CONCRETE LIGHT
Nikolai Ishchuk and Fabiola Menchelli
June 5 – 21, 2020
Online Viewing Room

Originally conceived as a Summer exhibition in Los Angeles, CONCRETE LIGHT aims to relate the ways in which two artists develop a visual reference to, or extract influence from architecture in their photo-based work.

Nikolai Ishchuk (Russian, b.1982) and Fabiola Menchelli (Mexican, b. 1983) similarly explore post-minimalist and abstract approaches to architectonic landscapes using innovative photo-sensitive processes. Menchelli, through her multi-exposure echoes of Tadao Ando’s Oaxacan observatory, translates the curvature and contemplative experience of physical space into lunar impressions on paper — taking sculptural forms into the darkroom. Conversely, in his multi-panel compositions, Ishchuk distills the basic structures of spatial perception through cameraless and mixed-media techniques – letting sculptural and quasi architectural forms emerge from the darkroom.

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Note: There are several full-screen visuals as well as a background audio component. While you can view the show on your mobile device, the optimum experience is on a larger screen.

I hope their work and the presentation provide a few moments of meditative respite.

– Douglas Marshall

EXHIBITION TOUR $ ARTIST TALK

Approaching Architecture: Nikolai Ishchuk & Fabiola Menchelli
Saturday, June 13th
11:00 am PST on ZOOM

In this open group conversation, Fabiola, Nikolai, and I will explore the ways in which the artists develop a visual reference to, or extract influence from architecture in their photographic work, as well as their use of analog processes and art-historical influences.

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ARQUITECTURA DE LA LUZ
La fotógrafa mexicana, Fabiola Menchelli, manipula la luz para crear una obra refinada y atemporal.
POR SANTIAGO TOCA URIARTE
Architectural Digest Mexico
Febrero 2020

Me gusta la sensación de no saber que estoy viendo, y me gusta más cuando va acompañada de la belleza – tal como la describiera el crítico Dave Hickey – de “estar frente a algo que siempre quise ver pero que nunca se me había presentado”. Lo bello, dice Hickey, hace reaccionar a nuestro cuerpo de manera tal, que nuestro intelecto quiere saber que está pasando. Por eso la belleza rompe con el orden establecido, altera el statu quo y cambia los cánones de lo que deseamos. Eso es lo que sucede estando frente a la obra de Fabiola Menchelli.

Una primera mirada hace evidente que se trata de fotos, al menos por un momento. Su superficie plana refleja la luz y se mantiene sobre el papel con un brillo y un aplomo que solo se logra mediante la fotografía natural. Su cualidad es única. Pero apenas descubierto el medio, de inmediato se desencadenan una serie de preguntas – la mente se cuestiona qué está pasando –, si se trata de fotografías, ¿cómo las logra? ¿Qué hace para obtener esa paleta de color tan particular? ¿De dónde saca esas composiciones tan únicas? ¿Cómo mezcla o superpone los colores? Algo sucede con sus piezas que, en el mejor sentido, no permanecen estáticas ante el espectador, sino que invitan a regresar una y otra vez a mirar.

El proceso de Menchelli es laborioso y su metódica construcción corresponde al de una verdadera artesana de la luz, quien superpone procesos y exposiciones para llegar al resultado final.

A su corta edad, la obra de Fabiola Menchelli ya ha reci¬bido un sólido reconocimiento dentro y fuera de México. Este verano presentará su primera muestra individual en la galería ProxyCo, mientras que la fotógrafa mexicana pasará el verano en Casa Nano, una residencia para artistas en Tokio, Japón. Ese es, hasta ahora, el recorrido ascendente de la artista y su poderosa arquitectura de luz.

