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Tomorrow, Friday April 26 at 20.30, the Archaeological Museum of Los Banos will host the opening of the retrospective exhibition of M.
Andreo Dolores Maurandi.
The show, which begins with the title "Maria Dolores: Near Absence" was coordinated by journalist Murcia Pedro Soler and occupy not only the exhibition hall of the Archaeological Museum, but also the building of The Granary.
With this sample, Alhama memory recovers the work of one of the artists who, through their work, managed to expose some of the most important rooms in the world of national and international art.
The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog, also coordinated by the journalist Pedro Soler, which collects the work exhibited, as well as various texts of both the painter and art specialists who spoke of it.
He also writes in the aforementioned edition Soler Peter himself, who personally knew the artist alhameña, or Professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of Murcia, M ª Carmen Sánchez Rojas.
The work will be exhibited through the work of the Department of Culture and Heritage of Alhama de Murcia and the great collaboration of the family that guards the work of the painter died in 2005
M ª Dolores Andreo and his work
We are in the 60s.
The painting, literature, architecture ... art in general, is restricted almost to man.
There are few,-some writers, which find their way into a world almost male.
A alhameña, born under the sign of Aries and, for most, with Aries rising, born with a vocation, momentum, sensitivity, discipline, creativity and determination to break the mold that achieved, barriers and walls.
Maria Dolores is Maurandi Andreo, not given to grandstanding painter, to the public, to lavish ...
Maria Dolores Andreo discussed Maurandi world works through, has been selected for the most important biennial held in the world, his work has toured the halls and museums highlights of Spain, London, New York, Miami, Buenos Aires, Portugal , Paris, Holland, South Africa, Ljubljana (former Yugoslavia), Monte Carlo, Germany ... He has traveled throughout the Spanish territory, including islands.
In the decade of the 20s comes in Murcia a group of artists including sculptors and painters are like Jose Plans, Antonio Garrigós, Pedro Flores, Ramón Gaya and Luis Garay.
Maria Dolores Andreo be the last of the Mediterranean core received the guidelines and teachings of one of its creators, Luis Garay, alternating his studies of Teaching.
Upon graduation he moved to Madrid in the last years of the fifties.
In 1960, and after participating in some group exhibitions, presents his first solo show.
These lithographs with the theme of Christ.
It was then when the artist alhameña is discovered as an artistic reference in the twentieth century in Spanish landscape.
The curriculum of the painter is extensive but, for example, José Luis Morales y Marin, Professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Louis and a member of the international association of art critics an article entitled "Maria Dolores Andreo. Centre Murcia as Background" had the following:
"... These Christs, or" Cristophenos "as she calls them, will constitute a major contribution to the history of Spanish art of past great fifties and early sixties ...."
"... The success should revalidate soon in Madrid Grin-Gho room, thereby achieving a deserved place in the arts Madrid. And although Maria Dolores never been very much in favor of awards and competitions, in 1964 gets the Silver Medal in the National Painting ... At the same time, his work was selected for numerous international exhibitions at this time in Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Paris, The Hague, Monte Carlo, Munich, Gelsenkirchen and Essen ... "
The sample of the face of Christ obtained such impact as Salvador Perez Valiente poets have dedicated poems or academic Carmen Conde, poet who wrote an essay based on the works of the painter alhameña entitled "Was this your semblance luck." -
Maria Dolores continues to work tirelessly and restates in 1965 and Jose Luis Morales y Marin still counts in the article mentioned.
"In February we celebrate the exhibition and all criticism Madrid surrenders to modernity and novelty in the work of this woman. In our country, and in a few years when it was still widely believed that art was reserved for the man, from Mary Blanchard, few painters had the unanimous praise host Maria Dolores Andreo obtained with this sample. And so, critics Antonio M. Campoy, Sanchez Camargo, Ramon Saez, Figuerola Ferretti, Castro Arines and etc. Intellectuals like Perez Valiente, Angel Crespo and Carmen Conde or poets like José Hierro, greeted our key artist as a name already in the Spanish art scene. "
"... The successes and recognitions succeed ... get the March Foundation grant and was selected to attend two of the world's largest biennial, that of Sao Paulo and the Ljubljana ...
... The decade of the sixties, the first ten years of stay in Madrid, offering not only highly positive balance, but also the confirmation of the birth of a great painter, with whom he would henceforth historians and critics have charged with witness the complex phenomenon that led to the evolution of Spanish art in those difficult years and the new Golden Age in which he was ".
This success does not make Maria Dolores is established.
Quite the contrary.
Finished a stage, continues with his disciplined work that it outputs its creative spirit, looking for other visual references.
Resurface consolidate new exhibitions that achieve artistic recognition and his works are in Francavilla al Mare (Italy) or at the Gulbenkian in Lisbon.
In the early eighties begins to be present in different collecting contemporary art museums constant praise most demanding critics and the views of prominent intellectuals.
Indeed, in search of artistic expression, in 1980, at the Ateneo de La Laguna (Tenerife), from the hand of Domingo Pérez Minik, one of the most important figures in twentieth-century literary criticism Spanish and friend of one of the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, presented his only book of poems "Not a word more."
This publication, much in the line of his paintings, achieving great recognition but Maria Dolores returned to his brushes.
Mindful of his work for years were the writers, poets, intellectuals featured on the national scene and international criticism.
A Maurandi Andreo Maria Dolores has plenty awards and distinctions because, as she said to paraphrase Henry Miller, one of his favorite authors "found that what I had wanted all my life was not live (if what the other is called live) but expressing myself. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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