CULTURAL AGENDA OF THE CONSULATE OF MEXICO IN NEW ORLEANS

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Opening of the exhibition “Mexico in New Orleans a Tale of two Americas” and the Celebration of Cinco de Mayo

Opening of the exhibition

“Mexico in New Orleans

a Tale of two Americas”

and the Celebration of Cinco de Mayo

May 5th, 2015

at the Shaw Center for the Arts in

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Consul of Mexico, Ramon Gonzalez Jameson and

the Chair Advisory Board of the Art Museum of LSU, Fran Harvey

Consul of Mexico, Ramon Gonzalez Jameson.

The Dean of the Art and Design School of LSU, Alkis Tsolakis.

The Art Curator of the LSU Museum of Art, Katie Pfohl.

Vice President of the Advisory Board of the Art Museum of LSU,

Jerry Fischer.

Consul of Mexico, Ramon Gonzalez Jameson and members of

the Advisory Board of the LSU Art Museum.

Art Curator of the LSU Museum of Art, Katie Pfohl and

Consul of Mexico, Ramon Gonzalez Jamseon.

Celebration of Cinco de Mayo at the plaza of the Shaw Center for Arts

in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Opening of the exhibition “Personal Comments on Organic Abstraction”

Opening of the exhibition

“Personal Comments

on Organic Abstraction”

May 1st, 2015

at the Art Gallery of

the Consulate of Mexico in New Orleans

Consul of Mexico, Ramón González Jameson and artist Flor Pandal.

Consul of Mexico in New Orleans, Ramón González Jameson and artist Flor Pandal.

Consul of Mexico in New Orleans, Ramón González Jameson.

Artist Flor Pandal.

Monday, May 4, 2015

MEXICAN MOVIE NIGHT SERIES: screening of the movie “PENUMBRA” By director Eduardo Villanueva

MEXICAN MOVIE NIGHT SERIES

The Consulate of Mexico in New Orleans

cordially invites you to

the screening of the movie

“PENUMBRA”

By director Eduardo Villanueva

Friday May 8th, 2015

Starting at 6:00pm

Free admission

at the Art Gallery of the Consulate of mexico

901 Convention Center Blvd. Suite 118, New Orleans, LA 70130

Synopsis for Penumbra:

A rural Mexican couple, poor and decades past their prime carry about their ritualistic, day-to-day lives awaiting the inevitable, in this pensive film from Mexican director Eduardo Villanueva.. The man, Adelelmo Jimenez, whose face tells stories that his words never do, goes on hunting trips into the woods, setting traps for wild animals and gathering medicinal plants. Meanwhile, his wife, Dolores, tends to their provincial home, washing dishes and preparing whatever meal she can make with what Adelelmo brings home, all the while mourning the death of her son, who was stabbed to death while trying to cross into the U.S.

Like the films of fellow Mexican auteur Carlos Regadas, Penumbra appreciates stillness and likes to linger, oftentimes at length on beautiful imagery. Shot almost exclusively during the magic-hour, right before the sun settles into night (the title means “partially shadowed”), the film examines the quiet twilight of a one couple’s life and finds the beauty in that transitional period from life to death.

MEXICAN DIRECTOR EDUARDO VILLANUEVA

Thursday, April 30, 2015

REINSTATEMENT OF MURAL “LA FRATERNIDAD" ARTIST RUFINO TAMAYO

REINSTATEMENT OF MURAL
“LA FRATERNIDAD"

ARTIST RUFINO TAMAYO

On April 27, 2015, at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York City took place the ceremony reinstalling the mural “La Fraternidad" of the famous Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo.

Reinstalling the mural is a gesture of goodwill from Mexico to the United Nations.This work is display in the lobby of the main entrance of the headquarters of the United Nations where every day thousands of staff and visitors can admire the organization.