Nowadays the world may look like a big Carnival, surrealistic and confusing. Priorities are up side down. The fear to show yourself as you are, put almost everyone behind a mask, either to protect you or hide. We have created so many different personalities with so many masks, that choosing the right one is the clue  to happiness.

Magik Masks is an utopia, is the ideal Mask that everyone should put on. They represent the deep and first meaning of the mask as the symbol of Freedom.  A Carnival, the game to play, taking life not so seriously, but with a light and colorful energy. The stories that are told by the Huichol people in every mask are our own deep memories, the projection of ourselves, our connection with the Universe and Mother Nature.

Magik Masks allows us to be Us, the real one, with no fear and nothing to hide.

Magik Masks theme: FREEDOM

The venetian mask as the symbol of freedom and protest to the rules of a society that is losing sight of the essential and most important, the connection with our deepest self, with Nature.

Life seen as a Carnival, where we are invited to participate in a light and cheerful way. We are free to choose the mask that we believe appropriate for us in each situation and we are the only ones responsible for that choice.

The Huichol people as one of the few tribes that exists nowadays, that do not follow power but the preservation and protection of  Mother Nature.Their freedom to follow their own rules and responsabilities, what they consider important. Their unique talent to tell stories through the use of beads and their impeccable use of colors.

Objectives of the exibition Magik Masks:

• To show the beauty and uniqueness of these masks around Europe, America and the world.
• Raise awareness and show Wirikuta’s problem. Nowadays the Wirikuta desert listed within the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, is living the hardest days ever, the Huichol people are standing against the exploitation  and destruction of their soil by foreign mining companies.
• Create an empathy between two worlds.
• Protect and promote the great art of hand making. Venetians artisans and the Huichol people, are two living examples of a legacy that is slowly dying.
• Today the power of ideas can actually make ​​long distances, shorter. Can show that different cultures, countries and customs that we thought could never melt, engage or unite, in reality can coexist in perfect harmony and even more, can create beauty.
• Give the possibility of an open dialogue between the mask and viewer. Open a space for reflection on the person, the personality, the mask.

About the masks:

• They are 50
• Every single one is unique.
• Every single one tells a sacred story.
• Every single one has been created by the hands of the Venetian artisans.
• Every single one is decorated with little beads by the healing hands of the Huichol people.

A little bit of history:

In the 1600, Venetian beads embarks on the ports of Venice and navigate  a long way to the distribution centers in the East and Colotlán Chalchiuites in northern Mexico, where they reach for the first time, the hands of the Huichol people.

Through these masks , the beads return to Venice in a unique way.

Magik Masks is also the story of a circular journey.