Manuel Rendon exhibition takes four museums in Guayaquil

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On Wednesday at the Museum of Anthropology and Contemporary Art (MAAC) was inaugurated the exhibition that brings together 150 works, drawings, poems and photographs of Guayaquil renowned painter Manuel Rendón, who died in 1980.

The works of Rendon have not been exhibited in the country from a decade ago, reason why it was decided to mount the exhibition but this time giving this an “aggregate value”: the ability to ‘get inside the head of the painter,’ said Billy Soto, museographer responsible for the selection of the texts involved in the exhibition.

The research was led by Juan Castro y Velasquez and lists the most important episodes of the painter’s life, including his childhood in France, his relationship with his parents, his beginnings in painting, his first trips to the country and finally his transfer to Portugal, where he died.

Simultaneously, in three other museums of the city; The Nahim Isaias, the Presley Norton and the Historical Archive, related samples were inaugurated, in which the city of that time is portrayed, the genealogy of the painter, and the works of his closest friends.

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