2.5–8.2026

Feria Material 2026
Mexico City

NOON Projects is honored to return to Material Fair for the third time, presenting new works by Antonia Pinter and Michael Lombardo.

Michael Lombardo’s paintings transform personal and regional iconography into radiant objects of devotion. Raised in Oklahoma by a Panamanian mother, Lombardo explores hybrid identity through a Midwestern vernacular—rhinestone Western shirts, rose rocks, concert tees, and souvenirs charged with longing, labor, and inheritance. For Material 2026, he presents a new body of paintings and objects reflecting on his Hispanic upbringing and his queer experience in the American Midwest. By interlacing family relics, foraged shells, and Latin American devotional motifs, Lombardo creates bridges between cultural memory and personal myth.

Often built on shaped canvases and hand-ground pigments mixed with soil gathered from Panama and Oklahoma, Lombardo’s surfaces shimmer with sincerity and meticulous detail. His practice is guided by emotional intelligence—eschewing irony for reverence, care, and generosity.

Antonia Pinter—sculptor and one half of the collaborative practice A History of Frogs—creates objects that move fluidly between tool, ornament, and talisman. Grounded in metalworking traditions, her sculptures draw from myth, ancestral craft, and the porous borders between natural and supernatural realms. For Material 2026, Pinter debuts a series of cast bronze and brass bells named for mythological figures and elemental spirits, including Dogoda, Pan, Aurai, and Nieve. Sonic as much as sculptural, these bells invoke wind, breath, and water, attuned to thresholds, vibrations, and unseen forces. Subtle in their asymmetry and luminous in surface, the works feel at once unearthed and enchanted—objects meant to be held, heard, and carried.

Rooted in folk craft and narrative tradition, Pinter’s broader practice spans jewelry, clothing, furniture, and sculpture, unified by a belief in the ritual life of objects. The bells introduced here continue her exploration of sculpture as materialized mythology—small monuments to forgotten deities and to the energies that move between worlds.

Together, Pinter and Lombardo offer a resonant dialogue on craft, memory, and the spiritual charge embedded in handmade objects. Both center process: casting metal with ritual precision or shaping canvases into symbolic relics. Their works invite slowness, attention, and attunement to the stories objects carry.

This presentation reflects NOON Projects’ commitment to intergenerational storytelling, diasporic memory, and the handmade as a site of reverence, resistance, and connection—brought to Mexico City, a place where layered histories and tactile traditions hold profound cultural significance.

Fair

Booth C03 

Material Art Fair
Maravilla Studios

C. Sabino 310, Atlampa, Cuauhtémoc, 06450 Cuauhtémoc, CDMX, Mexico

Opening Hours:
Thursday, February 5th
VIP By Invitation Only, 12 – 5 pm
Public Opening, 5 – 8pm
Friday, February 6th, 12 – 8pm
Saturday, February 7th, 12 – 8pm
Sunday, February 8th, 12 – 7pm