Renata Avila · January, 2012

Latest posts by Renata Avila from January, 2012

El Salvador: Destruction of Cathedral Mural Angers Citizens

  10 January 2012

In 1997, Fernando Llort created the mural 'Harmony of my People' to adorn the front of San Salvador’s Cathedral. During the first week of 2012 the mural was destroyed by Catholic authorities without consultation. Netizens debate the meaning of this for the Salvadoran art world.