See See by Ceci

An authority on Mexican Contemporary Art & Design, Ana Elena Mallet is one of the most knowledgeable and influential curators in Latin America. A meticulous researcher and culture decoder, Mallet has rightfully earned her title as Mexico’s Storyteller of objects and paintings for the purpose of unveiling her country’s identity. She is a superb guide in a journey through a country whose history is intrinsically linked to color and craftsmanship. In nation conceived out of surrealistic syncretism, of sun and beautiful landscapes, color is understood as precious heritage built on highly valued traditions. Profit from a brilliant interview with Ana Elena Mallet and learn about the origins and importance of color in Mexico’s identity story.

Magnum photographer Gregory Halpern provides us with incredible depth while inviting us to submerge in a dual world of brightness and darkness. Captured in an instant that prevails in form of strong yet somehow always beautiful images, Gregory’s photographs become a pathway of changing pallets where light is divine and color its most tangible form of expression. From Midwest America to sunny California, Gregory’s aesthetic and sensitive eye unveils human truths otherwise disguised by the American Culture.

Meet Mexican abstract painter Cecilia Rivera and plunge in her childhood stories on growing up in “paradise”. Let her inspiring evolution of expression and color awareness developed through her various stages of life, engage with you in an inner-soul encounter with the artist. Colorful traces left intentionally for the viewer to discover; her canvas is an explosion of color that conveys rhythms that further the spectator´s sight to dance with grace and passion.

Israeli figurative painter David Amnon Ar, guides us through a world of superb, depicted nudity and contemplative portraits including those of the self. In his attempt to imitate reality, Amnon uses the delicacy of light to caress youth, old years and even death through his own interpretation of claroscuros, in which the absence of black is to be expected. Join us on an insightful interview on life, art, and extensive knowledge in how color is, both, intuitively and consciously applied.

Throughout the history of human existence, it has been said, written and heard, that “in the beginning there was light”. In our minds and in our eyes, light is wonderous. And not less wonderous is its transformation into colors. Do we dream in colors? How do we express ourselves in colors? Can music be translated into colors? How can born blind people “see” color? and what do colors have to do with identity and the way we look at the world?