Biggest ever Mexican art show opens

Long before the internet or the concept of life in a global village took root, art was the great communicator, breaking the borders of the spoken word and cultural taboos to spread its message. That strength is at the centre of the latest art exhibition to hit the Belizean entertainment scene, courtesy of the Mexican Government. For the next month, more than seventy pieces of art will fill just about every room at the Mexican Cultural Institute. This morning, I stopped by for a preview.

Janelle Chanona, Reporting

The exhibition is called, ?Looking South?: Creators from the Mexican Southeast and features the work of forty artists from Vera Cruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo.

According to curator, Gerardo Espejo, the pieces displayed demonstrate not only the skill of the artists but also bonds common to all cultures.

Gerardo Espejo, Curator, ?Looking South?

?There are strong resemblances of families, family ties are strong here and communications of the bonding of the people. It is a kind of very special management in here from these artists.?

The show includes photographs, paintings, lithographs, sculptures and installations. And in keeping with its theme of unity, much of ?Looking South? looks very familiar.

Gerardo Espejo

?These artists from Mexico that are defined as artists from the south, had a lot of similitude with Belize. You are going to see some of the autographs and you could identify sceneries and people that could be from Belize. They are from Vera Cruz or from Tabasco and other places. So it is surprising; that could be a lot elements that could even identify not only all these states all together but with other parts of the continent like Belize.?

From Belize, the exhibition will head south to other cities in Central America and South America and then north to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

The exhibition officially debuts tonight and will be open to the public from November seventeenth to December fifteenth at the Mexican Cultural Institute on Newtown Barracks. There is no charge to view the art.