| | |  Vallarta Living | Art Talk | September 2008 
Mexican Artists Aim for Record With Independence Art
 Agence France-Presse
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| | People emboss works with references to Mexico's Independence. | | |
Mexico City — Mexican artists and poets created an artwork more than one kilometer (half-mile) long and spread it along a Mexico City avenue to celebrate 198 years of the country's independence this week.
The work, due to be broken up into pieces and distributed across the country, stretched down the central Reforma Avenue and contained messages in pictures and words supporting the independence of Mexico, a former Spanish colony.
Organizers say the work, at 1,135 meters by one meter, breaks a previous Guinness Book of World Records entry by several hundred meters.
Artists said the work was a preparation for massive bicentenary independence celebrations in two years time.
"Each year we'll make a bigger artwork and for that (bicentennial) year (2010) we want to make one 2,010 meters (2,200 yards) long," coordinator Arturo Guerrero told AFP.
Mexico celebrates its independence anniversary on September 15 with a "Grito" or "Shout" in memory of a cry to war by pastor Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1810 which triggered the long struggle for independence.
Mexico's "Grito" is repeated every year from the balcony of the National Palace in Mexico City by the president of Mexico, and echoed by the governor of each state throughout the country. |
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