The building, a white igloo standing in the dust, has a long ramp leading to its entrance, and another one coming out of its sides and circling a portion of it.
The kids loved splashing themselves in the reflective pool, and running on the ramps. The exhibition was well worth the effort.
There were a number of drawings from Roberto Burle Marx. He was a Brazilian landscape architect and a painter, whose designs made him famous over the world. He would have introduced modern landscape architecture to Brazil. The exhibition presented various of his sketches.
The other artist displayed, Oswaldo Guyasamin, was having a number of very impressive and dark paintings. Ecuadorian, he started exhibiting his work at a young age, and was recognized by his peers quickly as the best South American painter in 1957. Of native heritage, he was affected by the struggle of his people, and spent his life representing issues such as political oppression, racism, poverty and class divisions in several places in South America. He also admired the Cuban Revolution and Castro. The exhibition had several large paintings, a film and a number of documents, which all made me realize there is so much to learn about the history of this part of the world.
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