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Puente Tocinos, October 3, 2017.- The Ramón Gaya Museum, in collaboration with the Municipal Board of Puente Tocinos, inaugurates this afternoon an exhibition of the Murcia painter, internationally renowned, José Coll Sotomayor.
His work will be welcomed in the House Museum of the Bethlehem of this hamlet, since it was in her where he was born and lived the last years of his life.
Born in Puente Tocinos in 1940, Coll Sotomayor showed from a very young age his pictorial vocation, reason why to the 14 years he began his studies in the Real Society of Friends of Murcia, located at that time in the street Society.
However, in 1960 he settled in Mallorca, which at that time was a meeting place for a wide and restless cast of artists.
Mallorca was the land that inspired most of his work, although his frequent visits to Murcia gave rise to some collaborations, such as the 1984 Taurine Fair poster, the Week of the Orchard and the Sea of ​​Alcázares, the Brotherhood of the Christ of Remedy, among others.
Considered as one of the main exponents of Mediterranean art, his work was admired in multiple exhibitions that traveled throughout the Spanish geography, diverse European countries, America, Australia, Japan, and United Arab Emirates.
Fortunately, the Region gives its debt to one of its most universal painters by exposing for the first time his work in the hamlet of Puente Tocinos.
Considered as an impressionist and figurative painter, his works are either marine, Mediterranean landscapes, still lifes or portraits, are full of vitality, plasticity and energy.
In them it is perceived its remarkable capacity to capture ambient, chromatic and luminous sensations of the Mediterranean, expressed with an extraordinary sensibility and harmony.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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