Photos from the Cabildo de Gran Canaria
César Manrique is now an Adopted Son of Gran Canaria. The Distinction was presented at the institutional event that the Cabildo de Gran Canaria held on Friday night at the Alfredo Kraus auditorium. In addition to the artist from Lanzarote, other Awards and Distinctions were also presented to other personalities and groups from the Canary Island on the occasion of the 106th anniversary of the island institution.
The president of the César Manrique Foundation, José Juan Ramírez, received the Distinction from Antonio Morales, posthumously to the artist from Lanzarote.
In his speech, the president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, highlighted that the people who receive this tribute "are an expression of an island that does not give up." "There are many keys, as we have seen, to understanding our island reality, but between the centenary that ends of the Luján Pérez School and that of the artist César Manrique that begins, I must highlight the phrase that guided our universal Lanzarote native, and that he took from another Gran Canaria native, our immense Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre, who had as his motto "to make life a work of art". As have done and do these people and entities that today receive the symbols of this island represented in the Roque Nublo and in the Can, for their contribution to the construction of this island society and those who become adopted or favorite children for their contribution to our community and as examples of overcoming", were some words that Morales dedicated in his speech to Manrique.
