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The International Festival of Cante de las Minas de La Union today unveiled the poster for the LI Edition, a work by artist Pedro Cano Blanca is a landscape of 'Cabezo Rajao' unionense mining icon, and the flamenco festival will look more international all the way to its conclusion, which this year will be from 3 to 13 August.
The Court of the Regional Assembly Districts became, as usual, the ideal setting for a formal presentation where they missed numerous authorities as the President of the Assembly and several Members Celdrán Francisco regional director of Fine Arts Cultural Property, Enrique Ujaldón, the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, and the author of the work, the painter Pedro Cano.
No one was indifferent to the portrait of 'Cabezo Rajao' who wanted to capture Pedro Cano on the Festival poster, a tribute to the Sierra Minera which focuses specifically on the area Monsterrat Mine headframe, which at first sight makes highlighted very traditional elements in the region as a cast fireplace, a mining headframe and houses open for the miners.
The image also includes characteristic elements in the path figure of the author, as his special care of light, something accomplished with a reddish hue in the upper illustrating the evening, and will become blue and indigo as the view down, until you see red text with a font almagro "letters that take hold of each other."
In this regard, Pedro Cano explained that the poster is a "very popular, with a simple aesthetic where the most important makes its special light, to which he added that" has a some what should be the glorious moment, imbued with the smell of anise, coffee and smoke from the famous singers of the time, but gentle, cheerful. "
Cano, who acknowledged that he is "a real luxury to be this year the author of the Cartel del Cante de las Minas" in the background Chillida, Tapies, Miro, Asensio Sáez and others left in their wake distinguished by the Union " , wanted to emphasize that "The Union still has many things to remember the past present and what they should be proud, something I wanted to capture in the Cartel."
For its part, the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, said "the impressive quality of the work and its deep roots in the spirit and soul mining of La Union, which also takes on greater importance in this year's Festival, dedicated the first mining in the town that won a mining lamp, Eleuterio Andreu (1964), who of course worked on the Cabezo Rajao. "
Tribute to Enrique Morente
Barnabas himself moved during the presentation that the artist Estrella Morente Granada will be one of the stars who will participate this year at the Festival del Cante de las Minas, precisely on the occasion of the tribute that this year he will submit to the figure his father, Enrique Morente, who died recently and last Gold Castillete our flamenco festival.
The official Poster presentation Cante de las Minas de La Union was brightened with a performance on piano of Abdon Alcaraz, Philo 2010 Trophy winner, who was accompanied on vocals by Moses Gomar 'The Moi' and Miguel Angel Orengo to percussion , a flamenco show that undoubtedly delighted the audience that filled the room.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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