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arquitecture
Mexicans
Build in China
Nine Mexican architectural firms will participate
in Ordos, a project for a new city
within the territory of Inner Mongolian Autonomous
Region of the People´s Republic of
China.
art
restoring
frida
kahlo’s
work
A significant part of Frida Kahlo’s work
will be restored with help from the German
government.
The Mexico City museum that bears
her name will receive a grant of about
70,000 usd to be used for restoring 40%
of the artist’s work: around 14 oil paintings,
100 photographs, 13 textile pieces
and other restorations of pieces found at the
museum.
The German government made this donation
for several reasons: to help honor
Mexico’s Bicentennial celebration of its independence;
and to help celebrate the 20 year
anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the
most famous Mexican painters in the world.
www.milenio.com
SUMMER IN GERMANY
For summer 2010, Mexico will send
to Berlin a Frida Kahlo retrospective
made up of around 80 pieces.
photo rojkind arquitectos
From Mexico to China
Mexican firms collaborating
on the project:
• Dellekamp Arquitectura
• Productora
• At103
• Tatiana Bilbao
• Frida Escobedo
• FRENTE arquitectura
• Rojkind Arquitectos
• Taller Territorial de México
literature
Jorge Volpi’s
Scarce Dream
El insomnio de Bolívar (Bolivar’s Insomnia) has
won Mexican writer Jorge Volpi the Debate-
Casa de América nonfiction prize.
According to the jury of the prize, awarded
by Casa de América and publisher Random
House Mondadori through its Debate imprint,
Volpi’s book is “thoroughly documented,
avoids an academic tone and with humor, irony
and great literary accomplishment contrib-
utes to the comprehension of the American
continent.” The honor includes a prize of about
50,000 usd and publication of the book in Spanish
language countries.
Volpi is author of En busca de Klingsor (In
Search of Klingsor, 1999), that won him the
Spanish literary prize Biblioteca Breve and the
French Deux Oceans-Grizane Cavour prize,
and has been translated into 25 languages. In
2008, he published El Jardín devastado (The
Devastated Garden).
www.casamerica.es
This project, from Chinese magnate Cai Jiang,
began in 2008. It will be a city built in about
10 years and is meant to have a population of
around 200,000 people. Besides residences,
Ordos’ urban landscape will be comprised of
cultural and commercial complexes.
During the first stage, 100 firms from 27
countries were chosen to build homes measuring
1,000 square meters. Mexico has the
third largest number of participants in the
Ordos projects, behind the United States and
Switzerland. Each firm received more than
41,000 usd.
www.ordos100.com
photo daniel mordzinski