Ibarrola will rest with his wife under a tree in his beloved Oma forest
Euskaraz irakurri: Ibarrolak Omako baso kutunaren zuhaizpean hartuko du atseden, bere emaztearen aldamenean
The artist Agustín Ibarrola, who died this Friday at the age of 93, will be cremated and his ashes will rest next to those of his wife, Mari Luz Bellido, under a tree in the vicinity of the hamlet where the couple lived next to the Oma forest.
The son of the Basque painter and sculptor, José Ibarrola, has made these details known to the media at the Bilbao funeral home where the funeral chapel was installed this morning.
He explained that the family has received multiple expressions of condolence for the death of the artist and has stressed that the “best tribute” that can be paid to him is the “recognition of his work.”
José Ibarrola has highlighted that his father maintained throughout his life a “commitment against extremes and violence”, from an attitude “of dignity, morality and ethics”, something that in current times we would have to “learn a little about” .
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He explained that Agustín Ibarrola worked on his work “until the last moment” and, although he no longer used paint, he always had “a stack of pages and some crayons” on hand on the sofa in his house where he sat.
Political and cultural personalities say goodbye to Ibarrola
Personalities from the institutional, political and cultural spheres have come to the funeral chapel to pay tribute to the artist and protect the family.
the sculptor Juan Cuenca, National Design Award and Gold Medal for Fine Arts, and who was one of the components of the artistic group “Equipo 57” together with Ibarrola, has been one of the first artists to visit the burning chapel. Cuenca, who shared a “special, endearing friendship” with Ibarrola, explained to journalists that he feels that he has been left “alone” artistically, since the Basque author served as his “reference.”
Among the political representatives, one of the first to go to the funeral home was the mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburto (PNV), who has highlighted that with Ibarrola “a reference of art and a fighting person leaves”, with an “innovative” character, especially for that “union between culture and nature” reflected in large-format works such as those he has in Oma or Llanes (Asturias).
From the socialist ranks there have been several leaders who have visited the funeral chapel, such as the PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi Lopezand the general secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza. López has highlighted that Ibarrola “turned art into something capable of transmitting values” and that “he had an enormous capacity to transmit through his works, firstly strength, with those first images of workers and factories, but also to transmit a lot commitment and a lot of dignity”. “Now that he’s gone, there is a little less light in Euskadi,” he added.
Roberto Uriarteformer deputy and former general secretary of Podemos Euskadi, friend and neighbor of Ibarrola, said that the author’s death leaves “pain and emptiness” in his painted forest and thanked the artist for “how much he has done for our country.”
Other personalities from politics and culture have also attended, such as the actor Lander Otaola or the political veteran, Roberto Lertxundi.
Many people have paraded through the funeral home while wreaths of flowers arrived in memory of Ibarrola, like those sent by the CCOO union and the Ermua City Council, which has declared three days of mourning by the artist.
The funeral chapel will remain open until tomorrow afternoon.
Source: Eitb
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