ZsONAMACO FOTO announces its 2016 edition, from September 21st to 25th in Centro Banamex Hall D, Mexico City.

ZsONAMACO FOTO is a key meeting point for the most important international galleries, curators and collectors of photography, following ZsONAMACO México Arte Contemporáneo’s format, in an unprecedented way in Latin America.

Established in 2015, the first edition of ZsONAMACO FOTO featured 26 galleries simultaneously with ZsONAMACO SALÓN DEL ANTICUARIO (Antiques Fair).

The second edition of ZsONAMACO FOTO will feature vintage, modern and contemporary photography, with the aim of promoting, disseminating and bringing closer to the general public this discipline, as well as encouraging specialization in this kind of collecting.

A series of parallel activities and an exhibition program, including special events and relevant exhibitions such as World Press Photo 2016 at the Franz Mayer Museum and Cali Clair-Obscur from Colombian photographer Fernell Franco - an exhibition organized by the Cartier Foundation in Paris and curated by Alexi Fabri for Centro de la Imagen - will also take place during this special week.

The selection committee for ZsONAMACO FOTO is composed by Patricia Conde (Director of Patricia Conde, Galería, Mexico City), Ana Elena Mallet (independent curator, Mexico City) and Mauricio Maillé (Director of Visual Arts at Fundación Televisa, Mexico City).

ZsONAMACO FOTO - Exhibitor List (in alphabetical order)

- Almanaque, Mexico City
- Artspace, Mexico City
- Jimena Carranza, Mexico City
- CEDE Galería, Lima
- Celaya Brothers, Mexico City
- Patricia Conde, Mexico City
- Ethra, Mexico City
- Galería Freijo, Madrid
- GE, Monterrey
- Gráfika La Estampa / Jean Mateau Martini, Mexico City
- Hispánica, Mexico City / Madrid
- Art Lexing, Miami
- Local, Mexico City
- LTB Art, Mexico City
- MAMA, Los Angeles
- MYL, Mexico City
- Aina Nowak, Madrid
- OMR, Mexico City
- Raffaella de Chirico, Torino
- RGR+Art, Caracas
- Ricardo Reyes, Mexico City
- Salmantina, Nueva York
- Samsøn Projects, Boston
- Terreno Baldío, Mexico City
- Galería Tiro al Blanco, Guadalajara

ZsONAMACO FOTO - Conference program Thursday, September 22, 2016

4 pm | Michael Slenske in conversation with Gloria Cortina and Iñaki Bonillas
Spanning the fields of antiques and photography, Michael Slenske will talk with Mexican interior designer Gloria Cortina and Mexican artist Iñaki Bonillas to discuss the role that antiques and photography play, respectively, in their projects.

5 pm | Iván Ruíz: New documentary photography in Mexico
Iván Ruíz will talk about various documentary projects that integrate photojournalism, essays, fiction and built-photo in order to tell unconventional-stories from different perspectives. Facing a depleted speech in the first person, dispersed but present in the current photographic production (the "confessional-photo"), series like "La ley del monte" by Mauricio Palos, "The Northern Pass" by Dominic Bracco II, "Observations on the human resistance" by Jos" Luis Cuevas or "Paraalegorías" by Adela Goldbard constitute an irrefutable proof of the vitality of the photographic media in its tense and complex relationship with reality

Friday, September 23, 2016

4 pm | Iván Cordero
Ivan Cordero is a Mexican architect. His projects include urban interventions that reconsider buildings of historical significance. In this presentation Cordero will discuss his projects related to interior design in which he employs an innovative and original juxtaposition of antiques, art and design.

5 pm | Juan Mulder
Mulder is the founder of Centro de la Imagen, the Centro Cultural Ojo and the Asociación Foto e Imagen in Lima, Peru. With an extensive and distinguished career in collecting and dissemination of photography, John Mulder will converse on various projects he has created and developed.

Saturday, September 24, 2016

1 pm | Megan Steinman
Megan Steinman is curator and Director of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles California. In this conversation Steinman will talk about some of the projects involving photography, image and new media art that she has organized at institutions around the world, such as Museo Pecci Milano, Sonos Studio Los Angeles, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, District Berlin, ICA Boston, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

4 pm | Farzaneh Pirouz
Farzaneh Pirouz is a curator and researcher with a doctorate degree in Art History at Oxford University in the UK. Pirouz curated the exhibition "Talavera poblana. Pasado y presente" (Talavera poblana. Past and present) featured at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City and currently exhibited at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas. Her presentation will address this international exhibition project which will be subsequently presented at the International Museum of the Baroque in Puebla.

5 pm | Kevin Linde and Gerardo Montiel Klimt
Mexican photographer Gerardo Montiel Klimt and Kevin Linde, from the Visual Education Department at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) (San Diego, California) will discuss the exhibition of Mexican contemporary photography that the MOPA is organizing for 2017 within the initiative “Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles / Latin America” supported by the Getty Institute.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

12 pm | Mariela Sancari
Mariela Sancari was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work revolves around identity and memory and the way both are mingled and affected by each other. In this talk, Sancari will discuss her photobook "Moisés" (Moses), published by La Fábrica in 2015, which has received several international awards, and was sold out in less than a year after being published.

1 pm | Itala Schmeltz
Itala Schmeltz is Director of Centro de la Imagen, starting October 2013, and was selected as curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Schmeltz will discuss the research and curatorial programme carried out in Centro de la Imagen during the last period, in order to show a broad overview of the current exhibitions: "Cali Clair-obscur" by Fernell Franco; "Archivos de un cinefotógrafo" (A cinematographer’s files) by Antonio Reynoso; and "Moléculas del mundo" (Molecules of the world) by Carlos Jurado.

4 pm | Alejandro Cartagena
Alejandro Cartagena will discuss the production of his photobooks, which employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. His work part of the collections of several museums, including the SFMOMA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Portland Museum of Art, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Rio, Brazil, the Fototeca de Nuevo Leén, Mexico and the Fototeca Nacional in Pachuca, Mexico.

ZsONAMACO is an exclusive opportunity to exhibit and acquire photography within a leading event in Mexico.

ZsONAMACO FOTO
September 21st - 25th, 2016
Centro Banamex, Hall D
Av. Conscripto 311
Col. Lomas de Sotelo,
México. C.P. 11200

OPENING HOURS Wednesday 21: 12 - 9 pm (Opening)
Thursday 22, Friday 23, Saturday 24: 12 - 9 pm
Sunday 25: 10 - 6 pm

General public $200 MXN
Students and senior citizens $100 MXN
Admission is free for children 12 and under
Buy tickets online or at the entrance of the fair.

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ABOUT ZsONAMACO

Established in 2003 by Zélika García, ZsONAMACO is currently one of the leading art fairs in the world, taking place every year during the month of February at Banamex Centre in Mexico City.

Additionally to the contemporary art fair, Zélika García established ZsONAMACO SALÓN DEL ANTICUARIO in 2014 and ZsONAMACO FOTO, with the goal of covering and strengthening the antique and photography sectors in Mexico.