The socialist senators of the province congratulate the Piedrabuenero artist

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The PSOE senators for the province of Ciudad Real, José Manuel Bolaños, Carmen Mínguez and Jesús Martín, have agreed that the artists of Ciudad Real and the rest of the professionals from the world of culture, whose works transcend the borders of the province, “They contribute to making our land great, and are a source of pride.”

Precisely, one of the talents that the province of Ciudad Real has been able to export is that of the painter and sculptor, Pedro Castrortega, the artist from Piedrabuena, whose work is more than recognized, and these days also admired in the Casa del Reloj. from Phone Number Database Arganzuela (Madrid).The socialist parliamentarians did not want to miss the exhibition 'Tiempo Roto' by the Piedrabuenero artist, which next fall-winter will be presented at the Convento de la Merced in Ciudad Real, and will travel to Manzanares, Valdepeñas, Tomelloso and Alcázar de San Juan.

Fascinated by the author's particular iconography, centered on the presence of strange beings and elements of nature, they have thanked the tribute, largely also to their roots, since there is no doubt - they affirm - "that our countryman expresses his own universe , of course from his experiences in New York, Berlin, or Paris, but also based on his childhood in the village, without toys, without television or radio, where drawings in the ground made with a stick were almost the only existing resource. to give free rein to his imagination, as he himself has stated on some occasion.”

The PSOE Senators have been able to talk about this, and his recognitions, one of them the Gold Medal of Plastic Arts of Castilla-La Mancha, in , which was awarded to him last year in Pastrana by Emiliano García-Page. with the author, wishing him the greatest success with his 'Broken Time'.

This Spain of ours includes 17 autonomous regions with diverse geographical and cultural characteristics, with an area of ​​505,944 km², with inhabitants, of which only five million of them occupy 329,000 km2. If we call “Empty or Empty Spain” the territories that have been losing population since the middle of the last century to the present day, we will have a huge sinkhole that occupies most of this “deep Spain.



Where are your eyes? Where are your hands? Where is your head? Cecilia already asked herself these three questions in the 20th century, which are not so difficult to answer, at least the first two: in large cities and certain geographical areas. It is more complex to answer the third question, if we take into account that, since the , economic and structural policies have facilitated this territorial imbalance that has caused the decline of most of the country, massively losing people, services, infrastructure and with it Job opportunities.

The 'Friends of the Patio de ', with these meetings, want to help better understand what it means to "be rural" today, in the century: how feminism and rurality coexist; sexual and gender identity and rurality; the neo-rural and the rural; the symbiotic relationship between countryside and city, motivations and current circumstances that make them want to return to their town etc
To seek an answer, the Friends of the Patio de Comedias de Torralba de Association has had the initiative to organize literary meetings to offer different visions of the country, with the intention of seeking solutions based on education and culture in these towns.

In short, delve into this phenomenon of empty Spain from a multitude of points of view, in order to have in the future, through a series of texts, a kind of fresco that gives an account of the dreams, fears, hopes, triumphs and frustrations of the inhabitants who shape and fill with life what, in recent years, due to a predatory way of life, we have been determined to destroy.