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The Hall of Columns of the Palace Arts Center welcomes Almudí from today until January 6, an exhibition of nearly fifty sculptures First International Competition finalists Murcia City.
The show, which opened this afternoon by the Mayor, Miguel Angel House, attended by some of these artists, including the outstanding with prizes awarded by the jury.
Among the exhibits include those created by Dutch artist Akmar Nijhof, Belgian and American Thomas Huyghe Carol Brown, who won the first, second and third prize, while the Spanish Eduardo Romaguera, Cuban Hugo Javier Luis Orlandini and Ribera ( Spain) were highlighted with two mentions of the jury and honorable mention, respectively.
The 49 works that can be seen in the Palace Almudí were selected from 253 submitted to the contest sculptures by artists from 44 nationalities.
The three first prizes and two second prizes will become urban sculptures that will join Levante Park.
Meanwhile, the finalists go to heritage Murcia Futuro Foundation, organizer of the contest along with the city, in collaboration with the FCG.
The Mayor stressed the plastic quality and richness of the works presented and noted that "it will be a pride for the city include the urban landscape this new public sculpture monumental sculptural and artistic development of future Levante Park".
An internationally renowned jury, consisting of Barañano Kosme (Director of the Department of Methodology of the History of Art and Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Altea at the University Miguel Hernández de Elche) FCG (artist) , Petra Joos (Director of the Department of Museum Activities Guggenheim Museum Bilbao), John Keenen (Editor architect Master Plan Levante Park Murcia), Terry Riley (Editor architect Master Plan Levante Park Murcia) and Joel Shapiro (artist).
The jury president of Barañano Kosme, explains the winning entries:
- First Prize for Dutch Karawan Akmar Nijhof with a square of 12 meters long, with a figure of a caravan and tow vehicle, furnished as a home, now located in a park.
The piece is made from cement mixing the sand with a phosphorescent material that will make the caravan look petrified night.
The piece refers to both the historical past of the region as a frontier of Hispanics Arab migration to existing tourism.
- Second Award Fitness Belgian Thomas Huyghe with Totem, 10 meters high, a facility such as an altar or monolith with a high purity linear, with a volumetric graph sense.
Various materials rise crimped together as a series of objects and shapes forming a tower of meanings and references.
- Third Prize for American Carol Brown Goldberg Safe Steps, 3 meters high.
This artist comes from the surreal world, specifically automatic writing André Breton, but not drawing, but installing sculptures in the amount of industrial parts or everyday objects to turn them into its re-organization in a kind of mausoleum in the to worship that everyday, now out of context and use.
This cast in bronze.
- Second Prize for Spanish artist Eduardo Romaguera by Yosi of 4.7 meters.
Yosi is a strange way, a piece where it melts and flows amalgamating yellow ironic object, getting a piece in which humor and inhibition are presented to the viewer as a riddle.
- Second prize Cuban Horizon Hugo Orlandini three computer keys as three banks in the park eight meters long and 0.45 high.
- Honorable mention a very interesting project but whose construction seems somewhat impossible, presented by the Valencian artist Javier young Ribera Mursiya a 15 meter circular structure that recalls the Arabs of the city gates, sloping hard constructible.
Was the project thematically linked to the history of the city of Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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