{"id":6803,"date":"2019-08-08T07:21:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2019-08-15T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:31:08","slug":"ecuador-and-spain-introduce-guayasamin-in-london-as-one-of-the-great-artists-and-witnesses-of-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2019\/08\/08\/ecuador-and-spain-introduce-guayasamin-in-london-as-one-of-the-great-artists-and-witnesses-of-the-20th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador and Spain introduce Guayasam\u00edn in London as one of the great artists and witnesses of the 20th century"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Embassy of Ecuador and Instituto Cervantes celebrate, in London, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Ecuadorian painter and artist Oswaldo Guayasami\u0301n, with a conference by Goldsmith University art historian and artist Daniela Gala\u0301n and the dance anthropologist, dancer and actress Estefani\u0301a Solo\u0301rzano.<\/p>\n

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\u00abAs Ambassador of Ecuador in the United Kingdom, it is an honor to commemorate this month, at Instituto Cervantes in London, the centenary of the birth of the artist Oswaldo Guayasamin, a giant from Ecuador and America, whose work is known around the world, his plastic creations are moved by his aesthetic strength and the enduring message of eternal works,\u201d explains Jaime Alberto Marcha\u0301n Romero, Ambassador of Ecuador to the United Kingdom.
\nMarcha\u0301n Romero emphasizes that the Ecuadorian master dominated all the expressions of art: canvas, mural composition, sculpture and prints. Romero added that, in the intellectual field, Guayasami\u0301n played a decisive role in the struggle for his ideals of social justice. \u201cThrough his brush, he spoke for the oppressed of the world. His cry was immense and still resonates, angry and haughty, in museums, walls and squares, but, above all, in the hearts of men,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Ambassador believes that this event at Instituto Cervantes has a special significance, as it is an opportunity to make the work of the great Ecuadorian artist better known in this cosmopolitan country. It also renews in Instituto Cervantes, \u201cthe deep ties that unite Latin American countries through language, culture and art, through which we have enriched each other.\u201d
\n\u201cGuayasami\u0301n is an artist who seems to summarize the greatness and contradictions of Latin America. Beyond its plastic power, so characteristic and so linked to the traditions of the subcontinent, all Latin American themes are in it. And I say Hispanic Americans because few artists have made such a good bridge between America and Spain. For us it is a joy to open the doors to Guayasami\u0301n and Ecuador on their national day, \u201dsays the director of the Cervantes Institute in London, Ignacio Peyro\u0301.
\nIn Ecuador, when Estefani\u0301a Solo\u0301rzano began her theatre studies, she began to go to museums a lot and also approached Ecuadorian painting, dance and literature. It was at that time when she also rediscovered the work of Guayasami\u0301n and began to frequent the museum \u2018La chapel of man\u2019, in Quito, built by the artist in homage to the human being.<\/p>\n

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\nThe most intimate expres<\/strong>sion of the human being<\/strong>
\nGuayasami\u0301n was always surrounded by many artist friends (painters, musicians, writers, etc.) and Solo\u0301rzano was interested in knowing the history of that circle. \u201cThe focus on the eyes, hands and face always struck me. I see it as the way in which one gets to know another person through the eyes. Guayasamin offers us the most intimate expression of the human being in the eyes and hands, and that is where terror, love, tenderness and poetry are,\u201d she explains.
\nSolo\u0301rzano began her MA in Dance Anthropology two years ago, on an itinerary that took her to Norway, France, Hungary and finally to the United Kingdom last January. Currently, she develops a project based on memory and oblivion, for which she was inspired by one of Guayasami\u0301n’s works: \u201cAs long as I live forever, I remember you\u201d, which belongs to the series \u2018The age of tenderness\u2019.
\n\u00abThe skin outside, the skin inside\u00bb
\nSolo\u0301rzano identifies with Guayasami\u0301n and his idea of \u00abThe skin outside, the skin inside\u00bb. In the first one, Guayasami\u0301n refers to his artistic work in the time he has lived; while, in the second term, he encompasses all the experiences of a child and what he lived with his family, facts that moved him all his life.
\nGuayasami\u0301n describes that he painted \u2018The Age of Wrath\u2019 as if he were screaming desperately, adding to all those screams that express the humiliation and anguish of the horror events experienced by Humanity in the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

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The construction of a world art scene<\/strong>
\nIn the case of historian Daniela Gala\u0301n, her talk revolves around the importance of the artist in the context of the history of Latin American art and its impact on the construction of the world art scene. Anger will be the starting point to examine how Guayasami\u0301n and other artists approach the indescribable, situations of pain, trauma and violence, without falling into sensationalism.
\n\u00abIn the paintings of Guayasami\u0301n you can see not only the pain of the victims, but also the frustration of living in certain historical moments and having lived so much pain, such as the Holocaust, the Spanish Civil War or the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki\u00bb, explains Galan, for whom Guayasami\u0301n is indispensable in the history of Latin American art. He also drew attention to the rights of the indigenous, with his mixture of indigenous and mestizo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Embassy of Ecuador and Instituto Cervantes celebrate, in London, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Ecuadorian painter and artist Oswaldo Guayasami\u0301n, with a conference by Goldsmith University art historian and artist Daniela Gala\u0301n and the dance anthropologist, dancer and actress Estefani\u0301a Solo\u0301rzano. \u00abAs Ambassador of Ecuador in the United Kingdom, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[584,581,605],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}