The FIFA Football World Cup kicked off on Wednesday June 10th with host country Mexico dealing South Africa a 2-0 blow.
In anticipation of winning tournament opener, the local Mexican embassy assembled a small group of specially invited guests to commemorate the occasion.
As part of the occasion the embassy unveiled an art exhibition specifically designed to spotlight the 2026 World Cup.
The featured artist is Manuel Tenedor (Guadalajara, Jalisco, May 29, 1986) which is the pen name of Luis Manuel Pérez Martínez, a Mexican artist with a degree in Industrial Design from the University of Guadalajara. His artistic practice spans multiple graphic disciplines: drawing, illustration, painting, and design, as well as editorial, audiovisual, and photographic production. His work is rooted in the observation of everyday interactions between people and the objects that populate their world: trades and crafts, artifacts, behaviors, customs, and traditions.
Martinez has shown his work in Mexico, Madrid, New York, Berlin, and Amsterdam, and has led drawing workshops in Barcelona and the Netherlands. He was part of the group exhibition “Nopalera en el Corazón,” held at the Zócalo and organized by the Mexico City Ministry of Culture in January 2026.
He was invited by the Mexico City Ministry of Tourism to participate in the exhibition “Collective Memory of the FIFA™ World Cup — Mexico 70 and Mexico 86: The City That Never Stopped Playing,” which will be presented at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS) from June to July 2026.
The artwork is being displayed at the Mexican Embassy for the duration of the World Cup and is free for public viewing as it is affixed to the exterior window of the Embassy building at Vigie.