An encouragement, a challenge and an honor. This is how he defines it painter Miguel Soro the experience of seeing that one of his creations is the image of the official poster of Cycling Tour of Catalonia 2023. Who will tell him, who went through all the categories of cycling when he ran until one day he decided to change the bike for the brush. native of Xativa (Valencia), Soro started cycling at the age of nine in cycling schools, and “I learned all the categories. He is a fast man who always wins races. And I was a part of itin the Spanish Selection who won first World Road Fund (1994, Ecuador)”explained this great cycling fan looking down at his work.
Like many young people Miguel Soro He dreams of success in cycling, “but in my time, everything was more complicated and there weren’t many teams. I spent two years in Portugal competing with a professional Portuguese team and finished my career in Italy. Did I enjoy that time? I did my best. You always want, but when you give everything you should be satisfied”.
Later, he became a self-taught painter, first of landscapes, keeping intact his passion for cycling, where he continued his main quality on the bicycle: “I am a fast runner and I also like quick painting. I enjoy”. Thanks to his art, his works were shown in California, Australia or Canadaas one of the artists claimed to have participated in the recognition for centenary of Fausto Coppi or within tribute of the Tour de France made at the Museum of Arts of Pau.
Two years have passed since I toyed with the possibility of painting the Volta poster, until it was fulfilled this year. It is both a great joy and also a responsibility. “When they proposed it to me, I said yes for the moment, but when I saw the album with all the historic Volta posters, with Barcelona, tapeI even thought about where I was going, but I gave my word, and in the end it was painting about cycling, which is my passion”.
First he thought of making a collage, then using a figure of record cyclist of the Volta, Mario Cañardo, or to French cyclist André Mahé that he was passionate about, but finally he chose Miquel Poblet“a sprinter like me”.
Growing up in a family with a cycling tradition, his friends idolized him Indurain or Delgado, but he is more than Coppi, Bartali, Binda“from the runners before, I really like classic cycling.”
Miguel Soro He came to compete in the amateur Alejandro Valverde, which he refers to as a reference in the world, and because of his popularity he is gradually receiving orders from more cyclists.
Tadej Pogacar he has a job and Marc Soler He also expressed an interest in seeing himself immortalized thanks to the imagination of a person who enjoys “a lot of people watching cycling. This is my life and I consider myself a cyclist who paints about cycling, so 90% of my work”.
Source: La Verdad
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