One of the purposes of Mayo Cultural Festival in Jalisco is to bring art to the public and approach the tapatíos, from the street and the daily walk, to A significant cultural experience, but also invites reflection and open new perspectives of the hand of art.
“ECOS, the song of the unknown”, is an artistic and interactive installation of large format, arranged in the place of liberation of the Historic Center, which from May 8 to June 8 will take people every day to an awareness of marine life and the impact of humans on the ocean. The installation, which is part of the May Cultural Festival, presents a real -size sculpture, of a one -year -old blue whale, a determining moment in the life of these meek giants, because it is when they separate from their mother and enter them alone and forever in the blue immensity of the sea.
The work, created by Mathias Gmachlincorporates sound elements that go back to the bubbling and submarine atmosphere where these cetaceans develop, in addition to reproducing their mysterious songs with which they communicate with each other. That is to say; The tapatios can “Escuchar” The voice of this whale that, with just one year, has started the loneliness of his life.
“Echoes, the song of the unknown”, He immediately called the curiosity of the Tapatíos, who approached the sculpture to take photos, listen to it, and be amazed with the greatness – and also the fragility – of nature, reproduced through art and taken to the public space. Tourists also portrayed cetacean made of metal. This was the case for Alondra and Darío, who attended the historic center especially to see the sculpture. “The whale is very beautiful,” Alondra said.
-The family of Pina, mine, Noah and Sandrathey were surprised to know that this is the real size of a one -year whale. “It’s very impressive, very beautiful, and what better than in the streets of Guadalajara,” Shared Mrs. Pina.
David, meanwhile, seemed very good to take art to the public. “What a father who bring these things to the center, I did not even imagine that a baby whale was that big, one stays small,” he said.
Many people will not even have the opportunity to see a whale in life: “Echoes, the song of the unknown”, is then a unique opportunity to approach the fragile and spectacular greatness that inhabit our planet, that travel the oceans, and that are now present in the streets of Guadalajara through the May Cultural Festival in Jalisco.
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