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Pieces included in Unno Gallery’s first exhibition were photographed in a sublime early 20th-century Porfirian house in Mexico City, which was restored a few years ago by renowned architect Alberto Kalach. The works themselves span multiple collections, from Quintessenza by Laura Abe Vettoretti, to Tequitqui by Cesar Nuñez, to Nusca by Laura Abe Vettoretti and Maria Dolores. All are, Uribe and Vettoretti explain, “an homage to our culture and our land [and] the abstraction and rawness of the visual language inherited by our ancestors.” The two founders note too that “Latin America is where we were born. It’s in our veins…. We want to [show] the world how differently we see it through our eyes compared to [how] it is [often] portrayed.”
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Casa Dragones Bertha González Nieves on Art, Mexican Heritage and How Casa Dragones Became a Museum Worthy Tequila
With a new artist edition bottle by Pedro Reyes, the Casa Dragones cofounder shares her company’s story and its firm association with artists
Matthew McLean: How did tequila become your passion?
Bertha González Nieves: Since I was young, I felt drawn to being an entrepreneur. At the start of my twenties, I applied for a place to represent Mexico on a cultural programme run by the Japanese government. Part of this a six month scholarship to travel the country and learn our economy and industries, so I could talk about them with authority. One of the stops was three days in Tequila, in Jalisco, where the drink was born. Well, on the first day there I called my parents, and said ‘I know what I want to do now’: and it was tequila. From then on, I spent a decade working for the eldest producer in the category – a family owned business, going