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The works of four promises of painting encourage children hospitalized in the Arrixaca and Reina Sofia (31/07/2009)

There are no better pictures to encourage children hospitalized than other children painted.

This is the opinion of the Councillor for Culture, Fátima Barnuevo, and why the City of Murcia has willed to give four works that hang on the walls of the new maternity hospital in La Arrixaca and the corresponding unit of the Hospital Reina Sofía .

The works, drawn by the artist Katarzyna Rogowicz in collaboration with children between 8 and 13 years old, are the fruit of their work in Intergalático Painting Workshop, Reading and Writing, held at the Museum of Science and Water Murcia fruit last year and which organized an exhibition with a total of nine pictures of large and medium size, from December 2008 to January 2009.

The colorful, imagination, creativity, conviviality and restlessness are the basis of the works of these young talents of painting Murcia, which will be filled with color and give more joy the mother-child units of both hospitals.

The pictures delivered this morning at the Museum of Science and Water by Barnuevo the Director General of Citizen of the Ministry of Health, Juan Manuel Ruiz, and Miguel Santiuste and Enrique Serrano, medical directors of the Hospital Virgen Reina Sofia the Arrixaca, respectively, are:

Maternal and Child Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca

1) Title: Laika into orbit.

Format: 244x122 cm

Technique: Acrylic and wax on beech wood.

2) Title: Fabulous.

Format: 244x122 cm

Technique: Acrylic on wood beech + points of light.

Hospital Reina Sofía

1) Title: The cosmic spider

Format: 244x122 cm

Technique: Acrylic and cotton thread on beech wood.

2) Title: Space armadillo Ophiuchus