Hector Zamora
Muegano
Biography:
Hector Zamora, Mexico/Brazil
Hector Zamora is a Mexican artist based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Working extensively in public space over the past decade, the artist creates major works that often rearticulate the physical characteristics of a specific urban or architectural environment. Creating structures that enhance or highlight particular characteristics or patterns of social use of that space and environment, the artist often utilises materials that also carry a particular resonance within that location. Zamora often draws the local community into the process of not only experiencing the work of art, but also as a part of the creation. The artist reimagines these public spaces through the implementation of sculptural additions made from materials with a specific significance within each site to interact with the community consciousness.
Zamora received a bachelor degree in Graphic Design from UAM – X, Mexico City in 1998. Zamora’s solo exhibitions include De Belg wordt geboren met een baksteen in de maag, FLACC, Genk, Belgium, 2008; Spectacular Reflections, Cerca Series, MCASD, San Diego, USA, 2007; Líneas de suspensión, ensayo sobre geometría funicular. Enrique Guerrero gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, 2005. Unidad habitacional. La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, 2005. Paracaidista, Av. Revolución 1608 bis. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico, 2004; PNEU, Garash Gallery, México City, Mexico, 2004; a=360º r/R, Arte in Situ “La Torre de los Vientos”, Mexico City, Mexico, 2000. Group exhibitions include Making Worlds, 53a Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2009; Encuentro Internacional Medellín 2007 (MDE07), Medellin, Colombia, 2007; Busan Biennale 2006; Busan, South Korea, 2006; 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, 2006; and Eco: arte contemporáneo mexicano, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2005. In addition to his participation in SCAPE 2011, Zamora 's recent exhibitons include: Margens, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil, 2010; Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, Japan, 2010; and Touched, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, 2010.
For the 6th SCAPE Héctor Zamora’s temporary outdoor public sculpture envisioned many readily available, pre-fabricated glass house frames atop the banks of the Avon River in Victoria Square., Christchurch.
This large-scale installation, Muegano, was intended to generate reflections about the implications of the traditional house structure in Western culture and, as a comment on inner-city living and urban density, the artist saw this project as a way to examine urban Christchurch.
Muegano will be relocated to the Auckland Waterfront, as a re-articulation of the architectural environment in which the work was first inspired.
Date and Location - Negotiations and fundraising continue to re-site Muegano at this location within the 2011 calendar year.
Further information - www.lsd.com.mx
Hector Zamora, artist’s visualization, 'Muegano', 2011. Location visual courtesy of Waterfront Auckland.
