Exhibition in CATALUNYA back in 2010.

Hi Steemians!
today I´m going to tell you about an exhibition I did in a town near Barcelona called Mollet del Vallés. This is the town my father came from and I still keep a link to it through my spanish family.
This is the La Marineta cultural space run by the town hall.

The exhibition took place in 2010 and I exhibited about 30 paintings.
During the presentation I told the story that is behind this piece called THE POWER OF GREED.
(Here is the little story:
Once upon a time there was a man living on a planet named Earth. On it, there were birds, fruit trees and fresh water. He had all he needed to survive.
As he observed the gracious flight of the birds, he painfully longed to do so also.
One day he had a plan, and asked the birds if they would help him spin the large wheel he had built that would be the motor to move his big artificial wings to try to fly.
He had made the gear with pretty little tempting houses made to fulfil people´s wishes built on the dream of a tv frame strip.

The naive birds willingly helped him move his large wheel with all their strength but it was far too much for them and they became trapped, then cristalised dead into a lovely stained glass window.
So, this man then decided to find other sources of energy to move his large wheel, making an other wheel out of the fresh water he found and an other with all the fruit trees. Bringing both these close to the gear of his big wheel it finally moved and was able to beat the wings he wished to fly with. His dream was finally fulfilled.
Shortly after, he died of hunger and thirst. Thistly from no water, hungry from no food and no longer being able to admire the flight of the birds.
He was known to have died of famine but I know he had died long before that, with his boundless ambition.)

Anyway, the exhibition was up for just over a month and it was very well received. I was not sure what to expect as I don´t really have that much contact with this place. My father died when I was a baby and I was brought up by my mother and saw my spanish family may be once a year at the most. They are all very warm and welcoming but I haven´t ever been a close part of the family. They were happy to organise this exhibition and it made me know their friends a bit more.

Me in the corner clearing up the bubble wrap and organising the name tags.

So, there were some images of the exhibition

I hope you enjoyed them.
And if you are curious of the stages though which a painting like the Power of Greed went through you can visit a very old post on Steemit.
https://steemit.com/art/@romanie/th-power-of-greed

Best Wishes,
Romanie

www.romanie.net