Ibi Degomagom publishing house just published the book From Mariola to the sea, A travel book made by Alicante sculptor Vicente Ferrero Molina (Banyeres de Mariola, 1944) to reduce the severity of the pandemic in 2020. go through the places in my mind and draw them on a Moleskine notebook. The result is a book of forty illustrations spread over eighty pages that reflect a journey through the landscape of the world. about forty kilometers between the sea and the mountains of the province Alicante, from Banyeres to El Campello Ibi, Alcoy, Agres, Biar or Bocairent.
Ferrero Molina is a sculptor, Doctor of Fine Arts and Professor of Drawing from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). He is the director of the Alicante Museum of Fine Arts (Mubag) and chairman of the Art Commission of the Consell Valencià de Cultura (CVC). The edition, which had to be delayed from April to June due to paper supply issues, has received support from the University of Alicante, UPV and CVC and will be presented next September.
Vicente Ferrero explains it This book is a continuation of the previous one. just handmade, Graphic diary of a prisonerIt was created by combining the drawings and texts of the desolate situation he saw behind the window. “If I had refuge and refuge, that was my salvation. Without him this wouldn’t have happened”Gives information about Ferrero From Mariola to the seastarting at lowering the voltage “When I feel the need to go out into the field and fresh air like everyone elsethe need to meet the landscape and breathe after being locked up for so long”.
He used to visit “known and loved” sights from his travels and to reflect them on one of the little sketchbooks he always carried with him, because then, after being imprisoned, they had to be drawn” on a route of about forty kilometers from an altitude of nine hundred meters to the Mediterranean coast, intertwined with nature.
Drawings made of graphite, They are not intended to be typical stamps or postcards of the region.but places that make sense in their memories on this road drawn by a landscape that has come a long way, “with longing, but also with faith in the future” and without any pretensions other than “reflecting that desire shared by so many that everything will be as before”.
Like this, pictures are accompanied by short texts With the reflections of Ferrero’s memories, which he conveys to the reader, for example, as his father said, the landscape that can be seen from a point in his hometown, Alicante, Valencia, Murcia and Alicante, Valencia, Murcia and Albacete; The fields I walked as a child or the lonely almond tree by the roadside; the calm sea full of fishermen and the small coves of the Mediterranean.
Editor Octavio Ferrero, who started the collection of workbooks by publishing in 2020, Archaic Murals of the Paul AuladellHe draws attention to the importance of “looking carefully” at the landscape presented by this new book, which, like others, “offers insights and secrets that artists keep in drawers because they dare not be published.”
This will be followed by two more copies already in progress with Aspe illustrator’s sketchbooks. Miguel Calatayud, with whom the publisher opened the catalog with the book Imagine Peter Pan and another of the Valencian writer Paco Rock.