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The parish church of San Francisco Javier hosts, from today until January 6, the exhibition "Angelorum Cultus", a tribute to the figure of the angel in Bethlehem and in Spanish imagery of the second half of the twentieth century to the present days.
This was explained by David Martinez, artistic director of the Association, which fosters and promotes belenística craftsmanship and tradition, deeply rooted in the town of San Javier, and has organized the exhibition along with the parish church of San Javier.
David Martinez presented the exhibition in the city of San Javier, accompanied by the Councillor for Culture, Inmaculada García, who said "love that place members of the association for its huge work," museum director parish, José Ballester, and the parish priest of San Javier, Jose Leon, who made an invitation to visit the exhibition "magnificent, well crafted and original."
Ballester was delighted to inaugurate a new exhibition, "which is one of the main functions of the parish church," and recalled the success and quality of the previous year have each received thousands of visitors, like last Christmas drew 9,000 visitors.
"Cultus Angelorum" consists of nine scenes with figures from renowned artisans in scenarios that have been developed entirely by members of the Friends of the San Javier Bethlehem inspired by nineteenth-century Romanticism, said David Martinez.
Architectural ruins, nature overwhelmed and allegories frame the different scenes of the exhibition conceived as a closed and collected when they bring dynamism angels related sculptures, belonging to collectors, institutions, sculptors or their heirs with the Association contacted to mount this exposure that has taken almost a year of work.
David Martinez explained that the exhibition also serves as a meeting point for contemporary artists whose work continues to bring together the now as the master José Sánchez Lozano and Francisco Liza disciple, both closely linked to school salzillesca, and the figure of Antonio Carrión, who was the restorer of the church of San Javier after the Civil War.
The footage shows an evolution from the Neapolitan crib nativity figures like José Luis Mayo or Seville José Ángel Oviedo, whose artistic production is as vital to the new artistic trends Bethlehem said Martinez.
The exhibition opens on Thursday December 20 at 20:30.
in the parish church of San Francisco Javier, with the opening of Christmas pronounce the local journalist, Alexia Salas, and baroque music concert will offer "Antiqua Guitar Ensemble".
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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