HOTEL TRINIDAD / collective exhibition
09/2020
|Salón Gallos, Mérida, Yucatán
is a tribute exhibition to Manolo Rivera curated by Jose Garcia Torres with works by Gustavo Monroy, Yolanda Mora, José García Torres, Manolo Rivero, Germán Venegas, José García Ocejo, Leandro Soto, Diego Gutierrez / Kees Hin
Time & Location
09/2020
Salón Gallos, Mérida, Yucatán
About the event
"My obsession with art is not about my own art, but the one of others."
M. Rivero
It was the summer of 2006 the first time I visited Merida, I arrived directly to check-in at the Trinidad Hotel after having traveled more than 1,500 kilometers by road. The hotel was on Calle 60 and 51 in the center of the city. A place full of works of art, antiques and curiosities located throughout the site with a chaotic and whimsical order; what had been the showroom of an automotive agency was used as a hotel lobby which connected with an art gallery and an antique shop. There were plants, fountains, sculptures and glass spheres creating an eclectic and surreal tropical atmosphere.
Meanwhile Manolo, the owner of the hotel, was preparing for his next and what would be the last trip of his life. A few days later he…