We've covered scores of art exhibits at the institute of Mexico, but one that opens tonight is the biggest ever. The show features works from 40 Mexican artists displaying a combined 71 pieces. Entitled "Looking South", the show features artists from the southern part of Mexico. Organizer, Gerardo Espejo says that Belizean viewers might find something of themselves in these pictures.
Gerardo Espejo,
"The number of pieces we're bring here is 72 works of different artists from a group of states that are defined as the states of the south and these states are Vera Cruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatan. Its very eclectic because each one of the artists has their own kind of language, their own point of view, their own technique, and their own style. So some of the artists work with paints, others with graphics, others with installations with sculptures, with photography, and with lithographs. So there's a mixture of everything."
"For the group itself that its wonderful to have the opportunity to show what we are doing in art right now because its not only paintings that are kind of folkloric. They are not painting only pantries or seashores and flamingos and jungles and pieces like that. These are people that are very committed to contemporary and worldwide language that could be put in an exhibit with artists from all over the world."
The exhibit opens tonight and runs up until the 15th of December.
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