Of the 20 cultural program events held on the occasion of the XIX Olympiad, Mexico 68, no doubt the World Children's Painting Festival was aroused by a true spirit of universal brotherhood. Each participating country opened a call for your children to express feelings of friendship through painting, this is how they got to Mexico more than 1,500 drawings in a variety of techniques.
In October 1968, children around the world gather in Chapultepec Park to express their ideals over 120 murals, while arming Sound installations that made the woods ring, making the Paseo de la Reforma in a huge art gallery. Today, 42 years after its creation profoundly decimated and almost forgotten undertake to return home to reunite with the vast universe of life and hope.
397 surviving drawings, expressions that give life to an ideal world. Murals 38 2.40 x 2.40 meters in endless shades painted on aluminum sheets, which are still among us, giving life to an ideal world.
The proposed rescue and preservation of heritage, would not be possible without a viewer excited to see the color intensity and depth clean of the ideas that were embodied in each of these unique paintings. The uniqueness of the collection lies in its ability to accommodate a number of opinions with no association with current or influences, allowing you to enter unconditionally in all social and cultural world.
Proceeds from the sale of 68 MEXICO BALLOON are to benefit the rescue preservation and dissemination of the collection of murals and drawings that comprise the World Children's Painting Festival. In a collaborative project, Fundación BBVA Bancomer, Kay International Trust and Friendship Road AC protect this excellent collection. Have made only 250 pieces, replicas of the balloons used to promote the año1968 games, made by Kay in the sixties as well in this new edition 2010.
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