Light ≅ Matter (Light)

This exhibition represents the first segment of the Light ≅ Matter project. This project, which gathers a selection of works belonging to our museum, distances itself from the conventional way in which the collections are exhibited, the gathering of works by schools and artistic groups from chronological criteria. In contrast, Light ≅ Matter teaches us that there are infinite ways of approaching works of art, as well as any objects, or even the relevant events scattered throughout our lives. By: Agnaldo Farias

Light brings works from artists that lived in very distinct times, produced works that were different from each other but nonetheless had light as common denominator. A fascination that goes back to the painting of Da Vinci; to our ancestor who, with a drawing in a cave wall, made visible a scene or an animal. By: Agnaldo Farias

The sign of similar, not equal, of Light = Matter, inspired by Einstein's famous equation (E=mc2), points out that these terms are not opposites. Despite the intangible nature of light and the more or less emphatic embodiment of matter, both are intertwined. After all, light is born to our eyes as an exhalation of things, a kind of aroma, while the matter that constitutes things shines in the darkness when it is awakened by it. By: Agnaldo Farias

Guayasamín's work draws attention, subtly, to the dramas of humanity, especially to those of the Latin American people, whose face is suffering and hands twisted by violence, poverty, dictatorships and not always explicit forms of control. What he saw in his travels in Latin America was a tempered and shy personality that he portrayed as a expressionist in his paintings. Within this same perspective, he created a series called "Tenderness" between late 1980's and late 1990's, composed of several paintings of mothers and children. "Mother with Child" is a tribute to the mother of the artist and to all the mothers of the world.