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Antonio de Felipe has been commissioned to design the image that accompanies the festival this year, in which Joaquin Sorolla honors the 150th anniversary of his birth and introduces the most significant elements of his works
The Valencian artist Antonio de Felipe, one of the current representatives of the Pop movement Art, has been commissioned to design the poster for the 19th edition of The Sea Music Cartagena sign that the author, accompanied by the Councillor for Culture , Rosario Montero, and festival director, Francisco Martin, presented today to the media.
This is an adapted version of one of the artist's works, representing the sea, music, his most characteristic, such as Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe, and a tribute to Joaquín Sorolla, in the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mediterranean artistic genius.
According to Antonio de Felipe, this assignment I liked especially given my association with the world of advertising and, therefore, with the posters, in this case trying to put my main identity.
As a nod to the environment in which the festival is held, the author introduces the poster flag of the autonomous community.
In addition, using the new link has been established artist, with the city, Francisco Martin anuncinaba you are working for an exhibition of his works related to music in the environment of the Sea of Art.
De Felipe thickens so the list of painters and photographers who have collaborated in creating the image of the festival as Miquel Barceló, Joan Fontcuberta, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Chema Madoz, Oscar Marine, Angel Mateo Charris, Dora Catarineu, Javier de Juan, Alberto García Alix, The Gardener, Ouka Lele.
Ceesepe and Javier Mariscal.
Born in Valencia in 1965, and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in this city for the 80s.
It is a multidisciplinary artist not only took up painting or sculpture, but also ventured into various fields, such as: collaborated with Pedro Almodóvar in the film Live Flesh, Telemadrid curtains designed, created a signature dishes for Santa Clara , and collaborated with major publications such as BW Dominical (Sunday magazine ABC), The Country, The Magazine of the newspaper El Mundo, Marie Claire, Elle and Rolling Stone, among others.
It excels in Pop art, paying homage to the world of advertising, film or Spanish Baroque painting.
In his work appear representations of everyday objects, consumer products and icons of mass culture.
Nor forget to refer to the great classical painters: Velázquez, who devoted an entire series in its early days, Munch-reinvents The cry replacing the main character by the king of the monkeys-or Picasso in whose Demoiselles Avinyà ² inserted myths to classic Hollywood's sexiest.
De Felipe has developed his extensive work in different series, some of which has managed to become a reference point, making it one of the most imitated artists of our country.
Among his most important series might include: LOGOS, dedicated to the world of art and advertising, with works such as the In-fanta orange, or The Good Shepherd with Norit, COWS, with paintings such as Vogue or sculpture Vaca Vaca Coca Cola, Cinemaspop, dedicated to world cinema and in which rescued the delicious Audrey Hepburn as a pop icon, with creations as well known as Black Audrey and Breakfast at Tiffany for eternity, and POPSPORT, his latest work, dedicated to sport , in which the artist mixes so unlikely the world of art and cartoons with allusions to various sports, as in Menina with tracksuit.
The successful career of Antonio de Felipe has become undoubtedly our reference Pop painter in the world, not in vain is the only Spanish representative in the exhibition on Marilyn Monroe Life as a legend who has toured major European cities London, Istanbul, Madrid, Lisbon and Helsinki, and the United States as Chicago and Dallas and currently is in Canada.
Also, Antonio de Felipe is part of Les nouveaux Pop movement along with artists from other countries of the world of Pop and which is also conducting numerous exhibitions beyond our borders.
Numerous collections, public and private funds have in their artist's work, including the National Museum of Art Reina Sofia, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Sydney Besthoff Foundation New Orleans, United States, the Col-lecció Testimoni Fundació La Caixa, the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Kneip Art Collection in Luxembourg, and the Montblanc Cultural Foundation.
In his more than twenty years of intensive career Antonio de Felipe has made ​​more than seventy solo exhibitions, both in Spain and abroad, and as many collective.
In this national and international presence adds participation in fairs like ARCO ART COLOGNE PARIS ART, ART Brussels, Strasbourg ST-ART, or KIAF (Korea International Art Fair), frameworks for the latest trends in art.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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