How did Proyecto H come about?
Proyecto H is an international contemporary art gallery with locations in Mexico City (since 2013) and Madrid (since 2016), founded as a curatorial initiative by Galería Hispánica. The gallery aims to spread, exhibit, and internationalize emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists, building a bridge between the two regions. Each year the gallery programs at least eight exhibitions split between both venues, in collaboration with independent curators.
How would you define what makes Proyecto H different?
It came from the need for an intermediate space between Proyecto H's gallery for established artists and the art schools — a space where younger artists and more established ones can meet.
As a gallery, our goal is to participate in international contemporary art fairs to build relationships between artists, museums, institutions, and collectors. It's also a commitment for Proyecto H to encourage and spread the work of Spanish artists in the Americas, and of American artists — primarily Mexican — abroad, through our two venues in Madrid and Mexico City and through contemporary art fairs.
How did you come to art?
From practical knowledge: I studied Arts and Crafts and graduated in Art History. I see artistic production as just as important as its institutional and commercial development. I like being an intermediate agent, which is why I'm now starting out as an independent art advisor after directing the gallery for the past 6 years.
How can art and architecture improve people's lives?
Both are essential — they're our means of growth. Artists like Juan Garaizabal manage to establish a perfect dialogue between the two. In Urban Memories, for instance, he recovers significant elements of cities, filling voids of extraordinary memories and sparking debate around urban planning, history, and the role of contemporary art.
His work stands out not only for its personal narrative but for techniques he has developed himself in his workshops in Madrid, Berlin, and Miami: working iron, woodworking, electricity, plasticity, and masonry. He combines wood, concrete, glass, brick, motors, LED lights, and more, to create the most interactive contrast possible between time, the avant-garde, and history. His role as an artist doesn't end with the sculpture — that's where his real role begins, sparking debate in society.
How do you see the future of Proyecto H?
These have been years of growth, and now, with Luciana Sánchez taking over the direction, the moment has come to consolidate all of this work.
Visit Proyecto H at Guadalajara 88, Colonia Roma, CDMX.
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