This collaborative exhibition, co-curated by the Tamayo Museum and the British Council, presents the work of 12 artists in Mexico City’s foremost contemporary art museum, with a subsequent tour to MARCO in Monterrey. The exhibition takes at its theme the visual texture that constitutes urban space. The diverse approaches represented can be seen to contribute to a shared dialogue concerning the nature of the contemporary city, as the artists in the exhibition have backgrounds in London, Glasgow, New York and Mexico City. Works plunder and echo the cacophony of colour, graphics, materials and sounds that give the metropolis its resonance, and make varied reference to the Modernist assumptions that continue to influence discussion of urban contexts.

The artists included in the exhibition represent neither a single generation nor location, but there are affinities and links between their chosen methodologies, which range across media to include sculpture, installation, painting, drawing and video.

The artists in the exhibition are:

David Batchelor – born in Dundee in 1955. Lives and works in London.

Kathrin Böhm – born in Bamburg, Germany in 1971. Lives and works in London.

Martin Boyce – born in Glasgow in 1967. Lives and works in Glasgow.

Nigel Cooke – born in Manchester in 1973. Lives and works in London.

Jim Lambie – born in Glasgow in 1964. Lives and works in Glasgow.

Paul Noble – born in Northumberland in 1963. Lives and works in London.

Rosalind Nashashibi – born in Croydon in 1973. Lives and works in Glasgow.

Oliver Payne and Nick Relph – Payne born in London in 1977, Relph born in London in 1979. Live and work in London and New York.

Melanie Smith – born in Great Britain in 1965. Lives and works in Mexico City and Tepozlan, Mexico.

Mark Titchner – born in Luton in 1973. Lives and works in London.

Richard Wright – born in London in 1960. Lives and works in Glasgow.

Site specific works will be installed by a number of artists and off-site works will be shown on billboards across the cities. During the course of the exhibition artists will give public lectures about their work.  A full colour catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition, featuring installation photographs, and including texts by curators Tobias Ostrander of the Tamayo and Ann Gallagher of the British Council, as well as a contribution from architectural theoretician Neil Leach.  

Venues:
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City 15 July – 10 October 2004

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey 5 November 2004 – 6 February 2005

For more information, please contact Katie Boot