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Nude queen on the bus causes a stir in Murcia
There is controversy in Murcia about a painting of a nude model with the added face of María de Austria, wife of King Felipe IV. Next to the nude is the text, ‘Crisis?, What Crisis?’
The image is painted on the back of one of the line 2 local buses and will be there for the next month, as part of a program from the regional contemporary art festival PAC.
The painting is part of a project from the local Murcia artist, Carmen Molina Cantabella, who says she is surprised by the amount of press coverage her painting has generated.
Left wingers I.U. in Murcia say they consider the exercise to be ‘sexist, inappropriate and out of context’ and have called for the painting to be removed and for the immediate resignation of the local Culture and Tourism Councillor, Pedro Alberto Cruz, who organised the Contemporary Art Project on the buses.
Cruz says the project is designed so ‘the whole world can see the art which is being done in the Murcia region’.
The image is painted on the back of one of the line 2 local buses and will be there for the next month, as part of a program from the regional contemporary art festival PAC.
The painting is part of a project from the local Murcia artist, Carmen Molina Cantabella, who says she is surprised by the amount of press coverage her painting has generated.
Left wingers I.U. in Murcia say they consider the exercise to be ‘sexist, inappropriate and out of context’ and have called for the painting to be removed and for the immediate resignation of the local Culture and Tourism Councillor, Pedro Alberto Cruz, who organised the Contemporary Art Project on the buses.
Cruz says the project is designed so ‘the whole world can see the art which is being done in the Murcia region’.
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