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Quito Ecuador Photo Gallery - Oswaldo Guayasamin Modern Art, including Capilla del Hombre and Museo Guayasamin

In August 2007 we traveled to Quito, Ecuador, Cotopaxi and Chimborazo, and the Galapagos Islands

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-01 Capilla del Hombre View Of Quito We arrived at Guayasamin’s Capilla del Hombre a few minutes before it opened, and had a wonderful view of Quito.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-01 Capilla del Hombre View Of Quito

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-02 Capilla del Hombre Outside When Ecuador's most famous contemporary artist Oswaldo Guayasamin (1919-1999) died, he was building Capilla del Hombre (Chapel of Man), a chapel dedicated to humanity and one of the most important works of art in South America. The two-storied gallery is a memorial to the suffering of the oppressed and victims of war and torture, and a celebration of Latin American identity and the positive aspects of human nature.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-02 Capilla del Hombre Outside

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-03 Capilla del Hombre Family Sculpture Outside Outside the entrance of Guayasamin’s Capilla del Hombre is a statue of a mother, father and child, reminding me a little of Salvador Dali.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-03 Capilla del Hombre Family Sculpture Outside

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-04 Capilla del Hombre Four Horses Tearing Apart a Human When they were excavating the ground at Guayasamin’s Capilla del Hombre, they came across some pre-Incan tombs and these four horses tearing apart the human in the middle.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-04 Capilla del Hombre Four Horses Tearing Apart a Human

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-05 Capilla del Hombre Rostros de America Paintings To the left of the main entrance are a series of colourful paintings called Rostros de America (1997-9)

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-05 Capilla del Hombre Rostros de America Paintings

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-06 Capilla del Hombre Rostros de America Painting Here is a close up of one of a series of colourful paintings called Rostros de America (1997-9) at Guayasamin’s Capilla del Hombre.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-06 Capilla del Hombre Rostros de America Painting

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-07 Capilla del Hombre Rostros de America Painting Here is a close up of one of a series of colourful paintings called Rostros de America (1997-9) at Guayasamin’s Capilla del Hombre.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-07 Capilla del Hombre Rostros de America Painting

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-08 Capilla del Hombre Peter Admires El Mestizaje Peter admires Guayasamin’s painting El Mestizaje (1996) at the Capilla del Hombre.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-08 Capilla del Hombre Peter Admires El Mestizaje

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-09 Capilla del Hombre Homenaje a lod Disenos de Joyrs de Guayasamin In the stairs to the lower level is a large hanging sculpture Homenaje a lod Disenos de Joyrs de Guayasamin (2002).

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-09 Capilla del Hombre Homenaje a lod Disenos de Joyrs de Guayasamin

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-10 Capilla del Hombre La Famalia As you enter the lower level, there is a sculpture called La Familia (1971), reflected nicely in water.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-10 Capilla del Hombre La Famalia

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-11 Capilla del Hombre El Condor y el Toro and Eternal Flame In the lower level of Guayasamin’s Capilla del Hombre is the large mural El Condor y el Toro (the Bull and the Condor). During a festival, a condor was tied to the bull’s neck to fight the bull. If the condor won, it meant a good harvest. In front of the huge painting an eternal flame flickers for the cause of human rights.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-11 Capilla del Hombre El Condor y el Toro and Eternal Flame

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-12 Capilla del Hombre Madre y Nino From Oswaldo Guayasamín’s series La Edad de la Ternura (The Ages of Tenderness), here is Madre y Nino (1986), a wonderful portrait of a young Guyasamin and his mother.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-12 Capilla del Hombre Madre y Nino

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-13 Capilla del Hombre Lagrimas de Sangre From his Edad de la Ira (Age of Wrath / Anger) series Lagrimas de Sangre (1973, Tears of Blood) is an aptly named scary black and white painting set off with red tears. It was painted for the suffering of the people like Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda, and Victor Jara killed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-13 Capilla del Hombre Lagrimas de Sangre

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-14 Capilla del Hombre In the lower level of the Capilla del Hombre is a large box-like structure with a red U-shape on top.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-14 Capilla del Hombre

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-15 Capilla del Hombre Mujer Pajaro Mujer pajaro (Bird Woman) is a huge lithograph in the lower level of the Capilla del Hombre.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-15 Capilla del Hombre Mujer Pajaro

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-16 Capilla del Hombre View Of Quito There are great views of Quito from Guayasamin’s Capilla del Hombre.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-16 Capilla del Hombre View Of Quito

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-17 Capilla del Hombre View Of Quito There are great views of Quito from Guayasamin’s Capilla del Hombre.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 1-17 Capilla del Hombre View Of Quito

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-01 Bellavista Houses We walked down the hill for 10 minutes to Museo Guayasamin, passing nicely painted houses in Bellavista.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-01 Bellavista Houses

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-02 Museo Guayasamin Entrance Sculpture Housed in his former home, the Museo Guayasamin has the most complete collection of Oswaldo Guayasamin (1919-1999), Ecuador's most famous contemporary artist.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-02 Museo Guayasamin Entrance Sculpture

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-03 Museo Guayasamin Family Sculpture In the grounds of Museo Guayasamin is a sculpture called La Familia.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-03 Museo Guayasamin Family Sculpture

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-04 Museo Guayasamin Outside Guayasamín lived at a workshop and beautiful museum in the residential neighborhood of Bellavista, befriending everyone from the Rockefellers to Fidel Castro during his long career. See

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-04 Museo Guayasamin Outside

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-05 Museo Guayasamin El Guitarrista Oswaldo Guayasamín’s El Guitarrista (The Guitarist, 1977) shows a nude guitar player, reminding me of Picasso’s The Old Guitarist in Chicago.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-05 Museo Guayasamin El Guitarrista

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-06 Museo Guayasamin El Violinista Oswaldo Guayasamín’s El Violinista (1966, The Violinist) is a large 184 x 69 cm painting of eh, a violinist.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-06 Museo Guayasamin El Violinista

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-07 Museo Guayasamin Meditacion I and II Here are Oswaldo Guayasamín’s paintings called Meditacion I and II (1993, Meditation).

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-07 Museo Guayasamin Meditacion I and II

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-08 Museo Guayasamin Painting, Fathers Head, Los Amantes, and Nina Llorando There are three paintings next to Oswaldo Guayasamín’s sculpture of the father’s head from La Familia at the Museo Guayasamin. The middle painting is Los amantes (1989, The Lovers), and the one on the right is Nina Llorando (1994, Boy Crying)

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-08 Museo Guayasamin Painting, Fathers Head, Los Amantes, and Nina Llorando

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-09 Museo Guayasamin Reunion en El Pentegono III and IV Oswaldo Guayasamín’s great triumph is his disturbing Edad de la Ira (Age of Wrath / Anger) series, where massive canvases tower over you with repetitive images of giant clenched hands, faces screaming in agony, skeletal figures that look utterly defeated and bodies in positions of torture. The Reunion en El Pentegono (1970, Meeting at the Pentagon) is a set of five large 179cm x 179cm canvases, with III and IV shown here

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-09 Museo Guayasamin Reunion en El Pentegono III and IV

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-10 Museo Guayasamin Los Torturados From Oswaldo Guayasamín’s Edad de la ira (Age of Wrath) series, Los Torturados (1976-77, The Tortured) is a set of three canvases with a total size of 200xm x 300cm.

Ecuador Quito Guayasamin 2-10 Museo Guayasamin Los Torturados


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