Jean Selz, author of this issue difficult to locate, published in 1968 by Editorial Eco SA, has been a laborious search culminating in Barcelona by the sister organization of the Templars of Jumilla, the Cultural Association Jumillana consequence of cultural policy milites Christi since 2006, deployed in prisons where they are present through the Phoenix Project Prisoners of Fine Arts and Crafts, therapy disciplines that use training, encouragement of self-esteem, and fight against social exclusion
The specimen is the prize for a jail inmate Almeria El Acebuche, who requested a book of sculpture, whose work "virgin with child" was selected by the Temple Jumillano for national exposure Templar in the Provincial de Almería, and then presented officially, along with more than fifty works in painting, sculpture and crafts in the regional prison Sociocultural Murcia II in Campos del Río.
In the final paragraph of the foreword by JJ Tharrats, an authority on the subject, we should be reproduced and says: "Through the pages of this book, whose Spanish edition has been made possible by the Editorial Echo SA, a century of modern sculpture sees us.'s a hundred years of courage, search and conquests, an impressive sum of realizations that to the layman, it may seem exhaustive or give the impression that art has gone too far and that can be found at a closed door. Like everything in life is a matter of faith, we are more optimistic, we believe that the way of art and sculpture, it has just begun. "
Source: Templarios de Jumilla