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The muleño painter, Nono García, opens on Friday, January 18, at 20:00, at the Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena, his exhibition 'Archeology'.
The Councilor for Culture of the City of Cartagena, David Martinez, and the Minister of Culture, Miriam Guardiola, are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of this temporary exhibition, which can be visited until April 1.
Nono García presents in this exhibition 'Arqueologías' canvases where they reveal with their own light those vestiges of the material culture that is kept in the Archaeological Museums of the Region, sometimes they are glasses, other jars or casseroles, in definite objects of daily use that they evoke the murmur of the people who inhabited the southeast throughout history.
In other works, the cold marble carved by the Romans has taken color and plasticity
In the tour of the exhibition the viewer will face some archaeological pieces rescued from the past painted with some realism, although surrounded by a warm and poetic atmosphere, where the artist's mastery of light and brushes allows almost caressing the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian capital of the Roman theater or the folds of the dress of the Citarista that accompanies the Altar of Jupiter.
Works carved in marble that decorated the Roman theater and that, now taken to the canvases, recall the play of lights and shadows so frequent in Roman mural painting.
Archeologies of a land where Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Jews and Christians navigated and lived.
Stories like that of the Byzantine neighborhood about the Roman theater destroyed by the Goths, where the roofs of their houses crushed the daily trousseaux of their dwellers, ajuares that Nono recovers as timeless still lifes, recalling the multiple civilizations that have passed through these lands.
In his creative process the artist has used his brushes as poetic language and evokes the deep admiration for those objects rescued from the past, that great puzzle of our History, now reworked from the perspective of contemporary art, looking for that point of encounter and dialogue with last.
In this temporary exhibition, the City Council of Cartagena, the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, the Foundation of the Roman Theater of Cartagena, the Caja Murcia Foundation and the Ibedrola Foundation collaborate.
THE ARTIST NONO GARCÃA
Nono García, is an artistic pseudonym of Antonio García Sánchez, was born in the Murcian city of Mula.
Since childhood he developed his artistic and aesthetic sense;
devoted entirely to painting over the years has become an accomplished painter of still lifes and urban landscapes, as well as nature with watercolor and mixed techniques in various supports.
In the south-east of the peninsula, it is a reference point today and an artist associated with the New Renewed Figuration.
Trained at the Art School of Murcia, he has received classes from the hyperrealist Antonio López (2005), and above all from the master of light Pedro Cano (2004 and 2010), and with the multi-faceted Cristóbal Gabarrón (2006-07), these being two last artists who will determine their artistic orientation and will initiate you in the direct observation of nature and landscape, together with the influence of the master Ramón Gaya.
He has participated in numerous collective exhibitions in national and international geography.
Of the individual samples, stand out among others: 'Patina del tiempo', Palacio del Almudí, Murcia (2018);
'The wait'.
'Subjective reality', Consistorial Houses, Mazarrón, Murcia (2017);
'Latitude 37.4', Cajamurcia Foundation, Águilas, Murcia (2016);
'Ascética Variation', Museum-Convent of San Francisco, Mula, Murcia (2015);
'Opera Intangibile' at the Museo della Carta e della Filigrana in Fabriano, Italy (2013);
'Transeúntes' in the different museums of the Gabarrón Foundation in New York (USA), Valladolid and the Painted House in Mula (2011).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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