New exhibits at MACAY: July-September 2011

Sebastián visits Mérida with more than 30 small and medium format sculptures under the title “Sebastián Hablando en Plata” (Sebastián Speaking in Silver).  The works, made from silver, show a new facet of the renowned Mexican sculptor, as well as the recognition of the ancestral art of silver in this country. Since 1968,  when he began as an artist, he has had over 120 individual exhibits in America, Europe, and Asia.

Hector de Anda, multidisciplinary artist, exhibits “Construcción-Deconstrucción.” He mainly uses discarded every-day objects, transforming them into the telling of new stories. De Anda was the fashion editor for Vogue Mexico and Image Director for TV Azteca.

Akiko Miyashita, from Gifu, Japan, exhibits sculptures and impressions on paper using the millenary technique: takuhon (which gives the name for her exhibit), which is the technique of wrapping natural or every-day objects with kozo paper and transferring their forms to previously dampened paper, sometimes stained,  thereby reproducing their form and volume.

Manuel Calvo, from Madrid, presents Yemen, a hard and luminous corner of the world, with 77 photographic works documenting his trip to this country. As the photographer can confirm, because their civil war makes travel difficult by land to many of the country's regions,  he had to travel by plane or visit out-of-the-way places escorted by armed guards.

Over three decades of her career, Sylvia Ramírez Rello has modified her expressive and figurative style. On this occasion she presents marble and onyx carving under the title Sylvia Ramírez Rello 2011, consisting of 16 sculptures. She was distinguished by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels and received the Flanders International Club medal, Brussels.

Georgia Charuhas, US artist, exhibits Leyendas de Horizontes Perdidos (Legends of the Lost Horizons). The artist explores Greek and Mayan mythology, where medusas and other beings mix with xtabayes, aluxes and kisines. Her bestial figures appear in both Hades and Xibalbá, the underworlds of the Greek and Mayan cultures, respectively.

Through object art, Mónica reyes finds the elements to explore existence, identity, duality: separation-union, fraction-totality, decomposition-synthesis, as well as that identity which allows us to perceive ourselves as separate beings from reality; this is where the exhibit title comes from: Si me Sueltas, me Caigo (If you let go of me, I fall).

To September 30, 2011.

Museo MACAY
Calle 60, Next to Cathedral on Plaza Grande.
Tel. (999) 928 3258 & 928 3236.

Open: Every day except Tuesday 10:00 - 18:00 hrs. 

Admission: Free.
www.macay.org

Recommended reading:
- Museums in Merida
- Art Galleries in Merida
- 15 Years at the MACAY Museum