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Fructuoso Miguel is an artist passionate Murcia African art.
His latest creation is a large mural to be displayed in the Naval Museum is exposed within the Sea of Art until 30 August.
Fuking Beauty is the name of the mural, by artist, emulates a map of all areas of the African continent that has happened.
I speak of Africa but from the screen of a western artist, has said this morning Fructuoso.
In his view, African art has had no previous experience, as the West, enabling it to evolve. In Africa the picture is very naive, he warned.
The idea for the mural came after him from the Culture Department will propose to participate in the Sea of Art.
Initially thought to exhibit works that had previously made his trips to Africa, but, as he had exhibited his work Fructuoso decided to create a new work.
Thus was born Fuking Beauty.
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.
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
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