Exhibit “Poemas de la Noche” by Hugo González Ayala
Ayala was born in Guatemala City on July 1954. Art Studies: 1975-1980 National School of arts in Guatemala City. 1984-1989 Students art League in New York City.
He has shown individually in more than 35 occasions. He has taken part in numerous group shows including the University of San Carlos, Museo Ixchel, Museo de Arte Moderno, Juannio Auction, and The Rotary Club, etc.
Internationally he has represented Guatemala in the Festival of Arts in Cagnes Sur Mer, France, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, the Rodal Gallery in Guadalajara, Mexico, Dronninglud Kunts Center in Denmark, The Truism Fair in Madrid, Spain, Atlanta Georgia and Galeria OEA in Washington. In October 2001 he represented Guatemala at the II Festival of Spanish-American Culture in Moscow.
His Awards include several prizes at the National Hall of Watercolors, the Only Prize at the Arturo Martinez contest in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Contest of the Century at Cervecería Centro Americana and the Golden Glyph at the Bi-annual Festival of Arts Paiz. He taught art at The National School of Arts, Guatemala City.
For this exhibition, Ayala has worked on 15 oil paintings on canvas, mainly night scenes, from different places of Guatemala such as Antigua, Quetzaltenango, Sololá and some others from Totonicapán.
“Night scenes are more difficult to paint but at the same time, it becomes an advantage or an opportunity to be more creative in modifying the color palette. Through light, I seek for certain rhythms and movements.
There is a certain analogy between literature and painting and the poem is a way of expressing, what I want to share, a feeling or emotion in a simple way.” Says Ayala.
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