Manuel García Moia

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Manuel García Moia (born June 13, 1936 in Masaya ) is a Nicaraguan painter of naive art .

Life

Manuel García Moia was born on June 13, 1936 in Monimbó, the Indian quarter of Masaya . Growing up in a poor family, he learned various trades. He began painting as an autodidact, before his extraordinary talent enabled him to study color with Professor Rodrigo Penalba, the Nestor and promoter of modern art in Nicaragua, in 1959.

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Moia's naive painting quickly became known, appreciated and awarded nationally and internationally. Restless years of creative and traveling began with exhibitions in Latin America and Europe (France, FR Germany, GDR, USSR, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland).

Easel paintings

After the Sandinista Revolution in July 1979, he became one of the most famous naive painters in his country. His easel works of art are now also in many renowned private collections, such as B. the Japanese Emperor or the ex-USA President Jimmy Carter .

Wall pictures (Murales)

In a relatively short period of time (1979–1990) he created his well-known large-format murals (Spanish: Murales):

  • in Managua , in the Luiz Alfonso Velasquez Children's Park (1980)
  • in Masaya , on the Huberto Huembes market (1981)
  • in the Hessian city of Dietzenbach (1981)
  • in Ingelheim , (1981)
  • in Managua, in the Bello Horizonte market (1983)
  • in Managua, at the La Marseillaise restaurant, (1984)
  • in Berlin-Rummelsburg , Skandinavische Strasse 26 (1985)
  • in Berlin-Fennpfuhl , school at Wilhelmsberg (1985) (2 interior murals)
  • in Copenhagen , Dannebrogsgade 24 (1987)
  • in Miami , Florida (1991).

With the exception of the works of art in Berlin (as of 2011) and his naive painting on the wall of a kindergarten (1981, Dietzenbach), the others have meanwhile been irretrievably decayed, willfully destroyed or painted over.

Nicaraguan village - Monimbó 1978 anno 2011

Mural in the Lichtenberg district of Rummelsburg

Moia, National Prize Winner for Naive Art from Nicaragua, created the 255 square meter gable wall painting in Berlin at Skandinavische Strasse 26 near the Lichtenberger Bridge, entitled Nicaraguan Village - Monimbó 1978 , with the help of Martin Hoffmann and Trakia Wendisch . The ceremonial handover to the Lichtenberg district took place on August 27, 1985 . The depiction contains many little stories about the daily life and struggle of the oppressed population.

The painting was commissioned by the GDR government, which strongly supported the liberation movement of the Nicaraguan people in the 1970s. The reason for the subject was a spontaneous popular uprising in February 1978 in the city ​​of Masaya , which was bloodily suppressed by the Somoza National Guard , 343 Indians atone with their lives. Monimbó developed into the national beacon of the will for freedom. Manuel García Moia, himself from Monimbó, dealt with this murderous civil war trauma in his anti-war mural Nicaraguan Village - Monimbó 1978 .

Information column showing the first renewal and a list of sponsors

In the course of more than 15 years, the mural was in a poor state of preservation due to the effects of the weather and solar radiation. After the fall of the Wall , the house came to a private owner who planned the renovation of the apartments and the facade, the painting would have disappeared under a layer of insulation. A specially founded Berlin citizens' initiative succeeded in creating a copy of this extraordinary work of art on the insulating wall that cost more than 100,000  euros . The painters Gerd Wulff (Berlin-Kreuzberg) and Max Michael Holst (Hamburg) as well as numerous sponsors made a decisive contribution to this . The consent of the artist was given, who even took part symbolically. On September 30, 2005, the anti-war depiction was again visible to everyone in a new blaze of colors at the same location.

Various reasons led to the fact that the replica crumbled off piece by piece after only a short time, starting in 2011. For safety reasons, it had to be completely removed in 2013, the district administration now had the gable surface painted over white. The citizens' initiative preservation of the Nicaragua gable mural began to fight again for a restoration. The approval of various Berlin institutions (Senate, district office, monument protection authority) has now been received, only the required minimum amount of around 105,000 euros has not yet been reached (as of May 2017).

The small green space in front of the wall gable and the Lichtenberger Brücke was named Monimbóplatz on June 13, 2006, the 70th birthday of Moia, on the decision of the Lichtenberg District Office. Here the citizens' initiative had a four-sided information column set up, which provides information about the career and the (first) rescue of the painting as well as about the painter.

Recognitions

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. Trocadero online art gallery , accessed November 29, 2011.
  2. murales murals of Goia on nuevanicaragua.de ( memento from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 27, 2011.
  3. Interior wall pictures, website of the school at Wilhelmsberg ( memento of the original from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 28, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wilhelmsberg.cidsnet.de
  4. Will the original disappear again? . In: Berliner Woche , September 16, 2015, p. 2.