Sunday 14 September 2008

El Capilla del Hombre - The Chapel of Man.


This place was a pleasant surprise today. One of those placews that make you go 'oh wow' when you weren't expecting it. It is a chapel / art gallery created by Ecuadorian painter Oswald Guayasamin. Unbeknown to me, a portrait of Fidel Castro that I was admiring while waiting at the Cuban Embassy for a visa yesterday was also done by Guayasamin.

The quote above says something along the lines of "I cried because I had no shoes but then I met a boy with no feet."


Freaky shot of the eternal flame.


Some of Guayasamin's paintings.



1 comment:

  1. I'm am continually amazed what happens when paint and imagination mix

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