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"NICOLAS
GUILLEN" SHOWROOM
The first oil canvases painted by Carlos Páez Vilaró on the
urguayan "candombe" are exhibited in this room. They
were performed in the 50’s
when he lived in the "Mediomundo" tenement housing
at Palermo neighbourhood, Montevideo.
The masterpieces of the Museum are shown in this area.
Amongst them you will be able to appreciate the original
ceramics that Pablo Picasso
gave to Carlos Páez Vilaró when they met in the south of
France in 1957.
Souvenirs collected by the Artist during his trips to the
African continent such as masks, lances and fetiches are kept
in a large glass cabinet.
 Every
year the Artist together with his old drum goes down to
Montevideo city to celebrate "Las Llamadas" (The
Callings - Music and dance
ceremony), embracing the people with the sound of the different
battling drums and with flags where the black
people use to meet in the old part of the city giving testimony
and refreshing the memory of the town people on the legacy
of the music and dances left by their ancestors.
Tiles
collection made by Carlos Páez Vilaró.
The "Friendship
Corner" shows the exhibition of the photographs
that the Museum has prepared remembering the different personalities
that have visited Casapueblo, or that Carlos Páez Vilaró has
met during his life time.
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Ernesto
"Che" Guevara |
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| Henry
Ford |
Niemayer |
Omar
Shariff |
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| Pablo
Picasso |
Pelé |
Placido
Domingo |
There
is also a panel of information in this sector, with notes by
journalists published worldwide, since 1950 up to the present,
recording the Artist’s course of development.
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