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Hasta el 18 de junio de 2021, la Embajada de M\u00e9xico en Irlanda nos invita a disfrutar de su nueva exposici\u00f3n, organizada junto con el Museo La Esquina<\/a>, sobre los juguetes tradicionales mexicanos. En esta exposici\u00f3n h\u00edbrida, llevada a cabo en la propia Embajada y a trav\u00e9s de su p\u00e1gina web<\/a>, se pueden conocer los juguetes de la colecci\u00f3n del Museo del juguete popular mexicano que han protagonizado los juegos infantiles de los ni\u00f1os mexicanos a lo largo de los a\u00f1os. A trav\u00e9s de esta exposici\u00f3n, el p\u00fablico irland\u00e9s tendr\u00e1 una nueva perspectiva sobre lo fascinantes que son los juguetes tradicionales mexicanos y c\u00f3mo ayudan a los ni\u00f1os a conectar con su propia cultura. Pese a que algunos objetos nos pueden resultar un poco extra\u00f1os o incluso incomprensibles, la exposici\u00f3n nos recuerda la alegr\u00eda que nos proporcionan los juguetes a lo largo de nuestras vidas y la importancia de mantener viva la pr\u00e1ctica de los juegos tradicionales infantiles dentro de la sociedad contempor\u00e1nea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n En el fondo, la Embajada de M\u00e9xico anima al p\u00fablico adulto a ahondar en el significado cultural de estos objetos y ayuda a sumergirnos en la nostalgia de los juguetes con los que guard\u00e1bamos una estrecha relaci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os. A trav\u00e9s de una serie de entrevistas breves que se encuentran en la p\u00e1gina web de la Embajada, aprendemos sobre la fabricaci\u00f3n artesanal de estos juguetes mexicanos y su persisente popularidad entre los ni\u00f1os y los adultos. A falta de una cultura ind\u00edgena artesanal en torno a los juguetes tradicionales en Irlanda, la exposici\u00f3n subraya la capacidad general de esos objetos de sacarnos de nuestras vidas cotidianas para transportarnos a un mundo sobre el que nosotros tenemos el control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n La exposici\u00f3n tiene como objetivo principal \u2018revelar M\u00e9xico a trav\u00e9s del juego y el juguete popular\u2019. En este sentido, lo m\u00e1s relevante de esta exposici\u00f3n es que nos ofrece la oportunidad de imaginar los mundos que crean los ni\u00f1os con estos juguetes y c\u00f3mo los convierten en distintos objetos y personajes que s\u00f3lo tienen sentido dentro de los propios universos que se inventan. A lo largo de la exposici\u00f3n vemos un conjunto de figuritas tejidas que retratan personajes representativos de la sociedad campesina mexicana. A diferencia de las figuras tejidas con las que juegan los ni\u00f1os irlandeses, que se venden mayoritariamente en las grandes jugueter\u00edas comerciales, estas figuras llaman la atenci\u00f3n por su dise\u00f1o intrincado y su relaci\u00f3n evidente con las tradiciones hist\u00f3ricas de la sociedad mexicana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adem\u00e1s de mostrarnos otros objetos fascinantes, como las famosas maracas y pi\u00f1atas mexicanas, la exposici\u00f3n nos muestra el uso de las m\u00e1scaras de lucha libre mexicana y lo importante que son en el contexto del juego infantil mexicano. Los irlandeses podemos recordar habernos disfrazado de nuestros personajes favoritos de las pel\u00edculas de acci\u00f3n en nuestra ni\u00f1ez as\u00ed como disfrutar asumiendo las personalidades de estos h\u00e9roes que pertenec\u00edan a un mundo totalmente distinto al nuestro. Al igual que los ni\u00f1os irlandeses, que todav\u00eda se disfrazan de estos h\u00e9roes de acci\u00f3n, esta exposici\u00f3n de las m\u00e1scaras de lucha libre nos recuerda el deseo com\u00fan de los ni\u00f1os de transportarse a otro mundo en el que puedan comportarse como sus propios \u00eddolos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Debido a la variedad de los juguetes que se muestran en esta exposici\u00f3n, podemos valorar la cultura artesanal mexicana, que contribuye a la fabricaci\u00f3n de estos objetos y su fuerte relaci\u00f3n con la sociedad del pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Texto de Philip McGuinness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Nostalgic Return to Childhood: Exhibition of Traditional Toys in the Mexican Embassy in Ireland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From the 21st<\/sup> of May to the 18th<\/sup> of June 2021, the Mexican Embassy in Ireland invites us to view its current cultural exhibitions, organised in conjunction with Mexico\u2019s Museo La Esquina<\/a>, showcasing traditional Mexican toys. In this hybrid exhibition, held both physically within the Embassy as well as via their website<\/a>, we are encouraged to explore the traditional toys that have characterised Mexican children\u2019s games. Through this exhibition, Irish visitors will discover a new perspective on the richness of Mexican children\u2019s toys and how they have enabled children to connect with their own culture. Whilst these objects may appear bizarre or even unintelligible to an Irish audience, the exhibition essentially reminds us of the joy which such toys can bring and the need to preserve the practice of children\u2019s games in modern society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this exhibition, the Mexican Embassy seeks to make an adult public aware of the cultural significance of these objects whilst also encouraging us to immerse ourselves in the nostalgia of our childhood toys that we so valued as children. By way of a series of interviews found on the Embassy\u2019s website, we learn about the creation of these children\u2019s toys by Mexican craftspeople and their enduring popularity amongst children and nostalgic adults. Whilst we are lacking an indigenous culture of crafting children\u2019s toys here in Ireland, the exhibition underlines the general ability of toys to free us from our daily existence as children and transport us to a world that only we can control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Embassy\u2019s website, this exhibition plans to \u2018reveal Mexico through play and children\u2019s games\u2019. In this sense, what is fascinating about the exhibition is that it encourage sus to visualise the worlds that children create with traditional toys and how they transform figurines, dolls, and other objects into their own characters. In one display, we discover a series of figurines, corresponding to representative figures within Mexican rural society. Unlike the knitted figurines that Irish children play with, available mostly through the large commercial toy stores, these characters fascinate the visitor through their intricate design and their clear connection to the society in which they are bought and sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As well as showing us several other fascinating objects, such as the Mexican maracas <\/em>and pi\u00f1atas<\/em>, the exhibition also teaches us about the use of Mexican \u2018lucha libre\u2019 masks and how important these costumes are in traditional children\u2019s games. In the Irish case, we can all remember having dressed up as our favourite action film character and how we enjoyed assuming the personalities of these heroes. Just as Irish children continue dressing up as their favourite action characters, the presence of these traditional masks reminds us of the common desire of all children to transport themselves to other worlds in which they can emulate these heroic characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout this exhibition, we are given the chance to discover the variety of toys that have characterised Mexican children\u2019s games over the course of many years. Due to the variety of toys showcased in this exhibition, we acquire an understanding of the culture of craftsmanship underpinning the creation of these objects and their clear connection to Mexican society. Above all, the real success of this exhibition lies in its reminder of the traditional role of toys and their ability to connect us to the distant world of childhood during our adult lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Text by Philip McGuinness<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exposici\u00f3n de juguetes tradicionales del Museo La Esquina en la Embajada de M\u00e9xico en Irlanda Hasta el 18 de junio de 2021, la Embajada de M\u00e9xico en Irlanda nos invita a disfrutar de su nueva exposici\u00f3n, organizada junto con el Museo La Esquina, sobre los juguetes tradicionales mexicanos. 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