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The exhibition, which will be open until 22 June, entitled "70 springs and 50 years of creation" and contains about 200 works, including paintings, ceramics and sculptures, made by the famous artist.
The mayor of Eagle, Giménez Hernández Bartolomé and the Councillor for Culture and Heritage, Francisco Miguel Martínez, opened last night at the Auditorium and Congress Centre "Infanta Elena" a retrospective exhibition of renowned artist and aquiline Favorite Son of Eagles, Manuel Coronado , an exhibition will be open until June 22, entitled "70 springs and 50 years of creation."
The event was embraced by many authorities and guests who wanted to show his affection and admiration for the painter aquiline, coinciding with the name day of his seventieth birthday, among which were: the Mayor of Ibiza, Marienna Sanchez-Jauregui, the art critic Antonio Martinez, the journalist, Marisa Suan.
The exhibition, the artist has dedicated his cousin, Ginés Coronado, recently deceased, collects nearly 200 works, including paintings, ceramics and sculptures, which illustrates the warmth of the colors and the subtlety of brush Manuel Coronado.
During the opening ceremony, the mayor, Bartolome Hernandez, said "Manuel Coronado has always been the aquiline and his 70 years younger than ever, continues to work and peppering the world with his art from his home in the gorge of Teruel, converted in a real museum. "
Hernandez wanted to stress that "even knowing that whatever is done will always be insufficient to recognize the human worth of this distinguished professional and aquiline, aquiline Consistory organized this retrospective exhibition, as shown in the magnificent history of our illustrious countryman, recognized and valued around the world. "
Manuel Coronado was born in Eagle in the spring of 1942.
His childhood was marked by two decisive facts, so that gestate the figure of the artist we know today, the death of his father and the change of residence of his family.
In the postwar period, after the death of the patriarch, his mother Elizabeth moved to Mallorca with their children, where maternal grandparents resided.
Once there, Manolo becomes a restless young man, who quickly noted for his strong personality.
As he says "a childhood peppered with accomplishments and successes, but always under the protective wings of angels."
From a very early age, skating and fine arts were his two great passions, becoming prominent in each.
Special mention deserves its rapid upstroke as a painter, earning awards known as the Madrid and UNICEF and Figure Composition in the School of Arts and Crafts in Palma de Mallorca.
Distinctions which represented only the beginning of a prolific career that led Coronado to move to the Nordic countries, where he completed training as a painter and grew as a person.
This universal aquiline and has lived for art, exhibiting in some of the most prestigious museums in the world, while his paintings were acquired to form part of selected collections of paintings, while he was recognized with awards as important as the March Foundation The City of Palma or Murcia City.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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