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"Pompeii" is the name of the exhibition of paintings room Almudí Columns Palace opens tomorrow, in which the great painter reveals the ruins of the old Roman city, reveling in the streets and mansions, courtyards, corridors and salons burned by the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD and restored in 1700 by a group of archaeologists led by Carlos III.
The artist is inspired by Pompeian calcined rubbings, which brings us as filtered by historical memory, difficult and terrible time, but always mystified by the material and color painting Pedro Cano.
The curator of the exhibition, José María Serrano Sastre explains that this is an example that breaks the traditional mold and has the peculiarity and originality of combining in one box two compositions: "At the top, 120x160cm oil paintings, courts and colonnades which provides immense depth to the work, below these, the human, shown in the charred remains of the inhabitants of Pompeii as a frieze bodies (other oils on canvas 40x160cm) in which is reflected the essence of that tragic story that is part of our classical heritage and the teacher has captured with his brushes wonderfully in a total of 14 frames. "
We also enjoy a hundred sketches in different sizes, set on a painted Pompeian red, so dazzling play of light and color is exercised wall.
Again, Pedro Cano impresses us with his paintings, denoting the period of maturity at which it is located and in which the domain of technical reaches unprecedented limits, surprising us with its sensitivity in the use of the palette.
Pedro Cano, birthplace Blanca, Murcia, began to paint in oil self-taught when he was only 10 years.
At 15, a chance meeting with the Valencian painter Amparo Benaches determine its artistic orientation.
After studying at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid continues his artistic career that has taken him to visit Rome, Italy, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt and Libya.
In 1972 he held his first solo exhibition at Gallery Zero Murcia.
From this, have been successive exposures in this Spanish region, one of the noteworthy in 2002 in the Palace of Almudí entitled Streams.
In 1971 Pedro Cano won the gold medal at the Biennial of Painting and Sculpture in Florence and a year later received the gold medal at the Florence Biennial of Graphic Arts.
In 2001 he was named academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Santa Maria Arrixaca of Murcia.
In 1997 he was made an honorary citizen of Anguillara town where the artist spends most of his time when living in Italy.
In the Vatican Museum you can visit "The Embrace", a picture that Pedro Cano gave John Paul II in 1980.
It is exposed along a 2 boxes Dalí.
The Vasari Corridor of the Uffizi gallery is exhibited from September 2013 Pedro Cano self-portrait self-portraits by other major artists like Chagall, Rubens or Velázquez.
Artist revered in his homeland, now delights us with a mature and serene piece that is captivating the Almudí Palace until 13 July.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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