Daniel Pernas Daniel Pernas was born in Vigo (Galicia) in 1979. At the age of 10 his mother, who was a schoolteacher at his school, found out Daniel was artistic. Nevertheless he went to study medicine in Santiago, because his parents saw a better future in becoming a doctor than an artist. From 2005 he lived […]
Feminine figure (1947) Daniel Bañuls Martínez (1905 – 1947) was een artist from Alicante, famous of his drawings and sculptures. This feminine figure was carved in stone and white marble in 1947. The sculpture is a tribute from Alicante city to Carlos Arniches Barreda (1866-1943) a Spanish comediographer. This sculpture was Daniel´s last work, which
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Fanchi Art Francisco Moya (1971) was born in Huelva, Andalusia. When Fanchi was a young boy he was already making drawings. It´s in his genes, his grandmother was an artist too and his brother is a sculptor. He graduated at the Artes y Oficios Escuela León in Huelva. In 2006 he moved to Alicante. Above
Fuente de levante Daniel Bañuls Martínez (1905 – 1947) was een artist from Alicante, famous of his drawings and sculptures. “Fuente de Levante” at la Plaza de los Luceros was finished in 1930. The fountain is a sculptural set of artificial stone that contains bas-reliefs of oriental female figures and is surrounded by four identical
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Maternidad (1952) “Maternidad” (Motherhood) from painter Juana Francés (1952) in the collection of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Above: “Composición número 39” (1959). Juana Francés (Alicante 1924 – Madrid 1990) was a Spanish painter of internationaal fame. Her works were exhibited in London, Brussels, Venice and New York as one of the
ISOLDA ESPLA (1929) Isolda Esplá is the half sister of composer oscar Esplá, a good friend of painter Emilio Varela Isabel. Emilio Varela Isabel (1887-1951) lived and died in the same house in Alicante´s San Francisco neighborhood, where he was born. He learned drawing and painting, passing through the studios and workshops of artists based in
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Icarus “El regreso de Icaro con su ala de surf” (The return of Icarus with his surf wing) by artist Esperanza d´Ors which has been in the port of Alicante since 1999. Esperanza d´Ors is a sculptor, born in Madrid in 1949. After studying Hispanic Literature she wrote for magazines like Marie Claire, Rialp and
Mirando al mar Mirando al Mar (Looking at the Sea) by artist Vicente Ferrero Molina was inaugurated in 1999 when Sr. D. Luis Diaz Alperi was mayor of Alicante city. Vicente Ferrero Molina was born in 1944 in Banyeres de Mariola and studied at El Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia. He
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