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Presentation life-size bust of Murcia painter, donated by Anna Crespo, and 12 portraits captured by photographers Murcia.
Ballesta: "Anna Crespo, personal friend of the painter has captured with full fidelity his personality, which has resulted in a very real and Ramon Gaya almost moving"
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, accompanied by the Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, and the director of the Museum Ramon Gaya, Manolo Fernandez Delgado, today unveiled the bust of the Murcian artist Ramón Gaya, donated by the sculptress Anna Crespo Giner Museum, a work located at the foot of the spiral staircase, next to the main entrance, "that, starting today, will welcome visitors to the Museum."
The work has been presented within the activities of "Night and Museum Day ', an ambitious commitment to culture of proximity, open and participatory, which allow today until Saturday, art is breathed in every corner city, with over a hundred cultural activities, both in museums and in the streets of Murcia.
This is a sculpture in clay (terracotta), very realistic and full of detail, showing the figure of Murcian painter from the waist up, in the last stage of his life.
"Anna Crespo, personal friend of the painter has captured with full fidelity his personality, which has resulted in Ramón Gaya very real and almost moving, it seems gesturing with his hands, as if in the middle of a conversation with a absent interlocutor, "said the mayor.
The piece, natural size in 2002 and represents an important legacy for the Ramón Gaya Museum, which houses over 300 works of the painter born in El Huerto del Conde.
"Today we know how it was Murcia Gaya, however, this sculpture will bring your figure to fururas generations, hence the importance of their donation," said José Ballesta.
Much of the work of Anna Crespo are tributes and performances of classical and modern artists.
The astista tries with his creations delve into human nature with the expression of emotions, feelings and attitudes captured in moments of total introspection, as reflected by the bust of Gaya.
12 portraits
Simultaneously, was presented at the Museum exhibition of 12 portraits of Gaya, Murcia also donated by photographers.
The images have been installed along the spiral staircase and are the work of prominent photojournalists as Juan Ballester, Joaquín Clares, Chema Conesa, Marcial Guillén, Juan Leal, Enrique Martinez, Bueso, Juanchi Lopez, Angel Martinez Requiel, Juan Francisco Moreno, Paco Salinas, Isabel Verdejo and Vicente Vicens.
The Murcia 20s in a mural at street
Another activity which opens tomorrow, at 11.45, is donating the large mural of 3x26 meters that embodies the historical moment of Murcia of the 20s, and has been prepared by the Department of Administration Modernization, Urban Quality and Participation.
'The art of the 20s Murcia Ramón Gaya and his generation' combines the intellectual core of the Murcia of the second decade of the twentieth century, with figures like Jorge Guillen, Juan Guerrero Ruiz and Jose Ballester, with emblematic painters of the time as Ramón Gaya, Luis Garay, Pedro Flores, Joaquin Almela Costa, Victor Nicholas and English,
"Their goal is to beautify, through portraits and works of the Museum and the municipal heritage, the space between Santa Isabel and Santa Catalina inn, making it a prelude than your own Ramon Gaya" said Ballesta.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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