CLOSE UP PUERTO VALLARTA 2012

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Close Up is a project created in the Federal District in October 2006 and was originally a sample of video art presented at different venues such as galleries, plazas, museums, universities and festivals. In 2011 it became an International Festival of Video Art taking the name Close Up Vallarta with its official headquarters in Puerto Vallarta.
Close Up Vallarta
The project is an exhibition of materials ranging from Video Arts from Experimental Video, Dance Video, Video Performance, Experimental Short, Video Animation and everything related to art produced on videotape. It is a forum for the interchange of ideas and the promotion of the media that allows visual approach to experimentation.

Close Up Vallarta offers the opportunity to present new video works by emerging and established artists and not only circulates in museums and galleries, but other areas to reach a wider audience, seeking to release video art from a rigid medium with predetermined speech.

This second edition will be held from May 1st to 5th, 2012 at the Arches of the Malecón, the Centro Universitario de la Costa and the Cuale Cultural Center. There will be a video projection section of internationally renowned artists, lectures, workshops and a solo exhibition of the artist Coco Fusco from the Haus der Kunst Gallery in New York.

Among the participating artists will be: Michael Nyman, Hector Falcon, Fernando Llanos, Luis Gárciga, Jorge Catoni, Davis Birks, Janler Mendez, Ralf Ziervogel, OFILL Echevarría, Lourdes Martinez, Ruben Mendez, Frank Guiller, Toby Tatum, Ron Rierson and ArianeLittman.

The official opening of the Festival will be held at the Arches on the Malecón on May 2, 2012 at 8:00 pm with a presentation of a video section of internationally renowned artists and live acts with music by Cubenx and Macario and visuals by Chicharito Magnetico.