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The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, thanked on behalf of the City College of Nursing at the donation of a sculpture by Miguel Llamas, today presides over the entrances to the Hospital Reina Sofia and is now part of city heritage .
The work has been inaugurated this morning to coincide with International Nurses Day "in an act that has been attended by the President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel and the Mayor of the city, Miguel Ángel Cámara, and the president College of Nursing in the Region of Murcia, Diego Gutierrez, and the author of the work, Miguel Llamas.
Murcia is becoming a city of reference for urban art and the College of Nursing, coinciding with the anniversary, wanted to contribute.
The Mayor thanked the cooperation to this end with its "generous donation" and has been pleased that "the presence of works by great artists contributing to the Murcia and visitors alike can enjoy this outdoor museum, among all , we are creating. "
The "Tribute to Nursing" remember today the anniversary of the establishment of the College, which was completed last year.
Your site has not been random.
The location chosen was near the Reina Sofía Hospital as this is the health center where nurses were trained generations of the region, before the existence of colleges.
"A gesture maternal"
To commemorate this event, Miguel Llamas has created a bronze memorial sculpture that will serve to be the image of the centennial.
The work plays in a steel plate 25 mm thick in the area of the harp, with a polished patina and a head substrate treated with manganese bronze when applied to the left with its golden color.
The curvature provides a gesture of leaning forward, so as to cater to another, a maternal gesture, to care for another, a feature of the nursing profession.
The blades represent formerly had crossed strips of nurses scrubs, in front view.
Llamas, author of the Segura River Sardina
"The Tribute to Nursing" is the first work of Miguel Llamas can be seen in the city.
He is also author of the sardine is bronze in the Segura River in honor of the Feast of the Burial of the Sardine.
Llamas was born in Velez Rubio and studied art history.
Some of his greatest works are scattered throughout Murcia, Alicante and Almeria.
He recently made a joint exhibition with painters Pedro Cano, Antonio Martínez Mengual and Antonio Díaz Bautista in Faculty of Law Faculty of the University of Murcia.
In his native land has also organized and participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, is the author of the monument in homage to the centuries-old juniper Chirivel located in the Botanical Garden of Mary.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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