The Guadalajara Reporter

Culture center head under heat from critics

The announcement of the upcoming formal unveiling of a work by acclaimed Mexican sculptor Miguel Miramontes highlighted the progress report given by Centro Cultural de Ajijic (CCA) director Efren Gonzalez during a public meeting held Tuesday, August 13.

Miramontes offered the original plaster model of a work he entitled Los Sobrevivientes (the survivors) as a gift to the pueblo of Ajijic with the caveat that the community kick in to forge the bronge casting.  The stunning piece depicts life-size figures of a family escaping a rain storm, conveying the message of the father as the backbone of family unity.

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