En tribute to Francisco Gomez Pichardo, recently deceased director of the Museum of the People of Guanajuato, is performed simultaneously in their space museums in the cities of Guanajuato and Silao, the exhibition “The Prodigys of the Faith” by the State Institute of Culture. They showed well in museums photographs, paintings, wood carvings and other works

Apart from responding to the expectations of cultural tourism that make the destination Guanajuato religious and that will be enriched with this shows that under the same script aims not only to attract visitors to enjoy more days in the state capital, but it also knows the cultural mosaic identity is manifested through testimony of the faith of our country and culture.

In a press conference the director general of the IEC, Juan Jose Flores Alcocer, said that this art object, which include photographs, former votes, painting, costumes, masks and wood carvings, is the result of work done with advance and the purpose of that Easter is approaching, the directors of museums and Tomas Jose Chavez Morado in Silao, and the Museums Olga Costa and Jose Chavez Morado, Diego Rivera and the People of Guanajuato, in coordination with the institute.

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He said that to achieve this sample was made an alliance partnership with the University of Guanajuato, the Cultural Forum, the Regional Museum Alhóndiga de Granaditas the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Guanajuato delegation, the municipal presidency, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guanajuato, artists and individuals who provided various works and objects of art will be exhibited in the halls mentioned until next April 25.

On the other hand, the coordinator of Museums IEC, Daniel Ruvalcaba, as the directors of museums and Tomas Jose Chavez Morado and Olga Costa and Jose Chavez Morado; Alejandra Espinoza and Marco A. Castro agreed that along with the recalled Francisco Pichardo, organizing “Prodigios of the Faith” represent 5 centuries of living history that remain, permanencía, timeliness and strength, recreated turn in more than 200 pieces and that being the last of the presentations in which the teacher Pichardo participated with great interest and enthusiasm is dedicated to his memory for his momentum to the promotion of Mexican art and universal through the Museum of the People of Guanajuato, which he ran until last 6 March of this year.

And in recognition of the work done in the State Institute of Culture also artist, a native of Aguascalientes, the director of the IEC, Juan Flores Alcocer, inaugurated the “Sala Pichardo” established within the premises of the Museo del Pueblo, the memory of the tireless promoter of arts and culture Francisco Pichardo, followed by a tour of the exhibition “Past votes Guanajuatenses” inside “Prodigios of the Faith,” are “the result of the popular imagery and obey the gratitude of the people by received favors and dedicated to the various religious advocaciones like the Virgin, a saint or a pattern which was invoked at the time of danger or need. ”

Source: Correo Online Newspaper

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