ZONA MACO
Booth D122
Galeria de Arte Mexicano
Centro Citi Banamex
Av. del Conscripto 311, Ciudad de México, CDMX
https://zsonamaco.com/

Diálogos en el Silencio

Carlos Arias · Tania Candiani · Virginia Colwell · Michael Conrads · Ignacio Gatica · Dalila Gonçalves · Carlos Iván Hernández · Reynier Leyva Novo · Daniela Libertad · Fabiola Menchelli Lucía Pizzani · Miguel Ángel Salazar

Curated by Sofía Mariscal
Feb 4 – Feb 22, 2020
Opens February 4th at 6:00 PM
Fundación MARSO
Berlín 37, Colonia Juárez

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UNTITLED, ART San Francisco,. Jan 17,18,19, 2020
UPFOR GALLERY
Fabiola Menchelli & Rodrigo Valenzuela

UNTITLED, ART is an international, curated art fair founded in 2012 that focuses on curatorial balance and integrity across all disciplines of contemporary art. UNTITLED, ART innovates the standard fair model by selecting a curatorial team to identify and curate a selection of galleries, artist-run exhibition spaces, and non-profit institutions and organizations, in dialogue with an architecturally designed venue. The next edition of UNTITLED, ART San Francisco will take place January 17 – 19, 2020 at Pier 35, 1454 The Embarcadero.

A collaborative exhibition by Daniela Libertad, Fabiola Menchelli, & Leslie Moody Castro.
Opening Saturday, November 16th, 2019, 12:00 – 15:00 h.

Fundación MARSO
Berlín 37, Colonia Juárez, Ciudad de México, CDMX

November 2019 – January 2020
Tue – Thu: 10:00 – 18:00 h.
Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 15:00 h.

MARSO presents A grain in the eye of the mountain, a collaborative exhibition by Daniela Libertad, Fabiola Menchelli, and Leslie Moody Castro. Comprised of completely new bodies of work based on a series of conversations between the three over the course of many months, the exhibition plays with medium, form, and space in a site-specific context.

Fabiola Menchelli
Curated by Paola Jasso

Fundación Casa Wabi
Dr Atl 62, Colonia Santa María la Ribera
Ciudad de México, México

September to January 2020
Monday to Fridays 10:00 to 17:00 hrs.
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00 to 15:00 hrs.

Fundación Casa Wabi is pleased to present the last exhibition of the 2019 exhibition cycle at Casa Santa Maríala Rivera. Fabiola Menchelli closes this season with an exhibition that talks about the cycles, the rotation of the stars, and the way we measure the passage of time, observing the light.

One of the most interesting approaches of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is that in the vicinity of a sufficiently massive astral body, the path of light can be bent by gravitational force. Apparent variations in the position of distant stars can be observed when they pass near a star or mass, effectively doubling the light. In La Curvatura de la Luz, Fabiola Menchelli’s work shapes form through multiple exposures, thus intervening space and reality.

Ramiro Chavez, Alejandra Venegas, Yeni Mao & Fabiola Menchelli

Galeria de Arte Mexicano Sala: GAM
Gobernador Rafael Rebollar #43, San Miguel Chapultepec, CDMX, México
September 2019 to January 2020
Monday to Thursday 10:30 to 18:00 hrs.
Fridays 10:30 to 15:00 hrs.

The exhibition Luego la Forma, this fall at Galería de Arte Mexicano, elucidates on a process native to the plastic arts, the conjuring of the empirical from the intangible. The show weaves together the practices of Ramiro Chaves, Yeni Mao, Fabiola Menchelli, and Alejandra Venegas. The practices tease out drawings, paintings, sculptures or photos from the gooey transitional space between source and realization.

This show is about process as expression, a physicality birthed from an impression, the form shaped from an ethereal whiff. The works decipher the way in which form is made. These practices are each an elucidation, a paraphrase, a decoding.

Blain Southern Gallery
London, UK
Curated by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa & Bosco Sodi
January 30 – March 23 2019

Exhibition

This Must Be The Place – Selected works from the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection from the 19th century to the present

November, 2018
Grand Palais at Paris Photo, Paris, FRA

Marking their eighth year as the official partner of Paris Photo, J.P. Morgan Private Bank is proud to return and exhibit significant works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. This Must Be The Place features iconic photographs, as well as recent acquisitions. Curated by Director and Chief Curator Dr. Charlotte Eyerman, the exhibition reflects the Collection’s diversity — from pioneering early photography to contemporary explorations of new media.

Working in a broad range of photographic techniques, styles and media across 150 years of international photographic history, featured artists include: Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Eugène Atget, Kwame Brathwaite, Peter Campus, Louis Cameron, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Louise Lawler, Vera Lutter, Lisette Model, Richard Prince and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

J.P. Morgan Official Partner

https://programme.parisphoto.com/en/detail,jp_morgan_chase_art_collection__this_must_be_the_place.htm