La Cuadra San Cristóbal, the historic home designed by Luis Barragán and his protégé Andrés Casillas, was acquired in 2017 by Fundación Fernando Romero, a nonprofit established by architect and philanthropist Fernando Romero. Last year Romero announced plans to transform La Cuadra into a new, public cultural destination.

As part of Mexico City’s Art Week, La Cuadra is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Untitled pieces by Gonzalez-Torres were strategically dispersed throughout La Cuadra as part of the exhibition.

Two circular mirrors were placed on the ground, reflecting the sky and pink surfaces of the architecture back to viewers. Strings of gold beads were hung in between one of the facade apertures in the exterior, challenging the way guests experience the architecture. In one of the stalls for horses, a string with lights dangles, inviting viewers inside.

Barragán and Gonzalez-Torres never met each other in their lifetime, however the show “proposes a poetic dialogue and encounter” between them, a curatorial statement affirmed.

Romero curated the show with architect Pablo León de la Barra. “There’s something profoundly moving about seeing Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work framed by Barragán’s masterful pink courtyard: a dialogue in which love, silence, and beauty astonish all who behold it,” Romero said.

Romero is today shepherding a multi-phase plan for the campus over the next 10 years that will add new pavilions adjacent to the Barragán compound, one of which will be a timber structure by Kengo Kuma. Marina Abramović has been invited to create a temporary intervention in the campus’s courtyard, where a shallow water feature is on full view.

The exhibition is open at La Cuadra through April 8.

Other works on view as part of Art Week included a group show titled Reuse: Architectures of Almost Nothing, curated by Edgar Rodriguez, of the Mexico City– and Syracuse-based office operadora and María Muñoz. Reuse featured 15 installations by 51N4E, Bangkok Tokyo Architecture, and other firms, as reported by AN.