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The book "White meat" of artist Juan José Martínez Cánovas Murcia won first prize in the International Painting Contest VI Toledo City Cieza Puche, worth 6,000 euros.

The oil in which Cánovas Martínez has realistically portrayed a naked woman has been exposed, along with the rest of pictures selected by the jury, Cieza Siyâsa Museum and the Library of the University of Murcia.

The second prize, which correspond to 2,400 euros donated by the Fund Mediterrannee, went to Antonio Utrera Quesada with the abstract oil on canvas' From the series IV land. "

Javier Martínez Pino, with the work 'Melted tree', was the third place 1200 euros, "and pathways have also been given references to the works 'The Afternoon', by Cristina Gamon Lazaro, and 'No' Pepa Satué Ripoll.

The jury, composed of Lourdes Cobacho, Juan Antonio Lorca and Juan Antonio Abellan, issued his ruling at a ceremony held last October at the Museum of Siyâsa and which were handed awards to the authors of the winning paintings.

Curriculum:

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2003/08 Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Murcia.

University Research Project 2006 New Education Project pictorial material 05-P124, awarded by the ICE, Murcia.

2004/2005 boarder in the subjects Color II and Fundamentals of Painting academic year.

COURSES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Grant 2007/08 Seneca College of Fine Arts Sicue Alonso Cano of Granada.

2007 Landscape Grant Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation, Granada.

Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship 2006/07 Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma Roma.

2006 Scholarship for Landscape Painters Quintanar Pensioner's Palace, The Paular, Segovia.

2005 Theory and practice of artistic creation.

Workshops and environments, conducted by Antonio López García, Los Alcazares, Murcia.

2004 The sea and the myth, taught by Antonio López García, Los Alcazares, Murcia.

2004 I Plastic Research Conference on the landscape of Letur, Albacete.

AWARDS

2009 First prize in the contest XVII Young Municipal Building "Creajoven", Murcia.

2009 First prize at the VI International Prize for Painting Toledo Puche, Cieza.

2008 Second Prize in Painting Prize Aula IX Visual Arts University of Murcia, Murcia.

2008 Second prize in the contest XVI Creajoven Young Municipal Building, Murcia.

2006 Silver Medal in the Landscape Painters Pensioners Fellowship of the Palace of Quintanar, Segovia.

WORK IN

-City of Murcia.

-Ayuntamiento de Cieza.

Salzillo-Museum, Murcia.

-Royal Academy of History and Art San Quirce, Segovia.

Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation, Granada.

-Museum, Palacio del Valle, Murcia.

Cayetano was born in Cieza Puche Toledo in 1945 and died in the same city in 1998.

At fifteen he got his first prize for painting and eighteen solo exhibitions began showing his work for the good of the country.

Big fan of poetry, founded and chaired the Cultural Association "The People and Art" that created the international award "Luis Santamarina.

This hobby led him to illustrate several books of poets Aurelio Guirao, Eduardo López, Antonio Gómez, Angel Almela and Antonio Ortega.

Toledo Lucas José Puche the artist said: "He was versatile, diverse, flexible to the landscape, puzzling at the figure by drawing, wise, safe and strong.

He wore his immense heart over the shirt, so his work is passionate, rhythmic, bright.

He could have scratched a few strokes and deep, mysterious and magical that contains the landscape, is that so hard to penetrate the secrets of it. "

The historian and art critic Pedro Alberto Cruz Fernández says: "The figure, still life, interiors, if not enough to overshadow the landscape, take naturalized in his work and exhibitions.

Even the urban, the houses, the antithesis of nature, the housing is privately built space for isolation of human nature and their fellows, appear as a reinterpretation of what we might call "the human landscape," not humanized landscape, which emphasizes, in a year in advance of its silent nature, hide-and-control windows act as many eyes looking without being penetrated, "the atmosphere, somewhat melancholy, which distinguish it from nature, although it has been committed. "

Aurelio Guirao, inspired by the work of Cayetano, wrote the following poem:

Secanos del Sureste,

Campos de Cartagena.

La sed sobre los ojos

de quien, lento, los mira.

 

Pero cabe el prodigio:

Sacarlos de la hondura

de un alma rebosante de jugo abalanzado,

de redentoras líneas y de pastas fundiéndose.

 

Rosas, grosor caliente, carne etérea.

Grises para tocar lomos de aire.

Azules coagulados, espesores

de un más allá en el tacto.

 

Montes de Cartagena,

Solanas del Sureste,

renegridas.

 

Pero cabe el prodigio:

Verdes manchados de carmín u ocre.

Alguna que otra planta, ralos árboles

-arropados de verdes en otoño o caqui militar-

en el paisaje imponen disciplina

de distancias y ritmo.

 

Violeta inmediatez impenetrable

con su perfume abierto a tangibles trasmundos.

 

Un sobrio discendir

-a veces, a escapadas desbordado-

poda, equilibra, ordena,

inventa la mirada

nuestro paso resume

en robustez dichosa, en luz, alfombra

para meter debajo

el erial arañante

y desvaído como vida humana.

 

 

Tras la muerte de Toledo Puche, su obra ha seguido vigente y ha motivado la necesidad de realización de importantes exposiciones retrospectivas en la Galería Efe Serrano (año 1998), en el Museo de Siyâsa (año 2000), en la Bienal de Florencia (año 2001), en el centro de arte Iglesia de San Esteban (año 2002) y  en los dos últimos años en la Galería Romea3 de Murcia y en Sala Cultural de la fundación Cajamurcia en Madrid.

En la citada exposición de la Bienal de Florencia de 2001 Toledo Puche obtuvo el “Premio Lorenzo el Magnífico a la Memoria â€�, llegándole tarde pero justamente el reconocimiento internacional que su obra merecía.

E ra un artista digno de pasar a la Historia no sólo de Cieza (su patria chica) sino de ámbitos geográficos mucho más amplios.

Como suele pasar demasiado a menudo con los grandes hombres, su mayor reconocimiento ha llegado cuando él ya no está físicamente con nosotros.

Desde el año 2004 el Ayuntamiento de Cieza, junto a la Asociación “Pueblo y Arteâ€�, convoca el Certamen Internacional de Pintura Toledo Puche, que es otro justo homenaje que se le rinde por todos los artistas que han concursado en él y por el pueblo que lo vio nacer.

Recientemente, en la Plaza de las Cortes Españolas de Cieza, se ha erigido un monumento a su memoria en forma de monumental escultura obra del artista Salvador Susarte.

 

Juan Joaquín Salmerón

Exhibition curator

Source: Joaquín Salmerón Juan