Ecuador: Amb. Davoli visiting Guayasamin house museum

(ANSA) - ROMA, 30 LUG - The Italian Ambassador to Ecuador, Giovanni Davoli, visited the Guayasamin House Museum in Quito. It was a special visit because he was accompanied by Verenice Guayasamin, daughter of the famous painter and president of the Foundation that bears his name. At the end of the visit, the ambassador congratulated the Foundation's team on having preserved an invaluable cultural heritage for the dissemination of Oswaldo Guayasamin's work.
    An Ecuadorian painter born in Quito in 1919 and died in Baltimore in 1999, Guayasamin was elected President of the House of Ecuadorian Culture in 1971. His works have been exhibited in major galleries around the world: Venezuela, France, Mexico, Cuba, Italy, Spain, USA, Brazil, Colombia, Soviet Union, China, among others. In 1976, he created the Guayasamín Foundation in Quito, to which he donated his work and art collections, as he conceived art as a heritage of the peoples. Guayasamín has been a personal friend of important personalities and has portrayed some of them, such as Fidel Castro and Raúl Castro, Francois and Danielle Mitterrand, Gabriel García Márquez, Rigoberta Menchú, King Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Caroline of Monaco.