Zona Maco is back at Centro Citibanamex from February 6th through the 10th. This year, the 16th edition of ZM’s Contemporary Art and the 9th of ZM’s Design will take place.
Latin America’s most important art fair welcomes 22 countries from America, Europe, and Asia, offering over 180 galleries and exhibitors. A lecture program is added to the exhibition, also an area for specialized publications and publishing houses will be available, other activities will take place in the city’s galleries and museums and in Zona Maco’s book section.
More than 60,000 attendees are expected for this edition, which will be divided into the following sections:
General section
The largest in the fair, galleries will boast paintings, sculptures, graphics, installations, photographs, videos, and new media; some of them are:
- Luis Adelantado (Mexico City)
- Curro (Guadalajara)
- Galería Freijo (Madrid)
- GINSBERG (Lima)
- The Hole (New York)
Zona Maco Design
As it does every year, it includes collection pieces and limited editions of furniture and decoration accessories, which were made from 1960 to this day.
- ESRAWE (Mexico City)
- CASA GUTIÉRREZ NÁJERA (Querétaro)
- Venini (Venice)
- Galería Talavera de la Reyna (Puebla)
- merkki (Guadalajara)
New Ideas
Instead of focusing on what’s “new”, this area features artists who aim at different life forms and imaginative ways of thinking.
- ATM (Asturias)
- Nora Fish (Buenos Aires)
- LUCE GALLERY (Turin)
- Machete Galería (Mexico CIty)
- YAM GALLERY (San Miguel de Allende)
Zona Maco South
Continuing with last year’s topic, “The logic of materials”, the bet for this edition is stated as a new way of taking the art world’s temperature focusing on the idea of what’s performative, but as an indicator of the increasingly growing interest shown by young artists that add performance to their work.
- Patricia Conde Galería (Mexico City)
- Maëlle (Paris)
- NM Contemporáneo (Cuernavaca)
- Eduardo Secci (Florence)
- RoFa projects (Maryland)
Modern Art
Genres and emblematic works of art made mainly during the 20th century.
- Galería La Cometa (Bogotá)
- Galería RGR+ART (Mexico City)
- Mario Uvence (San Cristóbal de las Casas)
- Art of the World Gallery (Houston)
- Galerías Cristóbal (Mexico City)