The veteran artist from Ciez, just turned 90 years old, brings together 40 works from different periods in the Siyâsa in which he shows his enthusiasm for the oriental
Pedro Avellaneda has just turned 90 years old. Nobody would say. Gymnastics every day, walks through the center of Cieza and a good flat of wine from time to time. It is the secret to reaching a nonagenarian healthier than an apple. Well, and something else: get excited with the poetry of Charles Pierre Baudelaire, with the music of Vivaldi and with the wonderful surroundings of the river, orchard and mountains that surround the capital of the Vega Alta del Segura.
‘Anthological + Light and color’
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Artist
Pedro Avellaneda. -
Where
At the Siyâsa de Cieza Museum. -
When
Until November 21.
Now all you need is a piece of cardboard or wood, paint and a brush to illuminate the mixture of impressionism, expressionism and even realism that Avellaneda gives us with each of his works. Behind him he accumulated dozens of awards and exhibitions, but the veteran painter from Ciez was missing his great exhibition, the ‘Anthology + Light and Color’, which just a week ago he opened at the Siyâsa Museum and which can be seen in the two main rooms from the old Casino de Cieza until the 21st of this coming November.
“It doesn’t seem from here”
In it we can see paintings painted by Pedro Avellaneda decades ago, others more recent and even his last four canvases: those of the ‘Four seasons’ inspired by the music of the great Venetian genius. «If we see the painting of the ‘Spring’ we can distinguish the flowers, butterflies and many more things of this season, but they are still ideas that I have in my head and that I am reflecting on in the paintings, perhaps due to the great enthusiasm I feel for oriental painting ”, explains Avellaneda as he describes each of the around 40 works on display. “The Almadenes Canyon is something majestic, it does not seem to be from here, but we have it so close that we can intuit it from our homes”, he tells us when we look up at his two works of such a characteristic place. An enthusiasm that is also reflected in the eyes of the veteran painter when he points out other works, perhaps less well known, but born from other moments of his long existence.
Tailor by trade, but painter by vocation
Pedro Avellaneda Baño was born in Cieza in 1931. In painting he is a born self-taught person, since his father, a tailor by profession, wanted him to inherit this trade. To do this, he traveled to Barcelona to study and there he met the painter Joaquín Asensio, who told him that he should dedicate himself to painting. However, his obedience to his father led him to obtain the gold medal in his studies at the Academy of Art and Clothing in Barcelona, a circumstance that was crucial to return to Cieza and continue with the family saga dedicated to tailoring.
Despite everything, Avellaneda assures that he has not stopped painting a single day of his life and proof of this are his more than 1,500 paintings with a wide thematic range and various techniques such as oil, watercolor or acrylics. And far from hanging the pictorial habits, he is already thinking about his next exhibition. «It will be dedicated to music. I have a good number of works inspired by classics of the best sounds in history, and others that I have in mind and that I want to do as long as the top one wants to ».
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