CASCABEL MOUNTAIN
SATURDAY 6 APRIL 2024, 4-7PM
Cascabel Mountain participating artists and Taller de Terreno invite you to a unique art exhibition in the desert’s serene environment, merging intellect with art through sculptural explorations inspired by Zen philosophy and land art. This event explores the transformative power of space on the mind, presenting sculptures, paintings, and film as catalysts for new perspectives and ways of thinking. It emphasizes the intentional shaping of consciousness through the art of architecture, inviting you to experience and contribute to a collective revolution in mental and spatial architecture.
CASCABEL MOUNTAIN is a participating event of ABC ART BAJA 24.
Cascabel Mountain will take place at Taller de Terreno’s Morada Escondida, represented by The Agency Los Cabos/Todos Santos:
Cascabel Mountain Collective would like to thank TEQUILA DON RAMON for sponsoring our April 6 event!
Tequila Don Ramón was born in 1996, named to honor the surname of a visionary man who wanted to share the heart of Mexico with the world, producing and marketing one of the most emblematic beverages of our country. Over the years, the variety and premium quality of our portfolio has positioned us in the international market as Casa Don Ramón.
The variety of our portfolio and its extraordinary quality has won more than 40 medals in some of the most important spirits competitions in the world, consolidating us as a worthy representative of Agave distillates with a presence in more than 40 countries around the world.
All of our tequilas are 100% Agave Azul Tequilana Weber from the Altos de Jalisco, hand-picked and selected at their exact point of maturation by our jimadores.
First 100 visitors to the event will receive a special GIFT of an artisanal mezcal sipper along with their complimentary tasting.
Come first to grab your one-of-a-kind ceramic mezcal cup.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Kevin Wickham / Taller de Terreno Arquitectura
above: TTA’s Kevin Wickham + Mark Cruz, Project Papalote, Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico
Kevin Wickham, Principal
Wickham has had a passion for minimalism as it relates to living spaces and sculptures that work in harmony with their natural surroundings. He was influenced by self-taught Japanese architect Tadao Ando and his use of concrete to express a minimal relationship between interior and exterior. Over the past 35 years Wickham has designed and built more than 50 of his own projects and countless others for clients and friends in the U.S., Mexico, and Southeast Asia. As early as 25 years ago, Wickham began incorporating passive design into his buildings, including solar energy, water collection, planted roofs, and natural lighting and insulation to make the buildings more sustainable.
“My goal is to create minimal and beautiful living spaces that work in harmony with the site’s natural surroundings.”
Mark Cruz AIA, Project Architect
Mark is a Generalist Architect and Educator, operating a collaboration-based practice throughout the Pacific Rim. He brings technical rigor, contemporary detailing, and digital visualization skills to help create polyvalent spaces with significant ROIs. Broadly experienced in Rural, Suburban, and Urban scales, Mark has developed his design philosophy of collaboration and regional inclusivity through years in academic research and immersive experiences in multiple-disciplinary projects. He has varied professional experience, working in Hospitality and Resort Design, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, and facilitating hundreds of single- and multi-family residences in multiple states. His sense of cooperation and design agency qualifies him to interface efficiently within any project team at any phase, anywhere.
Darina Fedder
Mustang, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm.
Darina Fedder is an artist from Siberia, Russia, who has been living in Los Cabos, Mexico, for more than six years. The focus of her work includes oil painting, abstract, and landscape but she thrives on experimenting with different styles and materials. The goal is for her work to evoke positive feelings through the thoughtful combination of colors, materials and subject matter.
Her passion for art began at early age and was passed down from generation to generation of artists. She was raised to have a deep respect for artists and for the craft. After years of dedicated practice, she was accepted the prestigious Russian art school, No. 1. VM Klykova, Kursk City, where she was professionally trained to draw and paint with watercolors and oil. The magic of Baja California Sur has inspired some of her latest landscape work, and she feels very blessed to be living the Baja lifestyle.
PAOLO MELANDRI
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Paolo Melandri is an Italian painter and sculptor living in the desert just north of Todos Santos.
Oso Mango
Oso Mango's art explores the convergence of technology, particularly AI, and the study of consciousness, prompting questions about the nature of experience and reality.
Oso Mango with his Untitled series
Oso Mango, a Mexican artist with a BFA and MFA from Parsons School NY, has exhibited globally in institutions like the Contemporary Museum of Korea, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and Art Basel Miami. His work is part of esteemed collections in Switzerland, Italy, London, and Miami. Recently moving his studio from Los Angeles to Baja California Sur.
