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MERIDA OF YUCATAN, CITY OF SCULPTURE Meridas city council, the Fundacion Cultural MACAY, A.C (a non-profit foundation), and the people of Merida, conceived and created the program Merida de Yucatan, Ciudad de la Escultura (Merida of Yucatan: City of Sculpture), as the high point of the Arte en la Calle (Art on the Street) project,. This project was started in 2001 by the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan (MACAY, Contemporary Art Museum of Yucatan) in Merida, capital city of the state of Yucatan, Mexico. On April 29th, 2004, with Mexico as the first guest country, Mérida de Yucatán, Ciudad de la Escultura was declared open on the beautiful Paseo de Montejo avenue. Thirty-four monumental sculptures were displayed along this grand avenida, as well as nine others, next to the museum (MACAY) on the Pasaje Escultórico near the main plaza. The invited artists were: Uros Uscebrka, Palle Seiersen Fronst, Herbert Hofmann Yssenbourg, Jaime Anzures, Paul Kevin, Isidro Castellanos, Masafumi Hosumi, Rosario Guillermo, Rafael Villar, Adán Paredes, Maseru Goji, Antonio Nava, Marysole Wörner Baz, Jeannette Betancourt, Jesús Mayagoitia, Ana María Montes de Oca, Emilio Farrera, Estanislao Contreras, Kenneth Armitage, Kyoto Ota Okuzawa, Adalberto Bonilla, Luis Aguilar, Lynn Chadwick, Gerardo Azcúnaga, Hiroyuki Okumara, Roberto Rodríguez, Manuel Velásquez, Armando Ortega Orozco, Ana Cristina Mejía Botero, Naomi Siegman, Gerda Gruber, Pablo Kubli, Sergio Galán, Hugo Schiaffino and Francisco Zúñiga. Recently, the city council and Fundación Cultural MACAY, requested the United States of America, through the American Embassy in Mexico, to be the guest of honor for the year 2005, and the request was formally accepted. For this reason well be actively involved in recommending and supporting the exhibits of well-known and young artists who are dedicated to monumental sculptures intended to be exhibited in open spaces. With the invaluable help of the American Embassy, our goal is to further join our two countries through this marvelous mean of expression: art. The sculptures will be exhibited for ten months on Paseo de Montejo, the majestic main avenue of Merida, They will be enjoyed and admired by locals as well as about one and a half million tourists annually from Mexico and all over the world The logistics of packing and two way transporting, insurance, display, lighting, scenography, and all technical related issues, are supervised by Prof. Silvia Madrid Sánchez, (coordinacion@macay.org). For more information about the MACAY, visit: www.macay.org |
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