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marks of this enhancement is the
creation of the CMA in the 1990s
for the purpose of studying the
arts and bringing together students
and artistts, leading up to
this moment, when a new space
has been opened for the diffusion,
discussion and development of
plastic and multiple media art.
This gallery, which will be managed
by the Morelos Center for
the Arts, is a quaint novelty for the
visitors to the park: a space for art
exhibits within a family environment
for leisure and amusement
provides new possibilities of
approaching the arts and for the
creation of new audiences. Along
these lines, rector Pericles Lavat,
who was present during the opening
ceremony and the celebration
that followed the delivery of
prizes to Pablo Vigil and Mafer
Lara –winners of prizes to the
most outstanding works in the
show awarded by a jury of art critics–
emphasized the advantages
of having an art gallery within a
recreational park (a very unusual
situation in the art world) for the
artistic development in our state.
“Usually, art, in any of its manifestations,
has a halo of exclusivity. It
is elitist –Pericles declared–. And
we are seeking precisely to make
it otherwise. Before we enter the
school system in grammar school
or junior high school, we go to kindergarten,
where we do precisely
this: we paint, we play, we sing,
we dance… and suddenly we find
ourselves cast into the formality of
the world. For instance, when my
son was five, he wished to know
what his father does. So I took him
to CMA to see what the students
were doing, and he said: ‘They
do just like I do’. For this reason,
the existence of this space is very
important to make the children
realize that their drawings, their
sons and their dance deserve respect;
although we are now adults,
let it not be forgotten that we
were children once –that this is an
important form of expression and
that we take it seriously. Perhaps
the people who come to the park
would not enter an art gallery
downtown. Here, they are at an
amusement park and they see this
as one more form of amusement,
and that is just what we want: to
let art shake off its gravity.”
Minerva Ayón, author of an
installation shown at the gallery,
expressed her opinion regarding
the fusion of these two areas: “It
is very important to have an open
space that is so welcoming to all
sorts of publics because it allows
you to leave the enclosed context
that surrounds those of us who
know one another, who devote
our lives to this and who always
attend one another’s art shows,
so we always get similar feedback.
Opening it to these spaces
will elicit new critical comments.
It will be much more nurturing
than a confined space where we
have the same people speaking all
the time.”
Art has value in itself; furthermore,
it helps create cohesion
among us as a society and
reflects us, shaping us into stories
and identities; the production,
display and enjoyment of art are
essential. If contemporary art
has a duty, it is to experiment. In
breaking away from the formal,
ceremonious dynamics that characterize
the traditional manner of
appreciating art, this new space
asserts itself as a complete artistic
artifact.
Pablo Vigil, winner of one of
the two awards to the exhibited
works, with twelve digital illustrations
on marine topics printed
on cotton paper, commented in
regard to the same subject: “It
makes a lot of sense. When I was
a child, this used to be a little
house of horror. This may have
been the venue for a first date,
for a significant encounter or
some such event. My return to
this space after more than twenty
years to display monsters within it
is a huge coincidence.”
The show consists of objects
related by a common concept but
with a wide variety of different
perspectives and techniques