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Miguel Ãngel Cámara highlights the genius of the work of Antonio Campillo in the delivery of the title of Son (18/11/2008)

The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, delivered this afternoon by the title of Son of the City of Murcia the sculptor Antonio Campillo, in recognition of his splendid career and his dedication and generosity to the town of Murcia.

The Mayor pointed out that among all the honors and recognition that a city gives its children, is perhaps the of Son "the most important and emotive, which best sums up the respect of a local corporation, on behalf of society to one of its citizens.

And in the case before us, attention is mutual.

Because we also add the dedication and love for decades has accorded this Murcia Antonio Campillo today, proud of their merits and sleepless nights, offered support. "

Miguel Angel House has added Antonio Campillo's personality, "his push to get involved to the bone where it has been requested, have allowed him to continue participating in projects and initiatives in different social orders throughout their life.

But to delve into his existence, one finds that there are people who are born predestined to live and feel the art. "

The mayor added during his speech that "as Murcia first, and as Mayor of Murcia, I have found that the generosity of the master to the city has no limits.

Involved in dozens of charity campaigns, while their pictures adorn major museums around the world, just weeks ago won this Murcia who today celebrates two significant pieces, including a woman on a bicycle which won an Award Salzillo, which shall be Murcia cityscape, providing new elements for the transformation of the city through its arts.

And it was not the only gift we enjoy the Murcia. "

Chamber concluded by insisting on "brilliant career who today becomes Murcia's Favorite Son, a genuine sign of respect, affection and appreciation that Murcia feel towards this sculptor who has managed to combine their expertise with their love for the city today recognizes their effort and ingenuity.

Appointment Favorite Son

Murcia Antonio Campillo

Of all the honors and recognition that a city gives its children, is perhaps the Favorite Son of the most important and emotional, who best sums up the respect of a local corporation, on behalf of the whole society, to one of its neighbors .

And in the case before us, attention is mutual.

Because we also add the dedication and love for decades been waived Antonio Campillo Murcia Párraga this today, proud of their merits and sleepless nights, offered support.

Summarize in a few lines and human professional career of Antonio Campillo Párraga is a very complicated task, if not impossible.

Because there are so many jobs and occupations that the sculptor has played so many recognitions, honors, exhibitions and treaties mentioning his work that, undoubtedly, it would take many pages to collect them.

Therefore, Antonio Campillo when it is more advisable to describe it in passing, glossing her figure with expressions just unfinished, like his work, without further ado, approach it and enjoy your good company, his wisdom and his treatment affable.

Antonio Campillo was born in the ancient and noble district of Era Alta, 82 years ago, but do not believe it, on the border that still separates the garden where it stands, the countryside of Murcia.

In its early years, when he was a child, already showed signs of an artist.

And it's not a cliché.

With only seven years turned his imagination in a splendid crib where their expertise and composition surprised many.

Among them, Manuel Fernández-Delgado Marín-Baldo, who pave the entrance to the tiny teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts.

It started a career that would bring glory and satisfaction, or even imagined.

His first teacher was a figure modeling of the time: Clemente Santos, then follow the footsteps of another great artist, Juan González Moreno, whose studio, where he was apprenticed, get to know all the secrets of the sculpture, but not before also learn to shut the doors and sweep the studio, like any self-respecting novice.

Gradually, in the place he remembers as a quiet place where only one worked, the teacher Campillo was acquiring a pulsating style and perfected, scholarship in hand, in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, which received the Thesis Award in 1953, being awarded the National Award for his Salzillo Virgen de la Soledad.

However, as his name began to be known at the highest artistic circles, never forget those years of his childhood in modeling the mud of the canals.

Campillo, in addition to the sculpture dominates the picture to perfection, many of them are spread by Spain soon focused on the religious sculpture, respecting the splendid tradition of Murcia and aggrandizement.

Thus, many churches have their own imagery.

Virgin simple and unadorned to arouse passions and feelings of peace and comfort.

As Virgin of Solitude, in the procession of the return from the Carmelite church processions and so many years that I've been proud to carry on my shoulders in the evening of Good Friday to Holy Saturday mornings.

However, orders decline of religious sculptures, had to start making art profane, decidedly promoted his work in Madrid.

Student first, teacher then was a professor at the School of Arts and Crafts of Cordoba from 1966 to 1977 and in Madrid from that year.

Lover of all materials.

Barro, his first material, wood, which applies the gouge in a masterly manner, as evidenced by the Virgin of Arrixaca just admire the entrance, plaster, which is so comfortable ... bronze, stone ... Any material , hard to be possible, or she might face, reduce, master to stop taking advantage of what treasures inside.

His travels through Europe, the Mediterranean approach to sculpture, these elegant and voluptuous forms that define their women and midwives were profiling the author and the great character it contains.

Because Campbell's work is a faithful portrait of his personality, hard work and the materials you like most about modeling, a way with people that make it worthy of the title of Foster Child.

In Murcia we can appreciate his work with pride.

Since the bust of Rubén Darío, now in rehabilitation, Murciano Tribute to Nazareth, I had the honor of opening in La Glorieta in Spain a decade ago.

Women also surprised us at the door of the Auditorium and Congress Centre or the God Mercury, located next to the Chamber of Commerce of Murcia ... These are works that are the hallmarks of a growing Murcia and is decked.

As Murcia and as Mayor of Murcia, I have found that the generosity of the master for the city has no limits.

Involved in dozens of charity campaigns, while their pictures adorn major museums around the world, just weeks ago won this Murcia who today celebrates two important pieces, including Venus bike that won him a Nobel Salzillo, which shall be the urban landscape of Murcia, in the renovated and restored Ruiz Hidalgo Park and its surroundings, providing new elements for the transformation of the city through its arts.

And it was not the only gift we enjoy the Murcia.

Antonio Campillo involves the viewer in their works, with their fans so far as to offer the possibility to end, to conclude the piece in one way or another, according to the feeling at that moment was experience.

Along with the reasons that have always obsessed (horses, women, cyclists ...), the sculptor has given life to an endless series of mud, bronzes, plaster busts, miniatures, drawings, sketches ...

All of a splendid world of symbols that enhance the work of Antonio Campos, a work that is left to discover for every look, a new sculpture for each viewer, as it is the observer who completed his imagination and ended in his mind.

If your professional is undeniable and almost endless curriculum that adorns it, no one would doubt his murcianía.

To prove it suffices to recall some of the distinctions Antonio Campillo treasures and show how Murcia has recognized his efforts on this earth.

Antonio Campillo was earned, on two occasions, the National Award Salzillo, who joined many others and the honor of receiving the Gold Medal of the Region of Murcia.

Campillo Antonio's personality, his drive to get involved to the bone where it has been required, we have allowed to continue participating in projects and initiatives in different social orders throughout his life for the culture, art and his beloved Murcia.

Accordingly, and as sincere sign of respect, affection and appreciation that we feel for Murcia this great artist, who has combined his expertise with his love for his city, the full City Council of Murcia Antonio Campillo grants the title Párraga Favorite Son of Murcia.

Miguel Angel Botia Camera

Mayor of Murcia

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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