The passion for photography, an emotion that a great part of the Mazarron artists clearly feel, becomes a vivid image in the exhibition 'La Mar' of the F20 Association that until November 21 can be seen in the exhibition hall of the Popular University located on the ground floor of the CIME building of the Constitution Avenue of Mazarrón.
44 images of 23 photographers, mostly mazarroneros, make up this exhibition that in its inauguration impressed attendees for its quality and for the spectacularity of some of the snapshots related to the sea.
The exhibition can be visited from Monday to Friday from 8 in the afternoon to 10 at night.
The mayor of Mazarrón, Gaspar Miras, and the Councilor for Culture, Ginés Campillo, along with other councilors of the corporation and the national deputy of the PSOE, Marisol Sánchez Jódar, clothed the photographers at the start of the exhibition in which The president of the photographers association, José Ortuño, and the director of the Popular University (UP), José María López Ballesta, also addressed a few words.
José Ortuño explained that "this exhibition would be impossible to have done without my colleagues who have contributed their works. I want to thank everyone and I believe that we have achieved a good level, both with quality photographs of those who have spent more years as partners Novels, because our goal is to spread photography ".
Ortuño thanked the City Council and the UP for the work and good treatment offered to the photographic collective to launch this exhibition "especially to José María for his support and also to his team Ginés and Juan Francisco for the assembly of the exhibition".
The Councilor for Culture, Ginés Campillo, stressed that "it is always a privilege to open an exhibition and much more when it comes to local artists" qualifying it as "magnificent."
Campillo reflected around "the word that gives name to the exhibition that admits the two genders, although in this case the feminine one has been chosen, but that denotes the versatility of this medium, such as the sea, which has given us life and also the versatility of the work that is exposed here, being able to find from a romantic sea with sunrises and sunsets, to a cruel sea with a nod to those boats that cross the strait looking for their occupants a better life, or a religious sea, the sea as the fishermen say, or a sea in colors or black and white and that sea of ​​our Bay of Mazarrón ".
The mayor of Mazarrón, Gaspar Miras, stressed that "this exhibition is another example of the diversity for Culture that is making Mazarrón truly constitute a cultural municipality with exhibitions, which even overlap, in the different rooms of our municipality ".
The first mayor congratulated the photographers for the exhibition "because many of them have known each other for a lifetime and have been fond of photography for many years. A few years that have borne fruit that we have here today. Works that leave a snapshot hanging in the wall but that take minutes and minutes of work, patience and dedication. Works that carry a process of execution that we cannot imagine ".
Miras finally encouraged the Department of Culture, Popular University and Association F20 "to continue on this path and make Mazarrón a great bulwark of Culture."
The photographers that make up the exhibition are Alberto Martínez, Jaime Hernández, María Dolores Olivo, Ángel Cánovas, Jesús Maestra, María José Aznar, Antonio López, José Domínguez, Miguel Ángel Mateos, Cristina Pagán, José Manuel Ureña, Pedro Durán, Daniel José Aragón , José María González, José Ortuño, David García, Juan S. Calventus, Sara Pardo, Esteban Maldonado, Lola López, Teresa López, Francisco Matas and Luis Marino.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón