Martínez Tendero donates 70 works from his latest collection to ‘Yo me pido vida’
The Albacete painter José María Martínez Tendero has decided to donate 70 works from his latest collection to the association ‘Yo me pido vida’. He will hand them over in the spring with a formula that allows him to express his gratitude to both the health personnel and this association and their promotion of marrow donation. Thus, he will give the portraits to his protagonists in exchange for them to make a donation to the association.
The ‘looks’ of the health personnel of Albacete will be exhibited in Huesca and Zaragoza
At this point in the pandemic, no one doubts the collapse suffered by the Albacete hospitals or the lack of protection or the fear and suffering that their professionals faced. In March 2020, Martínez Tendero returned from Zaragoza, his adopted city, to confine himself to Albacete, his land.
Seeing and listening to the messages of help that came from every corner, the painter decided to capture what was happening in his own way. He asked for photographs of the medical staff to catch their eyes. And only with the expression of his eyes, despite the mask, Martínez Tendero managed to express the fear, fatigue, uncertainty or compassion that was guessed behind the rudimentary protection.
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When the confinement ended, the idea of exhibiting the works of this Albacete painter, who remembered everything that happened, was involved in controversy. It was not until this month of September when the institutions of the city, with the endorsement of all political groups, covered the exhibition of these ‘Looks’ at the Circo Theater, where more than two thousand people have passed in less than two weeks .
Now, these faces of Albacete, immortalized, will travel to Huesca and Zaragoza. It will be in spring when Martínez Tendero will give the works, the portrait of his glances, to his protagonists. But it will do so on one condition, that they make a donation to the association ‘Yo me pido vida’.
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Why Martínez Tendero and ‘Yo me request vida’?
And it is that Martínez Tendero, although far from his land, has always been aware of it. He followed with concern the evolution of María Carrilero, a leukemia patient whose life was saved by research and the donation of umbilical cord blood from an Italian mother. Albacete mobilized in such a way that there were queues to donate marrow. Over time, María recovered and founded the association ‘Yo me pido vida’, to promote both donation and research.
Now the glances of health personnel, research and patients converge on this initiative by the artist José María Martínez Tendero.
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