Artist Oswaldo Guayasamín
Quito, Ecuador, 6 July 1919
Graduates from Painter and Sculptor in the School of Fine Arts in Quito. He held his first exhibition when he was 23, in 1942. He received in his youth all National Awards and was the recipient in 1952, at age 33, the Grand Prix of the Biennial of Spain and later the Grand Prix of the Biennial of Sao Paulo. died on March 10, 1999, to 79 years. His recent exhibitions were personally inaugurated the Luxembourg Palace Museum and the Museum Paris Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires, in 1995. Until shortly before his death he was working on his masterpiece, called "The Chapel of Man". He has exhibited in museums in all the capitals of America, and many countries in Europe, as in Leningrad (L'Ermitage), Moscow, Prague, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Warsaw. carried out 180 solo exhibitions and his production was fruitful in paintings, murals, sculptures and monuments. Has murals in Quito (Government and Legislative Palaces, Universidad Central, Provincial Council), Madrid (Airport of Barajas), Paris (UNESCO Headquarters); Sao Paulo (Latin American Parliament). Its monuments include "A Young Homeland" (Guayaquil, Ecuador), "the resistance" (Rumiñahui) in Quito. His work humanist, identified as expressionist, reflects the pain and misery that supports most of mankind and denounces violence that has lived humans in this mounstruoso twentieth century marked by world wars, civil wars, the genocide, concentration camps, dictatorships, torture. Guayasamín was a personal friend of the leading intellectuals and statesmen of the progressive world, and has portrayed some of them, like Fidel and Raul Castro, Francois and Danielle Mitterrand, Gabriel García Márquez, Rigoberta Menchú, among others. Officers received several decorations and honorary doctorates from universities in America and Europe.
