Chapel of Man is located in Quito Ecuador, is a cultural architectural space, a complex of large-scale projects. This is a memorial to the man sent the image of Latin American pre-Columbian, the contemporary man.
In this form the song, pain, crying, anger, tenderness, protest, dreams, violence, fights, sacrifice and victory of the Latin American man who devotes Guayasamin this work.
The Chapel of Man is also a symbol. There are 15 thousand square meters of a project, conceived during 12 years, “the Chapel of Man”, three plants are completed in a dome with the cone-shaped and truncated, is a monument to American man. At that embutidas of cities in these 504 years of westernization.
Guayasamin, insatiable hands in each of the different spaces of the chapel, the times and historical subject will be symbolized by Wall: “They represent americas before the arrival of the Spaniards: Gods and their symbols, their cosmogony, its architecture, its music, dances, clothing, their animals and plants. Other murals will be on the discovery, and with greater emphasis on conquest, in which the company killed a million people in the country.
“The intention of Oswaldo Guayasamin, in any event, not only to portray the natural, which is why the Chapel and the murals that contain,” also speak of a million black, llegarón dede their homeland, Africa, were stored in ‘ deposits of beef and ebony before being sent to americas. “
Owaldo Guayasamin, Hands “Age of Wrath” between 1961 and 1990, tranquil paintings by 150 large format, in that same series are collections around a theme such as “Hands” (12 oils), “Gritos Women” ( 7 oils), “Delay” (11 oils), “Maul” (6 oils), “Finding in the Pentagon” (5 oils), “Rivers of Blood” (3 oils). This condemned the violence of man against man in this century.
