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The painter Antonio Ballesta donates part of his magnificent work to the UNED in Torrevieja
Next Monday, June 23, at 8:00 p.m., at the Real Club Náutico de Torrevieja, the exhibition of paintings by Antonio Ballesta will be inaugurated on the occasion of the formal signing of the donation of 39 paintings by the prestigious Alicante artist.
18.06.2025
The event will be attended by the Councilor for Education and Universities, Ricardo Recuerdo, the director of the UNED in Elche, Francisco Escudero, and the author of the book-catalogue published to celebrate this donation. Cristo Riquelme
Antonio Ballesta (Redován, 1949) has dedicated his life to painting as a passionate Carthusian artist. Although his early works were watercolors and mixed media on wood and canvas with a figurative imprint, he soon shifted toward geometric art and abstraction. Ballesta's conceptual art has stood out from the end of the last century to the present day for its technique: the achievement of an original chromaticism and the composition or structure of its forms.
He has dedicated series to the most important European thinkers: politicians who shaped Europe, such as Robert Schumann, philosophers such as María Zambrano, and poets such as Kavafis, Miguel Hernández, and García Lorca. His oil paintings also recreate the landscape of the Vega Baja del Segura, always inspired by the emotions aroused by classical music and the mystical visual arts of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassicism, as well as the masters of abstract art of the last century.
Among his early works are still lifes housed in the Sabiñánigo Drawing Museum (Huesca) and works from a collection of asymmetrical paintings that break the square format of his paintings. He has also dedicated his work to reflecting on the impact of Covid-19 and the poetic transition of a life dedicated to artistic creation.
The latest issue of RELACES (April-July 2025), the Latin American journal of studies on bodies, emotions, and society, published in Argentina and distributed worldwide, illustrates its cover with an oil painting by Antonio Ballesta.
The paintings are intended to artistically decorate the university spaces of the UNED in Torrevieja, and a major exhibition of the entire donated collection has been requested for the coming year, 2026, in the Vista Alegre hall in Torrevieja.
The event will be attended by the Councilor for Education and Universities, Ricardo Recuerdo, the director of the UNED in Elx, Francisco Escudero, and the author of the book-catalogue published to celebrate this donation, Jesucristo Riquelme.