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Monumental church of San Juan de Dios hosts from Tuesday the exhibition "Sculptures for a nativity scene ', which brings together around fifty of figures created by the sculptor José Antonio Hernández Navarro from 1984 to the present for the crib de la Peña 'La Pava'.
The Minister of Culture and Spokesperson, Noelia Arroyo, the sculptor himself and several members of the Murcia rock visited Monday mounting the exhibition will be inaugurated on Tuesday, November 3, and will remain open until the 6th of December.
Noelia Arroyo recalled "belenística the rich tradition of the region in which the master Salzillo out, and that is still alive with workshops formed by generations of artisans and the work of sculptors like Hernandez Navarro, who, while highlighting as sculptor, It has an important work as belenista. Now, Murcia can admire her small sculptures differently from when they are integrated into the crib of 'La Pava' mode, paying more attention to the beauty and richness of detail parts. "
In total, Hernandez Navarro has made over the last 30 years 120 known figures for the Christmas crib every organizes 'La Pava'.
About fifty of them will be those that are exposed in several windows of San Juan de Dios, where an audiovisual will be showing visitors all these small works created by the sculptor.
This vast collection of sculptures, the author occasionally represented some members of the Peña 'La Pava' as well as personalities known in the region.
'Sculptures for crib' you can visit the church in San Juan de Dios de Murcia until next December 6.
Hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 to 13:30 and 17:00 to 20:00, and Sundays and holidays from 10:00 to 13:30 hours.
The sculptor
José Antonio Hernández Navarro (Los Ramos, Murcia, 1954) was drawn from his childhood drawing and modeling, and he always remembered painting, drawing or making shapes with mud from ditches.
Moved by this concern, he began to visit the workshops of Séiquer Elisa and Jose Sanchez Lozano.
In the workshop he met Séiquer belenista Moñino craftsman Pedro Serrano, who went to work at age 15 as modeler and sculptor.
At the time he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts.
As sculptor has made carvings for the entire region and to other cities in Spain.
In 1982, the Brotherhood of Forgiveness in Murcia chose his sketch for performing the step of Coronation of Thorns and since this work began to receive orders from other brotherhoods of Easter.
In 1984 he began modeling figures for the crib penalty 'La Pava', for which it has made a total of 120 small sculptures full of detail.
Today, Hernandez Navarro continues to bring some new piece every year this crib, which traditionally shown every Christmas in this space of the church of the Monumental San Juan de Dios.
It is a customs crib in which, in addition to familiar faces among his figures, the public can see landscapes of the garden, replicas of famous buildings and Murcia monuments, traditions of the region and even a recreation of the studio of the sculptor Francisco Salzillo.
Source: CARM
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