GIFT SHOP & ART GALLERY - Arte y Artesanias

In our gallery and shop “Arte y Artesanías” you can find the original work of Ecuadorian and foreign artists such as Whitman Gualsaqui, Catasse, Gustavo Velasco, Gustavo Mosquera and Paula Ordoñez.

Plus, we offer exclusive products like Zuleta embroideries, Pauta candle sticks, indigenous necklaces either golden or white shell, hand-made glasses and embroidered T-shirts.

Our objective is to promote the best of Ecuador and give artists and artisans the opportunity to show their work in a national and international level.

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Zuleta Embroidery; luxury table cloths, hand made by a group of 120 women in northern Ecuador, they can be machine washed without colors fadding.

Pauta Candlesticks; An artisan located in the southern region of Ecuador, the work is made by hand with forged iron. Items include: candle sticks, incense holders, bells, ash-trays, napkin holders, among others.

Golden Indigenous Necklaces; Hand made with blown glass and a gold coat, some necklaces vary in materials.

Mother-of-pearl Necklaces; Combined with silver and coral.

Hand-Made Glasses; Made with recycled glass.

Hand-Made Embroidered T-Shirts; Made by a group of 120 women in the south region of Ecuador.

GUSTAVO VELASCO

Ecuadorian painter. He has worked during several years with Gonzalo Endara Crow in the early nineties.

Today, Velasco is one of the proponent of the naïve style of fantastic realism, which corresponds in Latin American visual art realism in literature and constitutes a typically Latin American expression of the paradoxes of everyday reality.

In his studies of the life of the mestizo population of the Andean World, Gustavo Velasco chooses themes based on people’s daily lifes, depicting, for example, horses pulling bells up the sides of mountains and animals and birds peering out from the upper floors of picturesque provincial houses, in images bordering on magic and the bizarre.

In his painting, Velasco is working with the technique of acrylic.

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GUSTAVO MOSQUERA

Ecuadorian painter and sculptor born in 1962. Mosquera is the only Ecuadorian painter who is a specialist in pointillism, a technique of impressionist painting, developed by Seurat to give painting greater luminosity, in which pigment is applied in small spots of various pure colours which are blended by the spectator´s eye.

For Mosquera, the colourful spots are the symbolof the fruits and grapes that can be found in abundance in his homeland. In his painting Mosquera is working in acrylic.
Mosquera has been invited by several art galleries around the world (Switzerland, USA, Japan for example)

(The only Ecuadorian painter who handles pointillism, in his paintings one can find grapes, Tungurahua volcano, the Amazon and women sensuality)

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CATASSE

Carlos Tapia Sepúlveda, paintor under the pseudonym of Catasse. Born in Santiago on October 25, 1944.

As a child he was interested in painting, which is why he is considered a self-didactic artist. He attended the School of Applied Arts in Santiago.

In 1969 he came to Ecuador where he discovered the work of Osvaldo Guayasamín and Enrique Tabará, who had worked with Tapies in Spain.