The gift this year will be distributed with the official program of the September Fair is signed by one of the best sculptors Murcia: Antonio Campillo.
The figure represents the bust of a picador.
Campillo Although the original was made in bronze, the reproductions are of clay.
A total of 4000 delivered gifts to the official program of festivities that will begin to share the week of Sept. 1, at two points in town.
With this gift, the City continues the initiative last year: that the Gift Fair in September are figures made by artists from Murcia alluding to different themes that can be festive, thus forming a library.
Also, this project works with companies and converts belenístico Murcia possessed of art.
Remember that the Fair in September 2007 gave a figure of a child with a balloon made by Joseph Molera.
Antonio Campillo was born in the hamlet of Alta was in 1926.
It is considered one of the great artists from Murcia.
Among other honorary degrees he has received include the Sculptor of the Year 2000, appointed by the Superior City Council of Guilds, Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Santa Maria de la Arrixaca, Laurel de Murcia, Gold Medal and adopted son the town of Ceuta, in 2003, when he inaugurated the museum that bears his name; collegiate honor of the College of physicians, Gold Medal of the Bar Association, favorite son of the city of Murcia, Gold Medal Region, Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Murcia ...
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia