Memoryan exhibition of works by Ecuadorian artists offers a journey through the colors and textures captured by local hands in paintings exhibited in different samples in the French allianceQuito, for the last 69 years.
The exhibition Memory of Ecuadorian art in the Alliance Française collection includes works by artists such as Miguel Betancourt, Nelson Roman, and Nixon Cordovainformed this Saturday that institution.
The art exhibition, inaugurated this week, represents a journey through a collection made possible thanks to the contribution of Enrique Tábara, Marcelo Aguirre, Milton Barragán, Rommy Struve, Nancy Vizcaíno, Doina Vieru, Rosy Revelo, Eda Muñoz, Jaime Zapata, Francisco Proaño, Paulina Baca, Gabriel García, Pablo Gamboa and Omar Pueblaamong others.
Participants and curators of the exhibition, Nelson Román and Nixon Córdova, selected works that, over time, have left their mark in the Galleries of the French Alliance of Quito, currently forming a chronological collection that refers to art as a reflection of human culture.
Involved in art for more than four decades, Roman presents his work The forgotten from 1971, created with oil and ink on paper. Her work shows people who suffer from mental illness, as it is a representation of faces and looks, which arose from a visit to the San Lázaro Psychiatric Hospital.
The wall and the moonanother of the exhibited works, is creation of the year 2000 by Miguel Betancourtwho applied the acrylic and oil painting technique on various types of hemp, one in the background and the other superimposed to highlight the nature of the fabric.
This work was made after having participated in an exhibition in Lima and having visited the Inca ruins, an experience that also helped to create later works such as pictorial artsequence presented in 2005, characterized by dripping color.
In the exhibition, which will run until the end of this month, two works by Rosy Revelo, plastic and visual artist who in her works Finite Infinite and Vegetable Skin II it shapes symbols that, from the feminine identity, are associated with various primordial themes that it energetically embraces: the body, memory and nature.
“Each author who is part of Memoryhas been fundamental in this journey of 69 years in which his art has remained engraved in the mind” of the visitors to the galleries, assures the French Alliance that, in 1962 presented for the first time an exhibition of drawings by Oswaldo Viteri and Mario Müller
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Source: Eluniverso
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