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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, today presented the exhibition 'keep coming' of the painter José María Murcia Falgas which will open this afternoon at 20:00 hours, President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel .
The exhibition of José María Falgas provides an extensive selection of his works, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, ranging from its beginnings to the present.
The exhibition, which consists of 82 works, will be open until June 1 at the Exhibition Hall of St. Stephen and it is manifested "getting Falgas expertise when confronted with the portrait, still life and landscape" according Ujaldón.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog divided into three parts.
The first 'Painting life' includes the biography of the works devoted to Murcia and portraits while the second, 'The initiatory trip', concerns the author's extensive travels.
Finally, the third part, 'The light of the desert "is dedicated to the Palestinian world, is about his travels to Egypt and Libya.
It also focuses on the warmth of the relationships that the artist has with the Muslim world and the attraction of the light of this changing landscape that is the desert.
José María Falgas
José María Falgas Rigal was born in 1929 in Murcia Murcia San Antonio Street and is considered a living art in Murcia over the past 60 years.
The outbreak of the Civil War forced him to leave school, this tragic circumstance which had a positive effect on him and he could spend more time drawing and observation, and thus acquired a practical knowledge that will forever mark their work.
His father, an enthusiastic art and music as well as an excellent artist, was a major influence on Falgas that after completing the bachelor was devoted to painting.
It should be noted that before he attended classes in Pedro Sánchez Economic Picazo, regularly visited the study of Antonio Gomez Cano, El Verdolay (Murcia), he received teachings and advice of Francisco Fuentes, and soon was in favor of three themes: the portrait (her first oil portrait dates from 1946), still life and landscape.
In 1948 he received a scholarship from Murcia City to study Fine Arts at the Academy of San Fernando and moved to Madrid where he resided until 1962, when returning to Murcia, exhibiting in Chys.
Since these early times Falgas activity is ceaseless in the field of portraiture, leaving an iconographic repertoire sufficient to illustrate the recent history of Murcia and personalities most important in Spain as King Don Juan Carlos I, Prince Felipe de Borbón or Carmen Conde, among others.
His works also capture the urban landscape and nature, and it was this need to see it takes to travel to Europe and America, and we will go North Africa with two important milestones: Egypt and Libya (the painter feel attracted to the Muslim world, founded in 1985 with a group of friends, the Cultural Association of Hispano-Arab Friendship 'Mursiya'-), and the impact of the desert, the Sahara, which devoted an exhibition in 1996.
José María Falgas has been honored with the appointment of a member of the Royal Academy of the Mediterranean (1955), the Bronze Medal of the Academy of Arts and Letters in Paris (1994), Medal of Honor of the Egyptian Institute for Islamic Studies (1995), the Golden Pepper (2001) and as a Full Member of the Knights of the Order of Civil Merit (2003) and Culture Laurel Press Association (2006), among others.
Source: CARM
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