Marco Antonio
Cruz, a Mexican artist from Mexico City, won the ArtGallery of Ontario?s Grange Prize 2009
The Mexico
Tourism Board supporting sponsor of the Grange Prize
The
Mexico Tourism Board is proud to announce that Marco Antonio Cruz, a Mexican
artist from Mexico City,
won the Art Gallery of Ontario?s Grange Prize 2009.
The works of finalists? Lynne
Cohen from Montreal, Federico Gama from Mexico City, Jin-me Yoon from Vancouver
and Marco Antonio Cruz from Mexico
City were displayed on the prize?s website (www.thegrangeprize.com) for some 60
days and garnered over 53,000 unique visitors by the time voting closed on
May 20. Cruz?s captivating black-and-white photographic series of the blind
in Mexico captured votes from around the world, including Canada, Mexico, the
United States, South Korea, France, Spain, Germany, Peru and China.
The Mexico
Tourism Board supporting sponsor of the Grange Prize
The Mexico Tourism Board is a
supporting sponsor of The Grange Prize along with media sponsors The Globe
and Mail and Bravo Television.The
Mexican Consulate in Toronto
helped to facilitate relationships with the partnering country.
Mexico is a country with an unparalleled cultural and artistic richness.
Its historical and archaeological heritage, spanning back to prehispanic
times, has a lasting influence on the country?s contemporary artistic
expression. Culture is therefore an important factor in tourism
promotion.
Over the last years, Mexican
artists have contributed to position Mexico as a cultural destination.
The Mexico Tourism Board, in turn, promotes art in order to expose Mexican
art to the world?an art vibrant with colour and life, created and developed
by talented artists.
The participation of the Mexico
Tourism Board in the Art Gallery of Ontario reflects the influence of
cultural tourism in Mexico.
The board is pleased to see that Mexican cultural heritage is so proudly
represented abroad.
AGO?s in 2009
With a permanent
collection of more than 73,000 works of art, the Art Gallery of Ontario is
among the most distinguished art museums in North
America. As the imaginative centre of the city, the transformed
AGO dramatically enriches our visitors? experiences and provides greater
access to the full vibrancy of the art museum.
The Mexico Tourism
Board (MTB) brings together the resources of federal and state governments,
municipalities and private companies to promote Mexico's tourism attractions and
destinations nationally and internationally. Created in 1999, the MTB is Mexico?s
tourism promotion agency, and its participants include members of both the
private and public sectors. The MTB has offices throughout North America,
Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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