Historic Rescue in Chillán: The Mural that Survived Oblivion and Censorship
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The artwork ‘Beginning and End’, created by Julio Escámez, was found under 12 layers of paint in the Chillán City Hall. The discovery recovers a piece marked by the artist's exile and the assassination of the mayor who inaugurated it.
The Citizen Almost fifty years of silence are about to break in the Municipality of Chillán. The pictorial piece Principle and end, created by the master Julio Escamez between 1970 and 1972, has finally begun its restoration after a complex technical intervention.The mural, which was inaugurated at its origin by President Salvador Allende, became a silent witness of history by being deliberately buried under more than a dozen layers of painting …
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