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Stephen Campbell, Vicente Ruiz, Luis Manuel Pastor, Manuel Manolo Belz and Barnuevo are the names of five artists from Murcia, with distinct styles of painting have in common have shared the same spatial and temporal context and had to break-off shapes a city in a difficult time in recent years from the end of autarky in the early seventies.
The exhibition to be presented makes a tour of the latest work of this group of artists in the maturity of his paintings, works of immediate creation, exhibition unit test generated by the painters themselves, as a result of his long career.
Murcia City Council, through the Palace Arts Center Almudí, shows once again its interest in promoting the artistic legacy that has Murcia, by organizing a major exhibition that will tour for one age group might be called limit, as the older generation and toe that takes over the pictorial tradition Murcia through generational link that represents its history.
This exhibition is the first in a series with which the Department of Culture aims to address the analysis of different generations of painting Murcia to facilitate greater and better understanding of the evolution of art in Murcia, as well as artists and the contribution they have made and make the local landscape, nationally and internationally.
Under the heading "Meetings", The Palace Arts Center welcomes Almudí starting today and until April 7, a pictorial exhibition that brings together a group of artists who keep the knowledge of a painting matéricos international indigenous symbols and signs bathed by the Mediterranean climate.
Stephen Campbell (1939) shows a painting in middle age and novel, enriched by its contact with the artistic enseñanzaas.
The artist collects information without leaving the informality and the argument figuration in his paintings, but keep a cryptic message.
A painting that is enhanced by the superimposition of glazes and fillings, with values polychrome plastic careful where traces provide clues for understanding their arguments.
Vicente Ruiz (1941) is the eternal wanderer, a constant evolution that combines two trends are complementary.
A figurative sense as a deformation of the representational and abstraction desired by the poetic feeling that illuminates his work.
Today nothing remains of that figuration that made him a painter.
Now shows a painting happy, intimate, vibrating with the gesture.
Murcia and La Albatalía garden are the setting of childhood and adolescence of Luis Manuel Pastor (1944).
Pastor always has led to the avant-garde experimental paths.
Your search for novelty has led to long processes where the solution has always been at the language of his own painting.
Research materials, reflective statements of their arguments and finding innovative ways to make your painting a constant process of experimentation.
The nude is the theme of the painter's work and the female figure synthesis of iconographic flow.
Manolo Belz (1944) has led to a thousand paintings and concepts and judgments that have shelled over the years.
Their attraction and enthusiasm for the African continent are well known.
In Belz, away from the painter's craft, there is a passion for painting.
The concept of Africa is for the very idea of his painting, reality and illusion, truth and fiction.
When Manuel Barnuevo (1947) returns to Murcia after studying Fine Arts in Madrid, shares his teaching with paint.
An intense expressionist paintings of faces and dramatic characters, critical to the society.
After changing into his work, leaves the drawing into a painting informalist enriched by touches of bright colors and dense material that defines the position of an artist who paints by the sole need to paint.
Has developed a virtually unknown work but with the intense freshness of paint off the fashions of the society to which it belongs.
His paintings are elegant, cryptic, minority, with minimalist lines, projecting the distinct personality of the author.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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