The Moj\u00e1car La Fuente Municipal Art Centre has inaugurated an exhibition of painting and sculpture titled \u201cLuz del Sur\u201d that brings together more than 40 paintings and close to a dozen sculptures by students of the Clemente Gerez painting school and the sculptor Juan Alonso.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\tA large public attended the inauguration, among them Raquel Belmonte, acting Moj\u00e1car Council Culture Councillor, Francisco Garc\u00eda Cerd\u00e1, also local authority acting Councillor and the locality\u2019s next Mayor, as well as Mar\u00eda Gracia Alarc\u00f3n.
\n\tThe artists making up this exhibition are Julia Poves, Michele Koster, Jocelyn Frith, Elena de Salinas, Mariat Bernab\u00e9, Mariam O\u00b4Dwyer and Marcela Gonz\u00e1lez, all of them students of the F\u00e9lix Clemente Gerez painting school.
\n\tFeliz Clemente Gerez is the founder of \u201cMojacar Arte\u201d, the name of the painting workshop to which the students exhibiting in Moj\u00e1car today belong, although the usual group that attends his classes is larger.
\n\tA well-known painter in Almer\u00eda, with an international impact, he has exhibited throughout the world. Despite having numerous awards and being in demand in many places, he has not left the Mediterranean: not Moj\u00e1car nor his native Garrucha, only leaving the area on the days necessary for his exhibitions.
\n\tF\u00e9lix Clemente maintains, and he\u2019s not the only one, that the light of Almer\u00eda is exceptional. A light which he interprets in his works and which is characteristic of it. He is a versatile artist, who has developed his artistic curiosity in sculpture, literature, music and theatre.
\n\tHe comments with satisfaction on his links with the sea: \u201cThe shoreline of the beach was my first painting block and the waves of sea my first draft.\u201d It\u2019s not surprising that his first steps in painting \u201csmelled of the sea\u201d, since as a child the wall of the room where his father kept his fishing tackle was his first canvas.
\n\tFor Clemente Gerez, the students who put together \u201cLuz del Sur\u201d are very well prepared, with a high level, although their training continues in relation to the understanding of a work: in short, whether it has harmony, composition, framing and soul.
\n\tComplementing this exhibition are the sculptures of Juan Alonso, a very well-known and well-loved sculptor in Moj\u00e1car due to his shop \u201cIndalos Juan\u201d. It is a reference point in the municipality for craftwork, sculpture, and of course, the indalos, all made from stone.
\n\tMacael-born, he has been in Moj\u00e1car for 23 years. Here, he says, he has found his place, and it is where he wants to be, although he frequently goes back to Macael in search of the raw material for his works: marble, and if possible Macael white, his preferred stone.
\n\t Reluctant to exhibit his work, he is not an exhibition regular, which makes his participation in this exhibition even more valuable. Juan Alonso is an intimist artist. A stonemason by profession, stone is his life. He gives demonstrations, only in his shop, and has been a master stonemason in Almer\u00eda.
\n\t His work is sentiments that slip through the hands when he creates a sculpture. He starts to work and his sensations lead to the final result; to give life and form to his art.
\n\tLuz del Sur will remain open to the public in the La Fuente Municipal Art Centre until the 30th June. Entry is free, and it can be visited Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 2pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Moj\u00e1car La Fuente Municipal Art Centre has inaugurated an exhibition of painting and sculpture titled \u201cLuz del Sur\u201d that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}