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DIALOGO + DIALOGUE

February 12, 2020

In celebration of Frieze Week Los Angeles, Monica Calderon and David Cruz presented DIALOGO: at Blackman Cruz gallery—An exploration of the ongoing cultural and aesthetic connection between California and Mexico’s design communities. The show presented a special curation of furniture, ceramics, and decorative objects highlighting a century of the California-Mexico design dialogue.

Mexican craft heritage and artisan culture has influenced generations of California designers, from Mayan Revival to Modernism.
In turn, Hollywood as a masterful exporter of taste and culture has impacted Mexico’s built environment, most notably with ‘Colonial Californiano’, a 20th century Mexican architecture movement based on Hollywood's depiction of Spanish Colonial Revival style—essentially, an interpretation of an interpretation.

DIALOGO: featured David Cruz’s collection of influential Mexican works of the 20th century, such as Arturo Pani, Los Castillo, alongside Clasicos Mexicanos iconic reissues from architects such as Ricardo Legorreta and Amando Franco, as well as CALA editions curated by Calderon WHICH featured contemporary, Mexican made works from Jorge Pardo, David Weisman, and Ezequiel Farca of Ezequiel Farca+Cristina Grappin, whose architecture and design studios in Mexico City and L.A. make his work emblematic of the connectivity of point of views that continues to thrive today.

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CALA Labor Gallery MX

October 5, 2018

CALA presented the exhibition MATERIA inMexico City, launching its first edition, with the collaborations of world renown artist and architects Jorge Pardo, Mauricio Rocha, DavidWiseman, EzequielFarca + Cristina Grappin and Moises Hernandez. The name MATERIA refers the alchemy: the transformation of everyday raw materials into precious furniture and objects; the word transformation being key, since the exhibition focused on the creative processes of its makers and the workshop.The pieces that made up this first exhibition offered an alternative vision of the current consumer society and the role that design plays in it. These handmade and therefore unique products, are statements on material and function, opting for materials and traditional or preindustrial techniques and repurposing them with new possibilities. This exhibition was hosted by Labor Galleryas part of TERRITORIO URBANO(Design Week Mexico/World Capital Design)Parallel to MATERIA exhibit, CALA Gallery opened its doors in:CamposElíseos 158, Polanco,Mexico City

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