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The local chief executive, Bartolomé Hernández, and Councillor of Culture, Francisco Miguel Martínez, opened last weekend the exhibition "My Birds in Eagles" the renowned artist Gustavo Cartagena Penalver, who attended the ceremony accompanied by some family members as well aquiline as painter Manuel Coronado and art critic, Antonio Martínez, with different guests.
The exhibition includes more than twenty large paintings that are part of his latest work, a job that will be open until the 31st of May, except Mondays in Room Temporary Exhibition Hall and Congress "Infanta Elena" in time from 18:15 to 21 hours.
While still a child, Gustavo moved to Palma de Mallorca, which already began to excel in the art of painting, winning a national drawing contest with only 13 years.
At the age of 24 made his first shows, which have followed more than one hundred and fifty solo exhibitions and many other collective by individual countries.
He has painted more than four thousand paintings and has lived in Barcelona, ​​Paris, Brussels and Berlin, at which last place where he spent one of his most creative periods, twenty years in which the artist became internationally known and left even captured His work in the "Gustavo building" a grotesque monument with aluminum figures.
Since 1995 he has his studio "Son Turo" in Capdepera (Mallorca), designed by the architect José García Ruiz.
He is currently conducting the largest mural Balearic Dock for Cala Ratjada.
Gustavo has many fans around the world who believe the painter and love their colors and their characteristics poetic forms and literary titles.
The absurdity becomes real and the real absurdity, all part of his inspiration, even their own color spots often become vivid characters.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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