The great painter Juan Ismael is close to the midlands of the island. Municipal Auditorium Exhibition The stew, coordinated by the Department of Culture and Heritage of the Municipality of Vega de San Mateo (Gran Canaria), presented on Friday at 20:30 hours, a sample of the important artist Juan Ismael canary surreal. In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Cultural Heritage and the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, as well as the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), the stew will showcase a selection of the work of this renowned artist under the title John Ismael in CAAM collection.
By way of overview, Ismael Ernesto González Mora, Juan Ismael, born in The Oliva (Fuerteventura) on December 19, 1907 and died in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Gran Canaria) on August 24, 1981.
is one of the founders of the field insular complex, multidisciplinary path of exceptional talent who addressed the painting, drawing, printmaking, graphic illustration, photomontage and poetry activities and essays.
Young Juan Ismael is receiving early artistic training and with 16 years in the School of Arts and Crafts in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, island where the family moved when still a child. After the death of his father works at a photo lab in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he gained technical skills in photography. At just 20 years, Juan Ismael contact the School Luján Pérez, laboratory for artistic experimentation, which constitutes a critical character, austere and committed to social and cultural environment. Travel along the Peninsula and is linked, in Madrid or Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe strong and weak cultural life after the 30 and 40. Attend classes in ceramics, paints and exhibits his works in various private workshops for teachers.
Involved in the founding of facilitators of the arts groups, both local and state level: ADLAN (Friends of the Arts News, 1935), PIC (Independent Painters Canarios, 1947), LADAC (Archers of Contemporary Art, 1950), was very attentive to the multiple approaches today attest to the validity of the historical avant-garde art. Transit
then emerging indigenous movements, surreal, magical realism and metaphysical painting, becoming one of the major reference of surrealism in the Canaries. Universal's contemporary figures recognized the movement, would be sized equal if the historical and geographical situation of his life and his time would have become otherwise. Despite the lack of understanding of the environment, to exile in Venezuela (1959-1966) and the precarious means and opportunities to register their artistic production in the European tradition with which it is related, in this historical review of his work further strengthens its powerful plastic presence. Creator
equally fruitful in poetic expression and graphic illustration, he was involved in projects such as publishing houses and literary magazines Cardboard (1930), Post (1945), Planas Poetry (1949), Alisio (1953), Provisional Inventories (1970) , Mafasca for Bibliophiles (1977), Paloma Atlantic (1977), Roles Reversed (1980).
Committed to the social and pedagogic of artistic education, gave conferences, wrote critical texts published during his lifetime and only part of his poetry, The Air I sticks (1946), A road, a poem (1953) and Villa O'Gorman (1977). In 1992 the poet and professor Eugenio Padorno released his complete poetry, prepared and edited by John himself Ishmael, with the title Die side.
The exhibition will be presented in the stew on Friday 25 February at 20:30 hours, at the opening, until 13 March. The opening ceremony was attended by Mayor of the local corporation, Gregorio González Vega, and the Councillor for Culture and Heritage, Gloria Santana Ramírez, and Councillor Mrs Cultural, Historical and Cultural Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Luz Marina Rodriguez Caballero.
In the words of the Councillor for Culture and Heritage, Gloria Santana Ramírez, "all an opportunity has been given to the Vega de San Mateo to host in our municipal exhibition hall is an example of this renowned artist.