Mexican art exhibition features watercolours

The embassy may have moved to Belmopan, but life at the Mexican Cultural Centre in Belize City remains busy. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the facility’s first show of the year.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
This year the Mexican Embassy plans to hold seven exhibitions at venues throughout the country. The first show opens tonight at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Belize City. The display features the work of sixty year old Pepe Maya, an artist best known for watercolours. With Maya unable to attend tonight?s opening, it was left to cultural attaché Jorge Lopez Castro to offer a preview.

The pieces showcased in the travelling exhibition are not for sale. Castro says the objective of the show is to share a part of his country?s artistic life with Belizeans.

Jorge Lopez Castro
?Foreign Affairs of Mexico have many exhibitions. And between this year, the exhibition travel about the countries of where Mexico has an embassy or a consulate. And then we show the exhibitions to the people, so that they know the culture of Mexico and the artists of Mexico.?

The show will run for one month before it moves on to Ecuador. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.

The Mexican Embassy says the next show, a photographic exhibition, is scheduled for May.