The Fundación Tres Culturas is hosting this exhibition comprising a series of illustrations created by José Manuel Vigueras Roldán using the watercolour technique, which aim to pay tribute to some of the most outstanding figures representative of the humanist renaissance that was al-Andalus.
All these personalities contributed to the progress of future civilisations, yet they are unknown to most people. Their intellectual prowess is not sufficiently publicised, although they are recognised halfway around the world through monuments in large squares, fictional films and reports.
José Manuel Vigueras Roldán
Born in 1960 in Granada, he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts Santa Isabel de Hungría of the University of Seville in 1986. He currently teaches Plastic and Visual Arts at the I.E.S. Severo Ochoa in Granada, and is an associate lecturer at the University of Granada.
In the field of graphic design, he has published numerous posters, leaflets, corporate image, as well as magazine covers and various publications. He has also illustrated numerous books in the Science Stories of the Parque de las Ciencias de Granada, among other works. Since 1986 he has specialised in making models of reproductions of historical monuments for various museums and exhibitions.
In the field of teaching, he has received several awards, including the Joaquín Guichot First Prize for Educational Innovation in 1997, and the Francisco Giner de los Ríos First Prize in 2002.
He has taken part in various group exhibitions and has held several solo shows, such as this one, which is now being presented at Tres Culturas and which this year was shown at the Euro-Arab Foundation in Granada.