Capilla del Hombre
 Guayasamin
The
Capilla del Hombre located in Quito Ecuador is an architectonic
cultural space, a complex of great dimension. It is a memorial
referred to the Latin American man from the pre-columbian image, to
the contemporary man. In it shape the song, pain, weeping, wrath,
tenderness, protest, dreams, violence, fights, sacrifice, and victory
of the Latin American man to whom Guayasamin dedicates this work.
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The Chapel of the Man is also a symbol and in addition it is loaded of
them. They are 15 thousand square meters of a project, conceived
during 12 years, and that are inhaled the first day of the 2000 is
inaugurated.
"the chapel of the Man", three plants that end at a cupola with cone
form I truncate, is a monument to the American man. To the one of the
towns pressed in these 504 years of westernization.
 In each one of the different rooms of the chapel, the historical times
and subjects will be symbolized by murals: "they will represent what
was America before the arrival of the Spaniards: its Gods and symbols,
his cosmogonia, their architecture, its music, dances and dresses,
their animals and plants. |
Other murals will deal about the discovery,
and with greater emphasis of the conquest, company in which died
million natives."
The intention of Oswaldo Guayasamin, in any case, is not only to
portray the native, for that reason the Chapel and the murals that
will contain, "also talk about the million black that, started of
their native earth, Africa, were stored in ' deposits of meat of
ebano
before being sent to America."
 The Age of the Wrath. Oswaldo
Guayasamin
Hands "the Age of Wrath" between 1961 and 1990, composed by 150
pictures of great format, within that series are collections around
same a thematic one, like "the Hands" (12 oils), "Women Crying" (7
oils), "the Delay" (11 oils), "the Mutilated ones" (6 oils), "Meeting
in the Pentagon" (5 oils), "Rivers of Blood" (3 oils). It denounces
the violence of the man against the man in this century. |
