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The exhibition, which opens tomorrow at 8:00 p.m., is a unique journey through the trajectory of the most Murcian of our sculptors, complete with pictorial and sculptural works from two of the most important art schools in the art world: Paris and Madrid;
many of which are exhibited for the first time in Murcia.
La Glorieta opens as an open cultural space with this exhibition that presents emblematic works of Campillo as 'Sagrada familia' and five new pieces by the maestro, among which 'Mujer Cordobesa' stands out
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Modernization, Urban Quality and Participation, José Guillén, the president of the Antonio Campillo Foundation, Clemente García, the owner of the collection, Juan Pérez Ferra, and the curator of the exhibition, Martín Páez, presented today the exhibition 'Antonio Campillo: collecting an era' that inaugurates the new cultural space of the City Council.
The exhibition, which opens tomorrow at 8:00 p.m., is a unique journey through the trajectory of the most Murcian of our sculptors, complete with pictorial and sculptural works from two of the most important art schools in the art world: Paris and Madrid;
many of which are exhibited for the first time in Murcia.
The exhibition includes a total of 52 works (27 sculptures and 25 paintings) and involves 33 artists: Antonio Campillo and other prestigious artists (19 from Paris and 13 from Madrid), whose work is exhibited in the most important museums of the world as the Metropolitan of New York, the Center Pompidou of Paris, the Museum of Montmartre, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Reina Sofia of Madrid, the Petit Palais of Geneva or the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
Art walk on the banks of the Segura
"This Christmas there are unique circumstances in Murcia.
On few occasions we will witness such concentration of works of art from different schools and backgrounds, so well articulated and with such a brilliant exhibition discourse, "said the mayor of Murcia.
"Thus, in addition to the new exhibition space that opens with the exhibition of Campillo and the painters and sculptors of the Schools of Paris and Madrid, we must add the exhibition 'Highlights' of the Fundación Telefónica, with works by Picasso, TÃ pies, Chillida , Juan Gris ..., conforming an authentic art walk on the banks of the Segura, from El Almudí to the Town Hall, "explained José Ballesta.
Five unpublished works by maestro Campillo
The exhibition of Campillo is composed of 20 sculptures -five of them unpublished in Murcia- covering a temporary period of 56 years, from 1952 to 2008. They will receive visitors outside La Glorieta their bronze works' Maternity 'and' Venus cycling'.
Once inside, the works of the Murcia sculptor are divided into two rooms.
The first one hosts the theme 'Antonio Campillo and Christmas', with works such as the emblematic 'Sagrada familia' in wood, 'Angelote', 'San José' or 'Virgen de la Anunciación'.
The second includes works in wood such as 'Woman in the bathroom' or 'La ciclista', in bronze as 'A coscaletas' or 'Mujer sentada', or in plaster, 'Mujer cordobesa'.
The third room of the exhibition hosts 'Two schools in Murcia collections: Paris and Madrid', with works by painters and sculptors from these two cities that have been a magnet for artists.
The exhibition allows us to contemplate a wide variety of artists who in almost all of them have never been exhibited in Murcia and who are quite unknown in Spain, despite being highly valued outside of our country.
The School of Paris
Through the artists present in the exhibition we can make an artistic journey from Impressionism to the interwar stage.
In the exhibition we find artists in the orbit of impressionism as Frank Boggs with "Rue de Dieppe", from Expressionism as Pierre Dumont with "Rue de l'Epicerie à Rouen '", or Maurice Louvrier with "Rouen, the Place Saint-Hilaire" .
Singularly outstanding is the selection of Spanish artists of the School of Paris in which highlights the Murcian Pedro Flores, who went to the City of Light initially pensioned by the Murcia Provincial together with Luis Garay and Ramón Gaya, a scholarship by the Murcia City Council.
In Paris he develops his own style influenced by Expressionism and Phovism.
In the exhibition we see him represented with two works from the early 40's of a high level, "Maja y Torero" and a "Bodegón".
Another highlight of the room is the presence of two Jewish artists from the Paris school.
This is the case of one of the two artists present at the exhibition the Polish Nathan Grunsweigh with "Une rue", who was deported and murdered by the Nazis.
The other artist present in the sample of Jewish origin is Mané-Katz, painter and sculptor, friend of Modigliani and Picasso, with the work "Violonchelista".
School of Madrid
Among the sculptors of the Madrid section we found a very significant nucleus of artists, some of whom maintained friendly relations with Antonio Campillo.
There are two Murcian sculptors present in this section, José Planes, with "Nude" in marble;
and Francisco Toledo, Antonio Campillo's learning partner in the workshop of Juan González Moreno and of which a work from his beginnings is shown, "Retired after a battle".
Madrid painting is represented by seven painters: Joaquín Vaquero Palacios with "Castilla", Demetrio Salgado with his "Blue Woman", Juan Guillermo with his "Scarecrow" one of the most outstanding works of the artist, Luis García Ochoa with "Altos Hornos of Vizcaya ", Agustín Redondela with" Amanecer ", Álvaro Delgado with his" Harlequin "and Gregorio del Olmo with his magnificent" Self-portrait ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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