History is full of unknown and nameless characters…until that is no longer the case. Eduardo Munoz Orts It did not go unnoticed in its time, but the years that have passed have not done it justice. He died at the age of 57, but busy life was filled with countless transcendent eventsS.
Now, the entire life journey has been gathered together. Eduardo Muñoz’s artistic adventure «Lalo»An exceptional book written by journalist Francisco AgramuntPublished in Cololecció Bocins.
better known lolEduardo Muñoz (Valencia, 1908-Issy les Molineaux, Paris, 1964) painter, painter, and cartoonist from a bourgeois family and strong republican and anti-fascist beliefs standing tall even in the toughest moments.
Agramunt’s book, for the first time a review of his work and life. The journalist himself said, “Unknown in Valencia, it was initially more costumbrist-impressionist and later evolved into abstraction and modernity, with the Paris School.
According to the author, Lalo is a “political and artistic avant-garde” with numerous associations with “Valencian republican intellectual groups”. He began studying law, but soon dropped it and entered law school. academy Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia
Unwavering political commitment
Sala Blava was part of the Union of Proletarian Artists and the Antifascist Alliance of Intellectuals. «Involved in the Valencian revolution of the 1930s, Josep Renau, Francisco Carreño and Genaro Lahuerta.… and other regenerators,” he notes.
As such, he was “well known” for his political commitment that led him – literally – to fight in the Civil War. From there he went into exile in France, where he was later imprisoned and ended up in the Mathausen-Gusen concentration camp with number 4,205. Thanks to his talent, he survived for four years, because The camp commander commissioned him to decorate the hunting lodge.
But even in these conditions, he did not give up because – Agramunt, who for decades had made visible the artists in exile – the painter « a huge role in the liberation of the camp: his friends called him the commander of the resistance, and he was one of the interlocutors with the Americans».
Artists and intellectuals in exile
After his release, he settled in Paris and continued to do illustrations for the press, interacting with artists, intellectuals and exiles. as described The artistic adventure of Eduardo Muñoz «Lalo», pablo picasso He was one of his biggest friends, supporters and fans. Encouraging him to exhibit his paintings several times in Paris.
And this, his introverted and introverted character and his desire to “stay away from the commercial art circles of the period”, It didn’t help that Lalo’s work became known.
Now Catherine Muñoz, her daughter, who wanted to unearth the hundred artifacts left in her home in Issy les Molineaux, Some, like “El deportado”, which is overtly cubist, of great rigidity.
There barracks, landscapes, still lifes, portraits or snowy prints... that the nameless and heir wishes they would one day ‘return from exile’ and be exhibited in his father’s homeland, Valencia.
Sincere, loyal and fighting for righteous causesthis is Agramunt de Muñoz’s portrait with a biography, some of which includes unpublished photographs, and an x-ray of the artistic context in exile and history in which Lalo discovered so much from his past. artistically personal and human perspective.