An exhibition, in which 23 friends of the Cartagena artist and firefighter who died in 2020 participate, pays tribute to “an atypical painter”
The Sala Alta del Almudí houses until December 15 the exhibition ‘Marcos Amorós. El painter del blues’, a collective demonstration organized with the collaboration of the Cartagena City Council, with more representative works of this Murcian artist, as well as personal objects. A disciple of the painters of the Valencian School and in love with the oriental culture, Amorós (Cartagena 1959-2020) was the founder of the ArtNostrum collective of Mediterranean Plastic Artists. 23 colleagues and artists with whom Amorós had the most relationship and in the that his style was present. «Amorós was an atypical painter, as are true artists. A firefighter by profession, guitarist and a splendid portraitist and landscape painter, which gives us a curious mixture of daring, music and realism, “said the mayor of Murcia, José Antonio Serrano, who attended the inauguration to accompany the painter’s widow, Ana Maria Gomez.
The collaborating artists are Emilio Barrachina, Petrus Borgia, María José Caride, Sofía Gea, Gaby Guillén, Rafael Hortal, María José Cárceles, Jesús Inglés, Kraser, Javier Lorente, Luis Marino, Piedad Martínez Torres, Carlos Montero, Belén Orta, Álvaro Peña, Cristóbal Pérez, Pedro Diego Pérez Casanova, Fernando Sáenz de Elorrieta, Rosana Sitcha, Antonio Tapia, Salvador Torres, Antonio Vidal Máiquez and Silvia Viñao. The mayor of Culture Pedro García Rex highlighted “the coordination work” of the Plastic Arts Area to launch this “draft” exhibition.
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