Text and photos: Muriel Feiner
was inaugurated on Sunday in the Classroom Welcome to the Plaza de Las Ventas in Madrid barajas a unique exhibition of bullfighting, works by the great artist from Valencia, Carlos Ruano Llopis. The presentation was made by Carlos Abella, director of the CAM Taurinos Affairs and the Mexican editor Francisco Fernandez de Soto.
The exhibition includes two full decks of cards designed by one of the best bullfighting poster of all time: the English pack, consisting of 40 cards, and American or poker, 52. Carlos Ruano Llopis
was born in Orba (Valencia) on April 10, 1878 and died in Mexico on September 2, 1950. Ruano worked exclusively until 1934 for the popular press, Ortega lithography, and it is said that the great Joselito el Gallo cried to see one of his works: "He who has painted it, you know fight, although he had never done."
The famous bullfighting editor Francisco Javier Fernández and Soto had been Welcome earlier in the Aula de Las Ventas in Spain to present the magnificent book "Traces of Life and Death," about the great painter Antonio Navarrete, a disciple of Ruano Llopis, in 2005. He also presented his other publication, the important work, "Silverio Perez Redondel Diamond 'in 2007.
The exhibition is open to the public until next Sunday on 23 March at the following times: 10:00 to 14:00 hrs. and 17:00 to 19:00 hrs. You can enjoy these days of careful presentation of the two decks in full, spectacular in size through the use of an ultra-modern laser technology, and if the fans want, they can acquire these cards at a special price of 15 euros each.
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