’s proposals are usually generated in the public domain, defined by temporary and contingent elements. His objects are not chosen only for their visual characteristics, but for their affective and relative meanings. His ideas concretize either as ephemeral actions or sculptural/architectural/sensorial installations through the use of different media for determined spaces, always in collaboration with a large number of participants, and in different environments. His work generally documents that which is transitory. His work engages with social questions that emerge from local contexts, but are significant when applied to a global context as well. De la Torre’s practice reveals his deep understanding of formal and spatial conditions, wherever the site may be, and acute awareness about what his own interventions in these spaces means. The tension between the physical and the intellectual saturates his work, and it is from this energy the author has developed the notion of “social sculpture”. His works are full of complex social negotiations, dealing with issues of permissions and participation.

Working between Paris, Delhi and Mexico City, Julia Villaseñor Bell is now established in India, working as curator for the Vadehra Art Gallery. She completed her MA in Curating from the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Univery in 2010 after a BA in Art History in Paris 10 Nanterre. She lived 10 years in Paris where she started a not-for-profit association aiming to activate better contemporary cultural exchange between Mexico and France. Her focus on bringing together distant cultures has been the core of her professional career, she has also started exchanges between artists in Mexico and India during the last year. For the ambitious An Antipode So Close… project, she will reunite a selection of promising and interesting artists from Mexico in order to contrast sensibilities and find common threads of aesthetic and conceptual preoccupations between the Mexican and the Indian art scenes. Her idea of a collaborative space created by live-in residencies in the gallery space will allow the Indian public to better understand the tissue of contemporary art in Mexico through this exhibition.

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