Pedro Lasch: Entre líneas / Between the Lines, the first museum retrospective exhibition of associate professor of the practice Pedro Lasch’s large body of work, was installed at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda / Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) in Mexico City, and ran fr om November 22, 2023 - May 19, 2024.
While renowned for his pedagogical and socially engaged artworks, this exhibition is centered on the presentation of thirteen key series from the 1990s to the present that include painting, drawing, sculpture, public art proposals, photography, and video installations. The exhibition’s one hundred artworks were divided into four thematic sections, which include “art as a tool,” “games,” “fiction,” and “displacement.” Curated by Lucía Sanromán, the exhibition was organized by the Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México (Ministry of Culture of Mexico) and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature), through Laboratorio Arte Alameda.
Articles and reviews of the retrospective have been published in ArtForum, e-flux Criticism, El Universal, Medium, Crónica, and Reforma, among others. It has also been featured on several national television programs in Mexico.
The exhibition’s bilingual catalogue (Spanish-English), published in 2024 by Temblores Publicaciones, Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (National Institute of Fine Arts & Literature), and the Secretaría de Cultura (Culture Ministry), will be distributed in Mexico, United States, Latin America, and Europe. Thoroughly illustrated with works from all series in the exhibition, it includes essays by Lucía Sanromán, Helena Chávez Mac Gregor, Marycar Bastida, Pao Gallardo, Paloma Gómez Puente, Renato González Mello, Anna Indych López, and Bill Kelley Jr., as well as an introduction by Lucina Jiménez (INBAL Director), and Alejandra Frausto (Minister of Culture).
