National Art Gallery will exhibit a mural for peace

Published at: 28/01/2026 10:58 AM

The National Art Gallery (GAN) produces a mural on its external wall, located between Bolivar Avenue and Mexico Avenue, by visual artists Paolo Massimo Consoni Rosso and Miguel Guerra, who conceived it in the reinterpretation of “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso, and the pictorial work of the Venezuelan teacher, Elsa Morales, as a high flag in the face of the attacks perpetrated against the Nation, the past January 3rd.

This was announced by the general director of the GAN, Clemente Martínez, who said that this artistic exhibition serves as a manifesto against the aggression that the United States government has been exercising against Venezuela, stressing that this center of Caracas art joins the call for peace and the defense of the independence and self-determination of the nation.

“We are here in the middle of Bolívar Avenue, in the National Art Gallery, making a beautiful mural that has to do with the events that occurred this January 3rd. The visual artists Paolo Consoni and Miguel Guerra are performing an interpretation of the work of Elsa Morales and “El Guernica” by Pablo Picasso,” he explained.

For his part, the plastic artist and muralist, Miguel Guerra, was pleased to be part of this movement, which seeks to raise his voice against the bombings of which Venezuela was subject, in the early morning of Saturday, January 3.

“We find ourselves on the walls of the National Art Gallery, expressing ourselves through art, through everything that has happened in our country, of that criminal bombing that took place on January 3, because art is precisely universal and brings us together, no matter where we are; in this case, we take Picasso's “El Guernica” as a basis for expressing ourselves about that fateful bombing, bringing it up and drawing that parallel between that brutality American who had to live here also in Venezuelan territory,” he said.

He also announced that, in the coming days, once the muralist work is completed, details will be announced of the date and the opening ceremony of this piece, inspired by the iconic works of Elsa Moreno and Pablo Picasso, as exponents of art and the manifestation of peace through their artistic works.

MINCULTURA/Mazo News Team