Cartoonist and cartoonist Demetrio, a pioneer of comics and also a watercolor artist in Alicante, opens this wednesday at 19:30 A retrospective exhibition bringing together 36 of his best worksboth in the world funny as in the picture. “It’s a potpourri, there’s a bit of all my work from the comic book pages (he was the cartoonist of the characters). Tarzan and tumak), with a respectful Vincent Maciawho is the person i started drawing, Urban painting of even the places I’ve stayed in Morocco, China or Thailand; Cities like London, Madrid, Paris and the streets of Alicante” in watercolor and acrylic paint on paper and cardboard.
But he what He did not stop painting at the age of 78 and presents the majority of those who describe his style as naive. new work done in the last two years during the pandemic and today one of them will be fresh from his brushes as he has not finished yet. “This is Casa Carbonell, a painting he promised to finish,” says Demetrio’s childhood friend De España, making it clear that he “wanted it to be the first person” to be exhibited at its centre.
Demetrius then wrote Vincent Peris “easily come out of his shell with a pencil and a topic that motivates him” when he was a cartoonist Juan Pallardo He points out that both his pleasure and dissatisfaction with drawing led him to explore solutions to capture the motifs of his aesthetic universe, from the exotic world of adventure in general to the Wild West. kasbahs and Moroccan or Egyptian markets…, and old Alicante scenes It’s the place he dreamed of as a child of Indians, poor, pirates, Chinese junkies and medieval tournaments.
The exhibition can be visited until October 22Tuesday to Saturday, from 18:30 to 20:30.