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On Monday, December 4, at 11 o'clock in the morning, an exhibition Homage to the artist José Nicolás Almansa opens in the Rector's Hall of the University of Murcia (Convalecencia building).
The exhibition is organized by the Vice-rectorate of Communication and Culture together with the Museum of the University and the Visual and Visual Arts Classroom.
The exhibition, which has been curated by José Miguel García Cano and Francisco Caballero, hosts a selection of the most emblematic pieces of the painter and sculptor, which are part of the artistic heritage of the University.
The works will remain exposed until next January 18, 2018.
The artist José Nicolás Almansa, (Algezares 1921, Guatemala 1998), began his career as an image maker.
One of his best known works in Murcia is the copy of the Bethlehem de Salzillo, which he made in 1951 on behalf of an industrial Murcia for General Franco.
Due to his success, he founded a Nativity scene workshop on the El Palmar road, but a few years later, in 1957, he traveled to Guatemala, where he established his residence and made his entire career until his death in 1998.
Nicolás Almansa always combined his work as a sculptor with that of a painter.
His great creative activity during these four decades motivated many churches in the Central American country to have their works today.
In 2005, his widow, following the wishes of her husband, donated to the UMU a series of sculptural and pictorial works that have become part of the heritage of this university, exhibiting in the Museum of this center.
The exhibition that opens is a selection of that donation.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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