Artist Luciano Matus is staging an intervention in MARCO’s Sculpture Courtyard, where viewers can connect with the Monterrey landscape and architecture. Entitled Intervention. Luciano Matus, the artist’s new project is part of his study Re-conocimiento del espacio (Re-cognition of Space), in which he seeks to highlight the cultural and architectural values of emblematic buildings. Matus found a link between the museum’s Sculpture Courtyard designed by Ricardo Legorreta, the terrace of Casa Luis Barragán in Mexico City, and the El Eco Experimental Museum designed by Mathias Goeritz. Of these three examples of modern and contemporary architecture, the latter two have already been intervened by the artist.

In the case of MARCO, the architect will install nickel cables alongside the museum team, which will be suspended from the upper and interior corners of the Sculpture Courtyard toward the center of the space and at eye level for the public, where a chrome-plated steel sphere will be placed.

The cables are arranged in such a way that they follow a pattern of lines from Cerro de la Silla, framed by Legorreta through the architecture. For Matus, the intervention is like an “aerial drawing,” which also has a sonic quality when the air moves the nickel cables.

The aim is that, through the sphere, visitors are reflected around the architectural space and landscape, accentuated by the artist through the intervention. By focusing on Cerro de la Silla as a main element of the work, Matus seeks to refer to a miniature landscape that can be shown in the visual effect of the sphere. The miniature landscape is achieved with the bird’s-eye view that can sometimes be seen from the top of a mountain, and the journey to the summit is a path of introspection. With the intervention at MARCO, Matus emphasizes Legorreta’s architectural gesture toward the landscape and provides a visual, auditory, and reflective experience for the viewer.

Intervention. Luciano Matus is MARCO’s fourth collaboration for the Patio de las Esculturas, a space that since 2019 has focused on contemporary sculpture as one of the lines of work implemented by Taiyana Pimentel, director of the museum. The first was Index, a collective exhibition with artists such as Mario García Torres and Brian Eno, organized in 2019 together with FF Projects; the second was El ensamble del ocaso, a collective exhibition held with Peana, curated by its founder Ana Pérez Escoto, both located in San Pedro; and the third was Meuser. New production, together with the Nordenhake Gallery, based in Berlin, Stockholm, and Mexico City. Intervention. Luciano Matus is organized together with GEM3.ART, a gallery located in San Pedro.