RUDY MENDOZA
copper, wood
Incorporating copper into my sculptures allows me to explore the metal’s tactile warmth, energy conductivity, and also reminds me of the ineffable. By manipulating copper, I engage in a dialogue between form and function, resonating with both physical presence and conceptual depth.
The minimalism allows the material and spiritual to be felt as one: physical form plus accompanying energetic resonance. I combine copper with the tradition of Yakisugi wood burning which symbolizes silence, impermanence, and the void.
The dialogue between the elements invites contemplation, the main objective of the piece. Contemplate the piece, contemplate yourself.
Christa Assad
Christa Assad works with political subject matter, looking through the lens of the female. Assad’s surname tied her to the Syrian War, beginning in 2011. Before that, her work was based in functional ceramics, but after 25 years of potting she moved toward painting with acrylic on plywood to better express her narrative. Assad’s brightly colored portraits and landscapes reveal a palette influenced by her move to Mexico seven years ago. Her focus on the personal stories of women is a response to her own experiences navigating through patriarchal society.
Assad received a BA from Penn State University and an MFA from Indiana University. She was awarded a J. William Fulbright Research and Travel Grant (1993) and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (2005). Her work is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan, Armenia, the Ceramic Research Center at Arizona State University Museum, and the Penn State Fulbright Collection, among others.
CHARLES LINDSAY
above: SE VENDE series, 2021. Aerospace aluminum foil on sculpted topography. Stencil poetry back story. Aluminum frame.
6 by 4 feet / 183 by 122 cm. Made in Baja.
Charles Lindsay is an intermedia artist whose work synthesizes ideas about time, technology, eco-systems and semiotics. He creates immersive environments, sound installations, still and moving pictures, sculptures built from salvaged aerospace and bio-tech equipment. Charles is a Guggenheim Fellow and founder of SETI AIR, the SETI Institute’s Artists in Residence Program. He is currently engaged in consciousness research at Ryosoku-in Zen temple in Kyoto — with a focus on AI.
MINORI MURAKAMI + ZOREN GOLD
Short sequence from “100g Odyssey”, 2024, Film, 78 mins, by Minori Murakami + Zoren Gold.
100g Odyssey, 2024, Film, 78 mins.
"100g Odyssey" is a psychedelic drama-fantasy directed by Minori Murakami and Zoren Gold, depicting the semi-autobiographical journey of artist Mango (portrayed by Oso Parado). Mango, leading an isolated, archaic lifestyle in the wild desert of Baja Sur Mexico, ventures into the untamed depths of his consciousness, experimenting with high doses of magic mushrooms. As Mango delves deeper into these experiences, his inner world begins to merge with reality, enticed by the archetype of the trickster, ultimately revealing deep-seated traumas and complex relationships. Joined by his closest friend and composer Alfie (portrayed by Alf Moctezuma), Mango's exploration leads to a surreal merging of inner realms, challenging perceptions of existence and truth as boundaries blur between reality and illusion.
above: film stills from “100g Odyssey”
Minori Murakami from Japan and Zoren Gold from Germany are filmmakers, photographers, and the founders of Casa Ma (間) in Todos Santos, an artist atelier dedicated to observing awareness in consciousness through art, living spaces, and lifestyle. Their creative ethos, whether expressed in film or interior design, embodies the true essence of reality as experienced through the way of seeing and reframing the perception of the mind. Their lifestyle brand, Onomichiya baja sur, embodies this philosophy through materials that resonate with subtle emotions and echoes of being as part of the human experience. They divide their time between working as directors in Los Angeles, USA, and producing interior designs in Todos Santos, Mexico, as well as traditional artisanal creations in Japan.
Jenni ward
Jenni Ward is a ceramic sculptor and installation artist who finds inspiration through her exploration of the natural world. Her time spent connecting to her environment and exploring way above and way below sea level is an integral part of her process. With a particular interest in the patterns and structures of biological forms, she takes inspiration from those spaces to create abstract interpretations of thoughtfully crafted ceramic sculptures.
Using clay as her primary medium, she assembles the pieces into ephemeral installations in nature, which are documented and then removed. These parts are later transformed for gallery installations and independent objects but creating ephemeral installations in nature is the heart of her art practice from which everything else evolves. Her work plays with the connectivity of the form to its environment finding a sense of place within the systems of nature. She has exhibited her work in museums, galleries, forests, deserts and even on a shipwreck under the Atlantic Ocean. Her work ties science, environmentalism and art together in the hopes of inspiring others to preserve, protect and enjoy our wild spaces.
Cascabel Mountain Collective would like to thank NOBLE COYOTE for sponsoring our March 16 event!
