MACAY Presents Eight New Exhibits

Digital art, graphic art, painting, watercolor and sculpture make up the eight new exhibits that MACAY Museum presents to close the year 2011. Manel Pujol Baladas (Cataluña, 1947) heir of the Spanish school by tradition and by personal relation with the three greats of the 20th century: Picasso, Dalí and Miró, presents (salons 9, 10 and 11) Symphonic Dialogues, from Mahler to Pettersson.

The 57 works are a "pictorial symphony", based on the author's interpretation of the music of Gustav Mahler and Allan Pettersson, whose music has served to manifest Pujol's ability to synthesize; his paintings not only interpret the music, but extract its essence, and allows us to sensually experience the peculiarity of sound through the paintbrush.

"Silencios a Vitados" by Mario Martín del Campo (Jalisco, 1945) includes 75 works of sculpture, collage, oil, enamel and drawing (salons 6 and 7). His hybrid or fictional characters display much of the pleasant character of their creator, using combinations of materials which surprise the observer.

Eric Pérez also is present with his works in salons 4 and 5, including 21 large format oils on cloth. In Pérez's work (Mexico city, 1972) memory plays a fundamental role as a mechanism which amalgamates experiences, dreams, and fictions. Another important factor is the place. Eris is not so much a painter of places as he gives new meaning to ordinary settings.

Beatriz Castillo invites the public to search behind the first glance of each piece and material that she has used to make up the ample collection located in the Expoforo at MACAY. The exhibit allows us to know three facets of the Yucatecan sculptor: the most well-known, sculpture, but also painting and engraving.

Using a thread counter, César Rangel shows us a body of work which includes drawing, photography, sculpture and painting; all of which carries a link to the form and depth of a fragment of the fresco by Miguel Ángel Bounarroti over the final judgment (salon 11 Bis). Meanwhile, Camilo Pérex Aguad uses transfer as acreative possibility with which he displays personal doubts. As well, featuring digital illustration, Antonio Mendoza exhibits Ingenuous Art (salon 19), 17 works based on digital art, with kitsch and naïve tendencies. Lastly, under the title Interconnections (salon 8 bis) Luis Alberto Ruíz presents 20 watercolors. His works are pure and defined, full of texture, splattered and transparent, with great value.

Until December 30. Free entry.

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