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The mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez accompanied by the president of the CAM, and the sculptor Ángel Martínez, Juan José Quirós have opened this afternoon at the roundabout on Avenida Juan Carlos I, the bronze sculpture depicting the figure of a woman and has been designed by sculptor Juan José Quirós Cartagenero to honor the fiftieth anniversary of independence of the municipality lumbrerense.
Starting today, the figure of a woman 2.5 m tall with open arms and the spiral-shaped body will welcome visitors to Puerto Lumbreras, through a sculpture sponsored by the Caja Mediterranean to celebrate the half century history of the town lumbrerense.
The sculpture, in bronze patina, has been placed on a steel base cut of 2.4 meters, reaching the whole work an elevation of almost 5 meters.
According to the mayor, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, "this work will welcome the visitor, in one of the main access roads to the city that symbolizes the progress of a people regarded as evolving rather than passage of cultures and has managed to extract the best of them. "
Also Sánchez, made reference to the inauguration of the sculpture tribute to the "Cinquantenaire" during the summer by artist lumbrerense FOD, located in a passageway of many residents and visitors, and especially in a growing area that "with this new image will be considered as a sign of identity of a people that celebrates 50 years of Independence."
JUAN JOSE QUIRÓS Illanes, SANTA LUCIA.
CARTAGENA 1972.
Your journey begins in the 90's winning the first prize 'Artejoven Cartagena City' in 1992 with the work titled "Black.
A Voice Against Racism '.
In 1993, he was only 21 years, opens its first Easter happened to this city, being from that date when seizure activity begins as a carver and sculptor.
Has made a number of steps for the Easter Region of seeing in him a renewed spirit of the purest tradition of Baroque.
But we can not stay in his lavish facet of religious images, but we must know the sculptor Quirós start on 2000 with monuments dedicated to the Apostle Santiago in Cartagena, Carmen Conde monument in the heart of the port city, the monument to Nazareno de Ceuta, dedicated to pilgrims in the center of Santiago de la Ribera and more recently a tribute to the Franciscan Cehegín, as well as the relief dedicated to the Virgen del Rosario of Puerto Lumbreras, plus other busts and pictures located streets and squares throughout the Region.
Include its presence as a sculptor Salzillo year designated by the Autonomous Community of Murcia to represent the Region at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR).
It is also chosen for the institutional gift was given to His Majesty King Juan Carlos I, during his visit to Murcia, to inaugurate the exhibition "Salzillo, Witness to a Century" and its compilation of all exhibition His work in the hall of Murcia Veronicas in November last year.
With its exhibition "Timeless Bronze" at the Palace Molina de Cartagena, is currently regarded as one of the finest examples of sculpture Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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