AO PREVIEW – ZONA MACO ART FAIR AND MEXICO CITY ART WEEK, FEBRUARY 9TH – 13TH, 2022
by D.Creahan
Art Observed
February 08, 2022
Zona Maco enters its 18th year this year, and will celebrate at its usual home, the Centro Citibanamex, where more than 200 galleries from more than 25 countries around the world will converge for a range of programs and projects. The largest art fair platform in Latin America,founded in 2002 by Zelika Garcia, the event has always served as one of the opening notes of the year’s art calendar, and this year is no different. One can expect a broad range of works and installations both in the exhibition space and throughout the city. Monterrey-based Colector Gallery presents a curated booth with works by Zhivago Duncan, whose boldly-colored batik paintings blend organic shapes with machine-like imagery into monumental cosmic abstractions. Another Colector artist, Rachel Garrard, explores the reaches of human consciousness through paintings that combine geometric linearity with esoteric abstraction, using a color palette that she creates herself using pigments derived from ground stone and crystals.