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Kobra's Etnias

Exploring Rio de Janeiro

By Rachel Tobias

August 20^th, 2016

etnias | ethnicities

In between work at the USA House and a handful of different Olympic events, I was fortunate to have bits of time here and there to explore some of the other beautiful sights that Rio has to offer. My favorite thing by far were Eduoardo Kobra’s massive new murals, painted along Boulevard Olimpica in honor of the 2016 Olympic Games. (You can watch the timelapse of them being painted here.) Entitled ‘Etnias’ or ‘Ethnicities’, this massive set of murals depicts an indigenous human face from the five continents of the five Olympic rings: The Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.