Restoration of Camilo Egas' Mural

This past July 13th, 2011, a restored Festival Ecuatoriano, a mural created in 1932 by Ecuadorian artist Camilo Egas (1889-1961) for Manhattan's The New School university, was presented to the public for the first time in ten years. Sylvia Rocciolo, curator of the New School art collection, was in charge of the presentation, and she also discussed the work of José Clemente Orozco and Thomas Hart Benton. Festival Ecuatoriano is one of Egas' best known works and it highlights, through the artist's radical social realism, some instances of mestizaje and an-American indigenism of the Ecuadorian people. Before being taken down, the mural was located across from Martha Graham's dance studio; it will return to the same spot on September 6th, 2011, in a large scale event with the participation of important guests. Egas¿ work is currently one of the 40 artworks presented under the title "(re)collection," an exhibition including art by Larry Bell, Peter Saul, and Richard Tuttle, among others.