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Until September 22 you can see in the exhibition hall of the sample CAM 'National Exhibition of Fine Arts Prisoners' Association Jumilla Templars.

Although the room from day 13, this morning has been visited and officially opened by the Mayor of Jumilla Francisco Abellán, President of the Association of Jumilla Templars i Josep Tomas Galea, the regional director of the CAM Francisco Reyes and Director of the Penitentiary of Murcia Paco Marín.

They have also assisted the painter Jumillano Saorin Jesus Lozano, other council members of the government team and the regional deputy Seve Gonzales.

The exhibition includes some thirty pictorial works made by inmates of the prisons of the Spanish state, with risk of social exclusion.

The National Exhibition of Fine Arts Prisoners 2010, which includes the Phoenix Project, is framed within the activities covered by the Cross Cultural VII of the Bailiwick Jumilla Templar wedging the milites Christi Murcia the capital of the Altiplano.

The work, carried out in the techniques of watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel and charcoal, representing Zuera prisons, Ocaña 1, Girona, Lleida, Castellon 2, Valladolid, and the Psychiatric Prison Hospital in Seville.

The work has been done by prisoners with lengthy sentences, convictions and other violent crimes in depressive states, "the important thing is therefore to invest the time in practice painting, as well documented as well try to sell a collection, whose money they enter the inmates, "said Thomas i Galea.

The head of the Templars of Jumilla has indicated that "they are going to see is product and outcome of work which we have been exporting it outside the prisons for who knows as many people as possible."

Also reported that "there are works of guests and students from rural school Cañada del Trigo, an oil painting by Joseph Marhuenda, several paintings by Francisco Abellán Martinez and another child Anguix Angel Fernandez (three years)."

It adds that "France stands as the guest in which the inmate in the prison's high security Lannemezan (Cathar Country), Petru Alessandri, presents a still life in oils where the star came out as main reason for this event."

There is also a section devoted to comics.

Mayor Francisco Abellán, who received a gift in appreciation of his paintings, also welcomed the invitation to participate in "this magnificent exhibition, a show that fulfills the same function as intended Concepción Arenal forerunner of the modern prison system, when in his mind he wanted to transform the old system to advance the humanization and reintegration into society easier. "

"I think that with this exhibition, the association aims Templars, not so much contribute to the rehabilitation of the inner self, but because society is recycled in their thinking, to think that a prisoner serving a sentence, and painting or write into the center, is preparing to be well received in society to expect and that should be understood by that company, "said Abellán adding that" it is a way to see the person and not the prisoner, and with the desire to succeed can achieve goals. "

For his part, Director of the Penitentiary of Murcia said that "our work and our constitutional mandate is the reintegration and rehabilitation of inmates and a very important part passes through the approach to culture, people who are going back to society and our job is to do so in the best possible conditions for that we need the help of the rest of society, so initiatives are acknowledged as the Association of Jumilla Templar, "said Paco Marín.

Territorial President of the CAM thanked those present the opportunity to collaborate in an activity like this, "one of the goals of the box is to revert to the society of which we get the benefits, some of those benefits, in this case through initiatives such as the Templars so excited that we have passed on, "said Francisco de los Reyes.

Finally, Josep Tomás i Galea announced that they are seeking support to bring the 'Phoenix Project' to the European Union.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla