MACO

Yesterday I went to Maco (Mexico Arte Contemporáneo) that is an art expo with more of 70 galleries of all over the world. The good thing about these expos is that in the same place you can appreciate the tendencies of contemporary art.

There are also the stands of art magazines that also serve as a guide of the new tendencies or of the new art magazines in the market. This is the 3rd edition of Maco and every year you can see new things and remember the old ones. I think that this kind activity is a good effort to show that Mexico is an attractive place for showing and selling art.

Last year there were 19,000 assistants, I hope that this one there were more. The problem that I perceived is that contemporary art, as art in general, but is more remarked in contemporary art, is limited to a very little portion of people. The generality of the persons are used to very traditional art expressions and these new expressions sometimes can’t be well understood or are disqualified at the first sight. So this kind of expositions can serve as a very good introduction to all kind of persons to this new kind expressions of art, that sometimes differ completely form the traditional ones.