Peruvian artist Aldo Chaparro will teach a daily Wood Experimentation Workshop in Tulum´s village market as part of Mycellium Tulum, the first platform for contemporary art on Mexico´s Caribbean coast.
Mycellium Tulum kicks off this season through diverse activities, including Aldo Chaparro´s solo show Fit Like a Glove at Hotel Be Tulum as well as the artist´s interventions in unexpected places, such as When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object at Cenote Caracol and El Dorado at Laguna de Nopalito.
The daily workshop, which runs from December 22^nd through to January 7^th, is free to attend and open to anyone interested in learning wood sculpture techniques. Students from the Superior School of Arts in Yucatan (ESAY) will also be selling their art work at accessible prices.
Mycellium Tulum aims to promote contemporary art and culture as a catalyst for social and cultural transformation. The platform is an initiative of Mexican Adriana Maria Martinez, an art historian and gallerist who has devoted the last decade to promoting art projects of the 21st century in Mexico. Martinez recently relocated to Tulum to launch this new platform, offering artists, art enthusiasts and collectors established and new, a different way to appreciate, produce and consume contemporary art.
The platform Mycellium Tulum confronts both the artist and the viewer with the outstanding beauty of Tulum and emphasizes the urgent need to revere and protect the World´s natural heritage. For this reason Chaparro´s interventions will be conducted with the technical assistance of environmental experts, respecting the ecological balance and complexity that these ecosystems demand.
 

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