Addy Bacelis Closes 10-Year Art Cycle with ‘GraCtitud’ Exhibition

Cozumel, Mexico — With a mix of emotion, serenity, and gratitude, artist Addy Bacelis inaugurated her tenth and final annual exhibition on Saturday night at the Museo de la Isla, managed by the Cozumel Parks and Museums Foundation (FPMC). “GraCtitud” marks the conclusion of a creative cycle that began in 2016, when the artist set out to hold an exhibition each year. Ten years later, Bacelis achieves her goal with a show that synthesizes the essence of her work: color, nature, introspection, and love for life.

“GraCtitud is the attitude of filling one’s soul with gratitude and appreciation for every experience lived,” the artist expressed during the inauguration. Moved by having reached the goal she set a decade ago, she affirmed that she concludes this cycle “with the serenity of one who has painted their own horizon.” Her work, which has reached five continents, once again expresses in this exhibition the profound gratitude she feels toward life, toward Cozumel — her inexhaustible source of inspiration — and toward all the people who have recognized the beauty of her painting. “I feel in love, and when one is in love, everything becomes light, everything becomes peace,” she said.

The exhibition includes large-format paintings, as well as intervened doors, windows, tables, chairs, pots, and pans. One of the most special elements is the recreation of the artist’s studio: an intimate corner that allows the public to glimpse her creative process through her brushes, aprons, materials, and personal atmosphere.

During the event, the director of the Museo de la Isla, Isela Carrillo Cupul, accompanied by accountant Noemí Tun, FPMC advisor Alejandro Queb Franco, and museographer Satoko Kitamura, presented the artist with a recognition on behalf of the institution’s general director, Juanita Alonso Marrufo.

Self-taught and a dreamer, Addy Bacelis has built an artistic universe where nature, vibrant colors, and emotional sensitivity coexist. Her annual exhibitions reflect an aesthetic and spiritual evolution that turned each December into a new chapter of her trajectory. With “GraCtitud,” Addy Bacelis closes a cycle but opens the certainty that her art will continue illuminating the paths of those who find in color a refuge and a reason to be grateful.

In this way, the FPMC, through the Museo de la Isla, keeps its doors open for artists who wish to share their work and continues bringing art closer to the community, as established by the New Agreement for the Well-being and Development of Quintana Roo promoted by Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa.