The Best Contemporary Andalusian Art meets in Madrid
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| The presentation ceremony |
The Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors AEPE
brings together some of the highlights of current Andalusian art in the
exhibition “ANDALUZ. ES” at the La Vaguada Cultural Center
Twenty of the most renowned
Andalusian creators have been selected to represent their land in this
exhibition that we can see until June 20.
The presentation ceremony
was carried out by José Gabriel Astudillo (President of the Spanish Association
of Painters and Sculptors AEPE), José Antonio Martínez Páramo (Councillor of the
Junta de Fuencarral El Pardo), Isabel Albás Vives (Lt. Mayor of Culture and
Historical Heritage of the City Council of Córdoba), Tomás Paredes (Honorary
President of the Spanish Association of Art Critics), María Dolores Barreda
(General Secretary of the AEPE), Francisco Arroyo Ceballos (Delegate of the
AEPE and Commissioner of the exhibition) and Miguel Rodríguez (Commissioner of
the exhibition).
In attendance were
María Azcona Antón (Head of the Museums and Exhibitions Service of the Madrid
City Council on behalf of Emilio del Ríos), Eva Delgado (General Director of
Culture of Córdoba), Cristina Fernández (Councilor of Culture of
Arroyomolinos).
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| The presentation ceremony |
Twenty-six paintings
and eight sculptures that will make up a great showcase of current Andalusian
art, among which, logically, we find very diverse styles and techniques.
Under the title
Andaluz.es, the exhibition includes paintings and sculptures by the most
renowned Andalusian artists related to the AEPE, with a very high artistic
level in which the identity of each of the participating artists is respected,
all of them with consolidated careers and recognition not only local and
national, but also international.
In the Exhibition
Hall of the C.C. La Vaguada, a renovated space adapted to current cultural demand,
which offers avant-garde programming and shows a diversity of really
interesting artists, the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors has
managed to bring together some of the best established figures of Andalusian
artistic talent, in a project that has been carried out by the Delegate of the
AEPE of Córdoba, Francis Arroyo Ceballos, and Miguel Rodríguez.
The artists selected
for this first exhibition are Arroyo Ceballos, Rubén Belloso, Diego Canca,
Cecilio Chaves, Fernando Devesa, José Domínguez, Francisco Escalera, Andrés
García Ibáñez, Paco Lara, José Manuel Martínez Pérez, Josefa Medina, Pepe
Puntas, Eva Riquelme, Miguel Rodríguez Núñez, María José Ruiz, Carmen Sánchez
Ruda, Martín Sati, José María Serrano, Noé Serrano and Francisco Vera Muñoz.
In Andaluz.es the
conception of each artist is shown articulated as a constellation of views on
the present, in dialogue with the past and with a view to the future.
The AEPE has, in its
115 years of work in favor of art and culture, such outstanding annual
references as the Reina Sofía Prize for Painting and Sculpture or the Autumn
Salon among many others and in its Founding Act it includes names as relevant
in the Spanish art scene as Joaquín Sorolla, Ricardo Baroja, José Pinazo or
Joaquín Zuloaga.
The presentation ceremony
The presentation ceremony
