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Caja Mediterráneo has donated to the municipality of Torre Pacheco a sculpture that represents the traditional Trinitarian-Berber parties celebrating at this location.
The sculpture by Peter Jordan Almarza Murcia represents Fray Juan Gil, one of the Trinidadians who took care of Miguel de Cervantes free of pirates.
Regional President Caja Mediterráneo, Angel Martinez, and Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, inaugurated this afternoon the sculpture in bronze, patinated brown leather which is about 190 centimeters tall and is placed on a stone pedestal five feet tall.
Fray Juan Gil is the person the September 19, 1850 brought together the 500 gold ducats Barbary pirates demanded that Cervantes apprehended when he returned to Spain after attending the Battle of Lepanto.
The pirates asked for this high amount of money to free Miguel de Cervantes because he took a prominent person of the Court of Spain, finding in his possession letters of commendation signed by Don Juan de Austria and the Duke of Sesa highlighting its value Lepanto.
Cervantes spent five years in prison in Algiers, until Fray Juan Gil managed to raise money for his ransom.
To remember this story the sculptor Peter Jordan has represented the Trinity holding in his left hand as a symbol of liberation, wearing shackles Miguel de Cervantes.
Regional President Caja Mediterráneo, Angel Martinez, explained that the agency wanted to make this gift to Torre Pacheco because "Caja Mediterráneo is deeply rooted, for history, for affection and common projects, with each and every one of the municipalities in this region.
The linkage of Torre Pacheco Mediterranean Fund and its inhabitants is the oldest and strongest, which is evident in social and economic life in the city in areas such as the continued support to the development of programming IFEPA showground.
For this reason, "we wanted with this amazing sculpture leave a testimony of the indelible bond that links us to this city and its people."
Martinez recalls that "Mediterranean Fund we believe that art is the best way to discover and bring different civilizations, and very special sculpture to impose a mark on a place."
Therefore, culture in its various forms, has been and remains one of the traditional axes of action of Caja Mediterranean.
The mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, Caja Mediterráneo thanked for their collaboration and support in the construction of Torre-Pacheco with the contribution of this sculpture and other acts carried out, such as organizing exhibitions and publications books.
All these are symptoms of the continuing contribution that the Fund has with society Mediterraneo pachequera to create a better future.
A future that is built with this sculpture that looks backward to the origin of the history of Torre-Pacheco, and that no past can not be present, nor future.
Peter Jordan Almarza Curriculum
Natural Cartagena (January 1978), enter 16 in the College of Arts and Crafts Murcia (now School of Art and Design), where he obtained the title of Technician of Art and Design.
There he perfected his technique in the modeling and shaping of the hand of Professor Don Dionisio Paje and sculptors such as Don José González and also completed his training in wrought iron with Don Victoriano Salas-material that feels great interest since its inception, as that his paternal grandfather dedicated his career to forge.
During this period made ironwork ranging from sculpture to functional projects, such as forged staircase hotel Alfonso XIII (Cartagena) or making forged tools to carve marble, which would be used later by the schools of arts and crafts Murcia, Altea, Valencia, etc..
Soon became interested in the work of sculptors from Murcia, such as Antonio Campillo, Elisa Seiquer, José Planes, Pepe Gonzalez or Mark Molera, and combines work as an apprentice in the workshops with the investigation of new trends in landscape Murcia, Miguel sharing study Fructuoso Nicholas and working with artists such as Manuel Pérez or designer Miguel Angel Martinez.
In 2007 he traveled to Germany to deepen the relationship between sculpture, architecture and applied arts, noting, for it in the work of designers Wropius Walter and Marcel Breuer, but mainly focuses on the sculpture by Gerhard Marcks and George Kolbe.
Among his most important works is the altarpiece of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Valencia (polychrome wood carving and gold), conducted during 2007-2008.
He has also done a portrait of Don Andrés Cánovas (Balsicas), located in the square that bears his name, and the modeling of San Juan Evangelista, for the confraternity of San Juan (Torres de Cotillas).
Throughout his career he has also won several awards, among which the first prize Creajoven in 1998 and 2002 (Murcia) and the Medal of Honor, Sculpture Prize of the Chamber of Commerce (Murcia, 2004).
It has also been the Spanish representative at the Ninth Biennial Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Rome, 1999).
Currently, he combines his creative work with the protection of emerging artists in a matter of technical and plastic art.
Among his collaborations include:
In sculpture, has been actively involved, among others, in conducting monument 'apotheosis', Lola Fernandez Arcas (Lorca) slab models for 'Wind', by José Luis Cacho, forgings for sculptures in cycles, with José González Marcos ; rehabilitation of parts of Juan Gonzalez Moreno, restoration of the Virgen del Carmen (eighteenth century), the Sanctuary of the Virgen del Rosario de Hellin, San Antonio Abad, the beginning of the century, and the group of angels Hellín Patron of Fernández sculptor Andes.
In scenery (among others): National Theatre (José Tamayo), "Nabucco" by Verdi and "Song of Love and Drugs" by Albert Plá. In literature: "Dog meat", with Alberto Barbera Grief (Barcelona); "The Road" (Cormac McCarthy).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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