Sedeculta Creates Colorful Catalog for the Artists of Yucatán
In Situ, a new two-part catalog of Yucatán’s best-known artists, is online and filled with information and images.
Sedeculta’s colorful catalog features portraits of each artist and a small portfolio of their work, all accessible free online or at kiosks set up at the Center for Visual Arts, or the Centro de Artes Visuales, where a reception was held to introduce it. Yucatán Magazine was a proud sponsor of the event.
Ana Ceballos Novelo, Sedeculta’s director of artistic development and cultural management; Rosa Arteaga Silva, the head of visual arts; and Leticia Fernández, the coordinator of Visual Arts of the Yucatán University of the Arts formally presented the project to the agency’s leader, Loreto Villanueva Trujillo.
Ceballos Novelo pointed out that the compendium meets “a need in the field and in the visual arts sector to know who we are, to make ourselves visible and in some way to have a document that would serve to share the work and directions of the artists.”
Artists’ voices
Arteaga Silva noted that In Situ differs from other catalogs because the creators were given a voice so that they could describe their own work.
The archive is a copyrighted work with an ISBN registration, like any other book. It is also a useful resource to show the world what Yucatecan artists and residents generate, both in the capital of Mérida and in smaller municipalitie.
Lee Steele is the founding director of Mérida-based Roof Cat Media S de RL de CV and has published Yucatán Magazine and other titles since 2012. He was Hearst Connecticut’s Sunday Magazine creative director and worked in New York City for various magazine publishers, including Condé Nast and Primedia, for over 20 years.
