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A plaque on the side of the City Museum recalls the work of this artist who "fled the easy way to get ahead of their time, becoming one of the mythical names of art Murcia," said the mayor.
She was the first woman to win the Francisco Salzillo Sculpture Award, graduated in Murcia, Valencia, Madrid and Paris, and participated in the Universal Exhibition in Seville.
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, accompanied by members of the Municipal Corporation discovered today outside the City Museum the plaque in honor of the sculptor Elisa Séiquer Gutiérrez, an act with which Murcia pays tribute to one of the most Great that has given the municipality and in which the sister of the honoree, Elvira Séiquer, was present.
She was the first woman to win the Francisco Salzillo sculpture award and the only Murcia artist selected to participate in the 1992 Seville Universal Exposition. She was born in 1945 in the capital and died in 1996 at the age of 50.
He began his studies in the School of Arts and Trades of the city, although soon it moved to Valencia and Madrid to continue its formation.
Later also traveled to Paris, where it extended its artistic knowledge in the workshop of Etienne-Martin.
"Elisa was an artist with strong principles and convictions, and a vision of art, which found in the human figure its main means of expression.
Her nonconformity and spirit of renewal led her to the constant search for excellence, fleeing the easy way to get ahead of her time and breathe fresh air into the artistic panorama of Murcia, "said the mayor, adding that" Elisa is part of those mythical names Of the Murcian art ".
The homage, which took place in the square that bears the name of the artist, is part of the International Women's Day program organized by the Council of Social Rights.
A life for and for art
One of his first exhibitions realized in 1963 in the old House of the Culture (current Archaeological Museum).
He formed the artistic group Aunar with the painters José María Párraga (author of the text inscribed on the plate that has been discovered today), Manuel Avellaneda and Aurelio Pérez Martínez, and the sculptors Francisco Toledo Sánchez, José Toledo Sánchez and José Hernández Cano.
She also taught Secondary School, a period during which she toured the Region: from Yecla and Mula through Murcia and Las Torres de Cotillas.
One of his works, 'Juego de muchachos', can be seen in the garden of the Three Cups, in the capital neighborhood of La Fleet.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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