A book is back. ..! The Arte Abierto publishing fair. This fourth edition will be a meeting point to talk, celebrate and spread the taste for books and printed formats.
This publishing fair happens every year in the south of the CDMX and this 2024 will take place in the garden of Arte Abierto, located on the second floor of the Artz Pedregal shopping center.
📍Periférico Sur 3720, 01900 Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.
Here you can enjoy a cozy and friendly atmosphere, where visitors can discover new publishing proposals, participate in activities and immerse themselves in the world of publishing art.
It is very important for you to know that the Arte Abierto publishing fair is free admission and you can visit it on Saturday, December 7 from 13:00 to 19:30 hours.
What projects will you find at the Arte Abierto publishing fair?
- MUAC Brillantinas
A collective space for digital, pedagogical and management experimentation with a gender perspective. This multidisciplinary program has explored diverse methods through social networks to strengthen the museum with a young and not so young audience, generating a sense of belonging by building bridges with digital, ecological, esoteric, kawaii, queer, non-binary and anti-patriarchal practices.
- Cafeteria
Cafetería is a cultural center, bookstore and coffee shop in the Municipality of Coyoacán, dedicated to the sale, dissemination and activation of books, printed materials and unique, original and different publishing projects from the big bookstores.
- Nomad Studio
Estudio Nómade is a project of Elvia González and Carlos Villajuárez who combine their multiple disciplines to generate a space for creation, play, imagination, exchange of ideas, art and speculation.
Within the studio they put into practice exercises that combine different disciplines such as: visual arts, film, theater, literature, illustration and editorial design; in order to achieve a novel and playful space, where participants can discover other ways to create and put it into practice on a daily basis.
- Fulgencio Pimentel
An independent publishing house, originally from Spain and focused on high quality publishing of fiction, graphic novels, poetry, art books and illustrated books for all ages. Its policy is to be faithful to artistic principles.
- GLACIAR. Frozen Books
This is a bookstore/ice cream shop located in the San Rafael neighborhood. Its editorial selection focuses on independent publications and includes art, narrative, essay, poetry, illustration and other books that break with genres.
- Carrillo Gil Art Museum
At MACG Ediciones, publications are understood as a powerful tool to broaden the scope and deepen reflection on artistic discourses. Its collection is nourished by the exhibition and educational programming of the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. MACG Infantil is an editorial series that invites writers, artists and illustrators to create narratives inspired by the works in the museum’s foundational collection. Together, they seek to encourage reading, imagination and an approach to art from childhood.
- Piedra Ediciones
A series of artistic projects that use printed publications as a means of circulation, turning each copy into a multiple and simultaneous piece. Each title is the result of collaboration and curatorial/editorial support, thus generating a collection of book-works that can be read, circulated and distributed in environments accessible to a wide public and not only as unique objects.
piedra ediciones is a project of Alfonso Santiago.
- Thirteen Eyes
Editorial production and risographic printing studio, located in Mexico City. Since its founding in 2020 and with an emphasis on personal narratives and those of the LGBTTI+ community, this project seeks to materialize stories and accompany the processes and concerns of its collaborators.
- Young collectors
A platform dedicated to the dissemination of visual creators. It seeks to generate new collectors and give space to young artists in Mexico through exhibitions, collaborations, PopUp Shows and consultancies. They like to rethink and produce the spaces and typologies in which creatives meet, dialogue, build or imagine together.
- Open Art
Fundación Arte Abierto is an imprint and editorial line that seeks to reflect on contemporary artistic practices through publications that arise from its own exhibition projects. Through editorial exercises that seek to expand art writing and put it in dialogue with other disciplines, as well as to think of the book as a space for creation and knowledge, its books delve into the artistic and conceptual proposals of the curated exhibitions and are presented specifically for the Arte Abierto space.