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The first Miradas Jorge Alió Foundation Competition was created in 1998 of the works of a hundred artists from Alicante, who exhibited at the IFA during the Congress of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology. twenty-five years laterthis biennial call for painting, with thirteen national editions It is ten internationalattracted more than 2,500 artistswho have participated since 27 countrieshas already awarded more than 70 works is performed 20 exhibitions traveling, three of them in Italy.
Miradas celebrates its first quarter century with a major exhibition curated by Juana Maria Balsalobre which occupies the entire municipal hall of the Alicante Marketopened yesterday with 91 artistic pieces who always try to show “the expressiveness of vision” or provide “a visual meaning”as the professor and Jorge Alió highlighted yesterday.
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The competition, whose basis is the communion between science and art to “raise awareness about the importance of eye health and blindness prevention», added the director of the competition and president of the Alió Foundation, Maria Lopezconsolidated itself in the artistic scene as encounter with undoubted power of attractionwhich each year brings together the work of more than a hundred creators -many repeat-valued by a prestigious jurythis year chaired by the theorist and art critic Alfonso de la Torrespecialist in Spanish contemporary art, who considered this competition a “rarity” and “an honor” to preside over it.
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De la Torre appealed to the “mystery of the look” in this year's award-winning works, announced yesterday during the exhibition, which are housed in the Explanada room with the finalists, together with other 34 photographic works in the Tabarca room (in the first exhibition of this discipline), in addition to other 13 honor paintings and international awards in the Luceros room and 9 children's drawings in the entrance hall. Curator Balsalobre highlighted that in all of them “a symbiosis between visual health, prevention of blindness and pictorial creation” prevails.
awarded this year
Today the unique prize from the first edition of 1998 was passed on to four main prizes, two mentions honorific titles and the selection of three works for the international competitionwhich will be regulated next July, in addition to the Professional and Artistic Trajectory Awardwhich this year was for the artist from Cartagena Angel Mateo Charris with your work The ophthalmologist's dream, whose name joins those of Luis Feito, Polín Laporta, José Mª Yturralde or Eduardo Naranjo, among others. His figure was glossed by critic José Luis Martínez Meseguer.
He Miradas Award 2023 It went to the Murcian artist Manuel Páez Alvarez for his work leucippus with an air of Dutch painting, as highlighted by De la Torre; the UMH professor José Antonio Hinojos received the Jorge Alió Foundation Award with his “velazqueña” work Refractive errors ; Adrian Munoz Espouy I took the Best Emerging Artist Award for your Insight, made in watercolor and graphite; It is Natan Tarrago Terradelaswith 80 percent visual impairment, was recognized with the Best Artist with Functional Diversity Award for his work the half naked. “The disease limits my creative space, but not my ability to create”, says the artist.
The honorable mention to best composition went to Ginesa Martinez Lópezwith Down syndrome, to the eye that fliesin which he reinterprets a work by Eduardo Naranjo, and the mention of most original techniquefor Manuel Fernando Adrianzen with your optical illusion selfies.
In this edition, more than 20,000 euros in prizes.