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The Autonomous Community of Murcia has organized an exhibition of paintings by artist John Ricolópez Yeclano at the Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia (MUBAM), which opens tomorrow, Thursday, February 2 (20.00 hours) and remain open until Wednesday, March 22 .
The exhibition, called "Flashback. 60 years of painting" was presented this morning in Murcia in a press conference in the same Museum of Fine Arts, which featured the Mayor of Yecla, Mark Ortuño and Councilman Culture, Jesus Verdu, and the Director General of Cultural Assets, Francisco Gimenez and the painter himself.
The exhibition is a commitment of the President of the Region, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, who wanted the region and pays tribute to our famous artist, as an event prior to the donation of the entire collection to the town of Yecla, which, along with other pictures previously donated to the municipality, they shall be part of a room in the Casa-Museo Municipal de Cultura in which permanently exhibited, in addition to the fifty-odd oil paintings, artist's archival documents, letters, drawings and preparatory sketches.
Murcia will be able to have this exhibition, which will spread the work, with the presence of the artist for almost two months, visitors explaining his technique and his way of doing.
John Ricolópez, wanted the exhibition catalog is composed in our city, Yeclagrafic workshops with creative participation of this company, with photographs of the work undertaken by Nohales and photographer René Pimentel, of Miami.
In the literature there are collaborations of the President of the Community, the Mayor of Yecla, the Director of the Casa de Cultura, with an introduction to painting by the Academic Ricolópez Francisco-Javier Delicado, and a selection of texts on the Ricolópez work of Jose Luis Castillo-Puche, a personal friend and illustrious Yeclano closely related to the painter, as well as an anthology of excerpts from various art critics, among them Carlos Valcarcel, Chronicler of Murcia and father of President of the Community, on the occasion of the exhibition in 1964 held in the County.
Juan Rico Lopez Biography
(Brief biography from the information contained in the book "Yeclano" by Miguel Ortuño Palao)
Juan Lopez was born in Yecla Rico on July 16, 1925
Title in Teaching (1945), Assistant Public Works (1950) and practiced this profession mainly in Valencia.
Self-taught painter, then studied art in Barcelona and Valencia.
His first exhibits were performed in 1960 in Palma de Majorca and Benidorm.
In 1963 he made his first exhibition in Yecla
He has exhibited in many Spanish towns.
Also in Britain, France, Dominican Republic and especially in the U.S., where it has plenty of work.
For his painting "The Dance of the apple" was chosen principal dancer in Chicago and Milwaukee Madisosn.
Strong chromatic painter, attracted by the scenes of fishing and harvest.
In Yecla, the City would dedicate a tribute done in a retrospective exhibition in 2000 and was the author of the poster of the Festival of the Virgin in 2002.
In 1991, Castillo-Puche published a book about his painting.
In 2002 the weekly "El Faro de Yecla" was awarded the "Best Ambassador of Yecla in the world."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla
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