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Despite a tornado in Brooklyn and rain in Manhattan the September 16th opening reception for the Paul Strand in Mexico Exhibition as well as the En Foco curated Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices and Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection at the Aperture Gallery and Bookstore was a terrific success. Guests were served margaritas and cold Dos Equis, provided by the Mexican Cultural Institute and there was a great turn out of photographers, friends, family and enthusiasts. In addition to the exhibitions on view at Aperture a satellite exhibition Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio featuring twenty gravure plates by Strand is on view at the Bronx Museum. To celebrate, this weekend the Bronx Museum of the Arts is hosting Family Affair: Viva La Vida with family-friendly music, food, and more to help kids learn about this historical happening. Activities and exhibition tours are also to take place.

For more pictures from the event check out Aperture’s facebook album.

Paul Strand in Mexico
On View at Aperture Gallery September 9th – November 13th, 2010

Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices and Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection
Exhibition on view: September 16-October 21 2010

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th St, 4th floor
New York, New York

Also on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, presented by Aperture
Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
September 9th, 2010 – January 2nd, 2011

Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York

A Paul Strand in Mexico symposium will take place on October 15–16, 2010. There, James Krippner, author and co-curator of Paul Strand in Mexico, will bring together a distinguished group of international scholars and practitioners from Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to discuss Strand’s output during his sojourn in Mexico in the context of Latin-American modernism, revolutionary politics and film of the 1930s, Mexican-American identity, and other topics. Screenings of the newly restored versions of the classic Strand films Redes and Manhatta (1921), and a viewing of the José Clemente Orozco murals at the New School—the only public commission by a Mexican muralist remaining in New York City—will take place as part of the symposium events.

Photo by Paul Strand

Tonight September 16, 2010,  Aperture joins in celebrations to commemorate the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence with opening receptions for both Paul Stand in Mexico and in collaboration with En Foco, Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices.

Aperture is proud to present Paul Strand in Mexico the exhibition, taking place in two parts, at the Aperture Gallery and at the Bronx Museum, and the accompanying publication, bringing together exquisitely printed infamous and unpublished images, documents, personal notes and film from this poignant period in the famed photographer’s life.

Paul Strand first visited Mexico in 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. Strand’s sojourn in Mexico, was a time of great creative renewal for the artist-one of intense productivity, and the development of a method of working that would become the foundation of his subsequent endeavors: collective portraits of other lands.

Click here to be notified when the publication becomes available!

Paul Strand in Mexico
On View at Aperture Gallery September 9th – November 13th, 2010
Opening Reception Thursday, September 16th, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Also opening this evening is  En Foco: Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices which explores—via the work of photogrpahers Chuy Benitez, Dulce Pinzon, and Monica Ruzansky—how life and culture are enmeshed. Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection will also be on view encompassing work from the past four decades from Chicano, Mexican-American, and Mexican artists.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th St, 4th floor
New York, New York

Also on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, presented by Aperture
Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
September 9th, 2010 – January 2nd, 2011

Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York

A Paul Strand in Mexico symposium will take place on October 15–16, 2010. There, James Krippner, author and co-curator of Paul Strand in Mexico, will bring together a distinguished group of international scholars and practitioners from Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to discuss Strand’s output during his sojourn in Mexico in the context of Latin-American modernism, revolutionary politics and film of the 1930s, Mexican-American identity, and other topics. Screenings of the newly restored versions of the classic Strand films Redes and Manhatta (1921), and a viewing of the José Clemente Orozco murals at the New School—the only public commission by a Mexican muralist remaining in New York City—will take place as part of the symposium events.

Paul Strand in Mexico is coproduced by Aperture Foundation and Televisa Foundation. Paul Strand in Mexico is made possible by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico; National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius; Tinker Foundation; Mexican Cultural Institute of New York; and The John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center at Haverford College.

Wild Hearts by Monica Ruzansky

On view at Aperture’s Gallery and Bookstore coinciding with the season premiere exhibition Paul Strand in Mexico is Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices and Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection, a collaboration with En Foco, curated by Executive Director Miriam Romais. En Foco a non-profit organization that supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers of diverse cultures—primarily U.S. residents of Latino, African, and Asian heritage, as well as Native peoples of the Americas and Pacific.

Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices explores—via the work of photographers  Chuy Benitez, Dulce Pinzón, and Monica Ruzansky how life and culture are enmeshed.  Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection can be found in the adjacent room and includes works by Graciela Iturbide, Mariana Yampolsky, Pedro Meyer, Don Gregorio Antón, Delilah Montoya, Rojelio Reyes Rodriguez, Lisdebertus aka Luis Delgado-Qualtrough, and Dean Dempsey. This selection encompasses the past four decades of work created by Chicano, Mexican-American, and Mexican artists. Inspired by a larger, forthcoming traveling exhibition of the En Foco Permanent Collection, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, this work highlights a complex photographic history that is largely absent from surveys of the field.

This September 25th, En Foco’s will host their annual Portfolio Review. The event’s reviewers include a diverse range of leading arts professionals including Aperture Book’s editor Lesley A. Martin! Click here for pre-registration information and a full list of reviewers.

Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices
in conjunction with Paul Strand in Mexico
Opening reception: Thursday, September 16, 6:00-8:00 pm
Exhibition on view: September 16-October 21 2010

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York

Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices

Click here for more information about the upcoming Paul Strand in Mexico exhibition

Click here for more information about En Foco’s Programming