PATRICIO ROBLES GIL

THE 9TH WORLD WILDERNESS CONGRESS
Painted Bodies, "Origins, Art & Nature"
The event took place the 12 of November 2009 in the "Hacienda Tekit de Regil" in Merida. Where the narrow relationship of the natural world with its artistic representations was celebrated and the ancient craft of decorating the human body was presented in different artistic visions.

This ancestral practice is loaded with history and meanings around the world. Decorated skin exhibits man's relationship with society in its many manifestations and times, and defines specific cultures. We find examples of it in customs, rites or ceremonies that we celebrate from birth to death. There are body ornaments that express many purposes: to woo and bind couples, for symbolic dances, for harvest and fertilization of mother earth and mother women, for war and peace, up until current and technological artistic expressions.

Therefore, prominent and enthusiastic plastic artists, photographers and models gathered to create works of art that claim for the conservation of wild life and lands, with creativity and energy. The images of these ephemeral pieces were caught in time through the lens of the participating photographers and signed by the authors involved to be auctioned that same night. Funds raised were for supporting the cause of wildlife conservation.

Plastic artists: Álvaro Castillo, Eustaquio Cortina, Sofía Creel, Alfredo Gavaldón Arbide, Fernando González Gortázar, Emma Hack, Melva Medina, Beatriz Padilla, Carmen Parra, Yolanda Paulsen, Georgina Quintana, María Sada, Beatriz Simon Havaux, Roberto Turnbull, Abel Vázquez, Patricio Robles Gil.
Photographers: Jack Dykinga, Thomas D Mangelsen, Nick Nichols, Steve Maka, Patricio Robles Gil, Xi Zhinong, Ignacio Urquiza.
Models: Alonso Aguilar, Ivan Alvarez, Idalia Arvizu , Albertina Contreras, Monserrat De Leon, Patricia Garfias, Jimena Garcia Turriza, Graciela Garcia Turriza, Mirel García, Edgar Israel Gonzalez Sulu, Reyna Guadalupe Duarte Valencia,Martha Itzel Espinosa Trejo, Elias Falla, Izela Zeron Neyra.
Coordination: Mónica del Villar K and Mitsy Ferrant.
Multimedia: Patricio Robles Gil and Tania Escobar