Fundación Casa de Mexico in Spain celebrates Mexican Christmas with a program of activities for the whole family and an exhibition of cribs from Mexico, until January 7, which highlights the popular art of Mexico.
The main Bethlehem is made up of thirty-four figures made in the craft technique of cartonería. In addition to the typical characters of nativity scenes, such as the Holy Family, Magi, shepherds and animals, a selection of characters representing the most outstanding folk dances of Mexico is included. The different traditional dances of Mexico present in the crib as the dance of the deer or the dance of the old men.
Mexican cartonería is a craft technique that consists of creating figures and objects using paper, cardboard, paste (a mixture of flour and water that acts as glue) and paints of vivid colors. This technique is mainly used to make traditional figures such as alebrijes, skulls, masks, piñatas and judas, each with a particular symbolism and role in Mexican festivities and rituals.
The tour is complemented by 20 smaller births in various craft techniques from various regions of the country, 11 of which are new. Some of the techniques present are: clay modeled and glazed, wood of carved pepper, carved volcanic stone, carved obsidian, jícara labrada, natural clay modeled by hand with technique of pastillaje and burnished with engobes minerals, wood carved and polychromed, natural clay molded and modeled by hand with technique of pastillage, dotted and openwork.
Symbolizing the Christmas tree, in this edition from the street receives the visitor a quiote (plant of the family agaváceas) four meters high and an arch of flowers made with totomoxtle (dried corn leaf).
