On Tuesday, July 10, will be presented to the installation media paintings of Miguel Fructuoso, Fucking Beauty, which will be showcased at the Naval Museum in Cartagena from July 10 to August 30, 9-14 pm, occasion of the International Festival of Music The Sea.
The press pass will be held at 10.30 am.
In colonial culture diluted the principles of the Enlightenment.
The exploits of European nations reduced man to a minimum under a cloak of salvation that concealed a deep contempt for indigenous cultures.
But on this trip they lost the two parties; Africa was relegated to third world whose boundaries were defined then and we lost the richness and intensity of his memory of places.
We did not learn the joy of dancing in the street.
The magic of the mythical and unknown places in literary myths faded so busy in our imagination as forgotten in the real journey.
Today we speak of economic principles based on the hydrocarbon potential in exchange for real wealth denature, natural and historical identities of nations as strong as ours.
The intervention of Michael Fructuoso at the Naval Museum to La Mar de Musicas 2012, a large-scale mural, delves into these fractures Eurocentric in collision with the color, vitality and joy of the countries of southern Africa.
Based on your trip to Mozambique, Maputo and South Africa in recent years, the geometric trace derived from the historical vanguards of becoming contaminated an art which is but a song to life, the majesty of the instincts in remote havens .
Miguel Fructuoso (Murcia 1971) is one of the artists most significantly revised the principles of painting from a critical position.
In his extensive resume, which includes samples in the gallery Portuguese Pedro Oliveira in 2003, the T20 Murcia in 2002 and 2005, and Magda Bellotti Fúcares Madrid in 2004 and at the University Carlos III in Pamplona (2003), Fortress of Maputo, in Marracuene, Maputo (2009) or the Aguirre Palace Cartagena in 2001.
His work, usually at major exhibitions and biennials in the world, is found in numerous public collections, among which the El Monte Foundation in Seville, CAM (Mediterranean Savings Bank), Museum of Contemporary Art in Almagro, Bank of Spain, Fundación Caja Murcia, Murcia and municipalities of Puerto Lumbreras or MEIAC in Badajoz.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena