Juan Emilio Ríos presents in the Casa de Las Tejerinas the book-catalog ‘Ireneo Ruiz, a painter of the Campo de Gibraltar’.

The event, with free admission until full capacity is reached, will take place on Friday, November 29th.

Estepona City Council reports that the poet, storyteller, writer and novelist Juan Emilio Rios will present next Friday, November 29, at 18.00 hours, the book-catalogue ‘Ireneo Ruiz, a painter of the Campo de Gibraltar’. The event will take place in the Alfonso Gil Alfonso Hall of the Casa de Las Tejerinas,

The work ‘Ireneo Ruiz, a painter of the Campo de Gibraltar’ is intended to serve as a “showcase” on part of the artistic career of the neorealist painter, with texts, reviews and poems (also translated into English) by Juan Emilio Rios. Together they have collaborated on many occasions, either with illustrations for the covers of several magazines, such as YARABÍ and GUADALMESÍ, accompanying the writer’s poems with the painter’s sketches and drawings, or with articles in the press and presentations at several of the artist’s inaugurations, by Juan Emilio Ríos.

The mutual admiration for their creative work has resulted in this eighty-page book-catalog, in which in addition to the photographs by Soco Luis and the translations by Jenny Langston, which complement the authorship of the same, offers the description and development of three different projects, including ‘La PAZjarita’, which proposes the reflection and idealization of a lasting peace in the face of the harsh war.

Juan Emilio Ríos was born in Algeciras in 1966 and is based in San Luis de Sabinillas. He has a degree in Hispanic Philology and sufficient research at the University of Cadiz, and is currently president of the Ateneo José Román de Algeciras, president of Section VI of the Institute of Studies Campogibraltareños and president of the Poetry Group José Luis Cano.

As a poet he has published numerous books of poetry, among which are ‘El exquisito cadáver de la rosa’, ‘Poeta en alerta’, ‘El jardín de los suspiros’, ‘Engendros de la ira’ or ‘El Don Femenino’. As a storyteller he has published the book of short stories ‘El cementerio de los suicidas’; and one of journalistic articles, ‘La última columna antes del precipicio’. As an essayist he has published ‘Haiku’ and ‘El alcohol en la Literatura, la historia y la publicidad’. He has directed the magazines ‘Yaraví’, ‘Barataria’ and ‘Entelequia’. He has created several stanzas: ‘el Kif’, ‘la Deyanira’, ‘el Iuncuset ventus’, ‘el Espejo’, ‘la Giraluna’ and ‘La Violeta’.

Ireneo Ruiz was born in Ceuta in 1965. He studied drawing and painting at the School of Arts and Crafts and at the Al-zahara Academy (Algeciras), as well as with the artists José Valdemar, Vicente Miñana and Antonio Miguel González. He is a drawing and painting instructor in the municipal workshop of the City Council of Los Barrios. He participated in the meeting Frontera Sur-Iconos (1999) and with the installation ‘El arte de sobrevivir’ in the call ‘Arte en domicilio’ of Las edades del Óxido (Málaga 2002). Since 1985 he has made numerous solo exhibitions and has also participated in other group exhibitions.