Latin America, Caribbean share beauty through art exhibition
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Updated: 2019-06-20 10:47
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“He goes very deep into our past and his artworks you see here are reflections of our archeology. His pieces are like discoveries from the past and in that past you can see African elements, American native elements, European elements, because Uruguay is a melting pot of these different civilizations,” the ambassador said.
Gustavo Fernandez, who used to be a student of archeology, has a curiosity in digging the Uruguayan history and trying to find the memories of his people. He assembles and combines everyday objects and archeological ones. Through his artworks, traces of the merging of different civilizations in Uruguay can be found.
