Mutxamel The artist, if they did not, it was born nearly eighty foot-one. The difficult birth was almost unable to leave their arms as they were broken at the event. Thanks to the care received, the limbs returned to their original state and Arcadi good long after, he was able to use them wisely in ceramic work. And also, to play Mozart and Beethoven on the piano, one of his favorite hobbies and with which, from time to time, happy evening to their friends.
Arcadi, good movie buff, preferences saved between a great movie by William Wyler, "The Best Years of Our Lives". In case you do not remember, is the return of three soldiers in World War their homes. Although at first all are tributes and smiles, people soon forget them and their circumstances. The film, an American director, a Jew born in Germany and studied violin in Paris, was hailed by critics at the time and won seven Oscars.
As in the film, the 2008 can be also one of the best years in the life of artist Bonalba. Have been the months in which he rounded out his idea of \u200b\u200b"Sheepfold", a temporary fence that are livestock herders and Arcadi has become a permanent garrison fold where modern man, who is considered the center of the universe without realizing that is enclosed by its own limitations, which can never jump. Many legends in all languages remember the words Sonsona Nearby, the radical nationalists, extreme religious, neo-cons, bigots, I love my fold, you love your fold, he loves his pasture.
This fence will be part of the anthology that opens next Wednesday at the Museum of the University of Alicante directed by Mauro Hernandez. The exhibition, coordinated by Matthew wisely and Piqueras and the collaboration of the CAM, will bring the work of past and present of a great artist who, like the protagonists of the film, Wyler, sometimes when the homesickness of his solitude Bonalba it invades, it is considered a little out of play and misses Madriles intense life in the past.
Two days later, on Friday next week, the Club INFORMATION, attentive to our cultural life, will open an exhibition of drawings and engravings that this year has prepared the artist on the folds. For if anything is missing, the closure will be used in the MUA to submit a Pere Miquel Campos talks with Arcadi, promising juicy revelations about his character and personality.
This past summer, the artist went to collect a personal invitation Chile Michelle Bachelet, president of the country. There he was in for a pleasant surprise: not only attended the reopening of the International Museum of the Resistance Salvador Allende in the plaza outside the La Moneda Palace, crowded by a huge crowd, but one of his works, belonging to the "architecture of fear", was shown between the pieces selected for inclusion on a permanent basis along with Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies, Joan Miró, Chillida, Millares, Andreu Alfaro, Manolo Valdes and Eusebio Sempere. The event was present, but with a greatly reduced health, Allende's widow, Hortensia Bussi. The next day, the artist was invited to Alicante tea at the private residence of Isabel Allende, daughter of the president and deputy to the Chilean Congress. And is that Arcadi had much to do with international artistic solidarity towards the regime of Salvador Allende. He, as president of the Association of Artists of Spain, received with enthusiasm the idea of \u200b\u200bMoreno Galván and immediately the world's leading artists began donating a piece for the occasion. Arcadi remembers with bitterness when they arrived in Santiago as part of these works had been Pinochet's coup, and as if by magic, many of them disappeared, destroyed by barbarism, or in the mansions of the oligarchy.
In this unforgettable year, Arcadi has opened exhibitions in Madrid and Catalonia, lectured and taught cursos. Por ejemplo, en el Pazo de Cultura de Pontevedra, junto a la ceramista griega Teodora Chorafras. Allí, además, recordó viejos tiempos con su amigo Isaac Díaz Pardo, alma máter de la fábrica de porcelana en Sargadelos. Pero lo que de verdad sigue entusiasmando al artista mutxamelero son sus clases de los jueves a los chavales y chavalas del colegio Manuel Antón, en su pueblo. Una vez a la semana, Arcadi comparte arroz con los profes del centro, se echa una partida de dominó mientras se debate sobre lo divino (menos) y lo humano (más) y, a las tres en punto de la tarde, a trabajar con los más jóvenes. Les desvela los secretos de la cerámica y de la importancia del barro, sobre su conexión cultural with the history and customs of civilization. Conjugated conducting mural, "The Musicians" by Picasso, for example, teaching that no man ceramics could not return from space: When the spacecraft enters Earth's atmosphere, he explains, there is more friction of 2,000 degrees, a temperature hold any metal without melting. Only, he insists, ceramics manipulated with silicon carbide and titanium as a base, can resist.
This year languishing, Arcadi Blasco received and will receive a lot of joy, all the sea of \u200b\u200bfair, but I am sure, his greatest satisfaction is the to have gained a well deserved title: professor emeritus of public school Mutxamel Manuel Antón. I said, this man was born to walk.
Emilio Soler is Professor of Modern History at the UA.
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