Wednesday walk challenge: A walk into the Contemporary Art Atheneaum Museum

Good morning, my dear steemians! Today I'm bringing you a new Wednesday Walk Challenge post; today's place is the Contemporary Art Atheneaum Museum of Yucatan (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán, MACAY on its Spanish acronym), located in the Historic Downtown of the city of Merida, alongside the Cathedral.

The pictures were taken with my Motorola G6 Play cellphone; I've visited the museum this Saturday, since I was on the Historic Downtown.

There are two entries to the museum: The first one is located on 60th street, aside of the ice cream shop and the jewelry store; the second one is aside the Cathedral, on the Revolution Passage (Pasaje de la Revolución). I always enter to the museum through the second one since it's the nearest. In that passage, in fact, there are some paintings and sculptures, some very beautiful and other pretty strange. This time, the scultpures were part of the series "Fragmentos", work by Patricia Baez. 

The entrance to the museum it's free; you only need to register in reception. There, the receptionist indicates you how you begin your walk: upstairs, right hand, walking in a long corridor until coming across a white wall. In the wall, there are the names of the artists who are exposing their works. 

These art expositions normally last two or three months; this time there were four artists and an artists' cooperative. In addition, there are three permanent art expositions, both of great Yucatecan artists. 

The first exposition was The Eternal Mayans by Pedro Tec, a Yucatecan photographer who portraits people from far communities of Yucatan.

Aside this photographic exposition there was the first permanent painting exhibition. The artist, Fernando Castro Pacheco, died some years ago, but his work will always be exposed; I must tell that his paintings capture Yucatan's essence, specially our history. His talent was so great that some of his painting are exposed also in the Governor's Palace.

After these exhibitions there is one that caught my attention, since it's the first time that a gallery from this city got a place on this museum. The artists' cooperative named Cinco más Uno (Five Plus One) is composed of six local artists: Alberto Urzaiz, Sandra Nikolai, Celina Fernández, Gabriel Peón, Otto Bauerle and Jorge Patrón; their work occupy entirely three rooms; on them you can see their varied works on photography, abstract paintings and portraits.

The next exposition, however, is not an exhibition per se. Actually is a permanent homage to a well known writer, essayist and playwright, Juan García Ponce. This man have collaborated on movies as a screenwriter; his novels and plays were adapted to the movies between the 1960's and 1990's decades. 

In the next room there is the last permanent art exhibition devoted to Juan García Ponce's brother, Fernando, who is an abstract artist.

Outside the exhibtion rooms, you walk through the hall; in the balcony of the left side you can see the Expoforum, where some artist exhibit their work. The artist who was exposed this time was Ghis Thomas, whose abstract paintings have no title.

Aside the Expoforum there was a little room devoted to the new artists, specially the ones who graduated from the Superior School of Arts. This time, the exposition was a collection of drawings named Simbiontes by Abraham Sarabia.

I hope you enjoyed this Wednesday walk edition; if you're visiting Merida or wanting to visit it one day, I hope you can check this place. 

Have a great Wednesday!