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Icons and Religious Imagery in the Regional Centre for Handicrafts (04/04/2012)

The CEO of Crafts and the Councillor for Tourism officially inaugurated this afternoon the sample, which includes works by artisans Mariano Hernandez and Maria del Mar Blázquez and be open until April 27

The general manager of Consumer Affairs, Commerce and Handicrafts, Maria Dolores Alarcon, and the Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina, opened today at the Regional Centre for Handicrafts of Cartagena, the exhibition jointly organized by the Ministry of Universities and Research Company which includes religious works made ​​by craftsmen Mariano Hernandez and Maria del Mar García Blázquez Martínez, in the activities organized by the Regional Centres of Craft during the month of April Month of religious imagery.

The exhibition, which brings together the exhibition Icons, Windows to Eternity, Mariano Hernandez, and religious imagery, Maria del Mar Blázquez, visit until 27 April, Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:30 to 20:30.

Also, is scheduled for this April, a workshop called Monta thumbnail Easter you little step, given by the artisan Joseph Simon, in which attendees can make their own way of Easter.

This workshop is scheduled to perform April 20 at the Regional Centre Craft Cartagena.

It has a limited capacity of fifteen people and lasted two hours and a cost of six dollars per person.

Remember also that this Holy Week, particularly from 4 to 8 April in the Port of Cartagena with, it celebrates the Artisan shows the city of Cartagena with the participation of 15 artisans from the region of Murcia.

ICONS, WINDOWS TO ETERNITY

The craftsman iconographer, Mariano Hernandez Garcia, author of the works included in this exhibition, part of the Spanish Association of Varoslav icon of Madrid, and has the lead Craft Workshop Mhega the city of Murcia.

Since the seventies, he began his vocation as a craftsman of icons, making his first master gilders tables in Cuenca, Rome and Madrid.

His interest in education led him to conduct training courses in areas of vital importance to the world of iconography as Russia and Greece.

This craftsman, who combines his job with the parish priest, has done restoration work, gilding, polychrome altarpieces and religious preservation of various parishes in Cuenca, Rome and Murcia.

The icon is more than just a religious image is a sacred image intended to represent the invisible through the visible, it influences converge Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian shaping a new artistic language.

The figures shown are static, frontal, reverse perspective, the dimensions are marked by the hierarchy.

The icons are part of a surreal aura of light that symbolizes his divine character.

IMAGINERÃ A RELIGIOUS

The artisan Maria del Mar Blázquez Martínez, manager of the Workshop Blázquez, has carefully selected a number of sculptures, carved in wood or made ​​of high quality clay policrómica.

The Sculpture Workshop Blázquez was founded by Don Domingo Carrasco Blázquez, who has been in the art of sculpture and restoration classic-baroque one of the most important figures in the Region of Murcia.

His daughter, Maria del Mar Blázquez craft, with a purification technique and an absolute dedication has ensured that the workshop has numerous awards Blázquez.

The sculpture artisan workshop follows a noble tradition Blázquez crafts using natural materials, specializing in religious imagery, wood carvings, enlienzados, images of clothing, imagery and restoration of the altarpieces, gold, water, fine gold and silver fake .

The sculptures selected for this exhibition are La Piedad, The Christ of Medina, bust of Sorrows, Ã ngel Salzillo bust, bust bust of Mary Magdalene and Christ accompanying sketch of the Fall, sketch of the prayer in the garden, sketch the sacrament, the Good Shepherd Child, bust of a Roman soldier, the Risen Christ, two Sallones and Fuensanta and certain pictures.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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