Galleries. María M. Almagro and Carlos Salas are in charge of Ginevra and LaLuz, newly opened spaces that connect work, audiences and clients
María M. Almagro, owner of the Ginevra de Murcia Gallery, at 11 Plaza San Julián, explains that the term she used to baptize the space is an “Italian name with a Mediterranean feel that means ‘wave of light'”. Oddly enough, Carlos Salas has named LaLuz Mediterranean Art a new gallery, located at 2 Alejandro Séiquer street in Murcia. Two openings in less than a year that try to be new windows on art through works full of color and life that pay homage to the rooms they temporarily house.
Almagro, an interior designer, is convinced that “art brightens up our lives, brings us happiness and makes us remember sensations and evoke what we want”. That is why he decided to take the step of creating Ginevra.
“Murcia needs a little more art,” says the gallery owner, who sees opportunities in the city for this kind of business. “I think institutions like the Murcia City Council are doing a good job and they are willing to promote culture so that people can better understand and appreciate art from different fields,” he explains.
“The gallery is based on beauty and nature.” This is how Almagro defines the theme of its premises, where you can find works from different disciplines of artists who exhibit their creations locally, nationally and internationally: «Prestigious names who have exhibited in New York, France, Italy… and more local people who also have a long background and professional recognition». Between the walls hang Ana Perpinyá’s oil paintings, the collages with which Carmen Casanova reinterprets Velázquez’s ‘Las meninas’, Juan Belando’s steel horses and José Sorer’s metal turned into ‘silk’. Daniel Marín, Myriam Toledo, Ana Alcaraz, Eusebio López Cos, Carmen Casanova, Esperanza Dòrs, Amparo Alegría and Verónica Mars are other names occupying this 150m2.
A set that allows the gallery owner to include both pieces for “collectors or people who really love art” and more affordable works for anyone “with a sense of creation”. In short, María M. Almagro sends the message that anyone who wants to can buy art. An idea that Carlos Salas also agrees with: “Art is not something cheap, but it does not have to be expensive either,” explains the UMU professor of Art History and gallery owner about a month ago about an “exciting” project in an area that always interested him. A choice he elaborates on: «I would have liked to be an artist, but I have no skills. My contribution to the art world so far has been passing on my knowledge to my students in class, writing about it… and now I complete my contribution by connecting the artist’s work with the client and with the art lover, something for which the figure of the gallerist is fundamental».
LaLuz Mediterranean Art was the answer to the search for “a positive name that refers to optimism and joy, which is something that is needed in this day and age,” says Salas, who also refers to that ‘surname’ with Mediterranean essence. “We wanted to connect space with Murcia and that relationship of a long history between the different peoples that have existed on the international shores of the Mediterranean”, a connection that is reflected “in visual artists over the centuries” and that exactly they have light in common.
LaLuz, a place with different differentiated spaces “which offers a lot of possibilities”, says the gallery owner, is hosting his first two exhibitions. The works of the Murcian Manuel Pérez occupy the main space of the room. ‘The sea walks with me’ is the name of the show. “On this occasion, his usual explosion of color and vitality takes place in a series of new canvases that take center stage in the sea and in the surrounding landscape,” explains Salas.
‘The own habitat’ is the name of the second exhibition, in which Virginia Bernal presents «a world of vivid images, with an articulate memory of figures and silhouettes inhabited by scenes with intertwining timelines; captured by the author over the years.” A proposal captured “through one of the oldest alternative photographic media: the cyanotype.”
Source: La Verdad
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