Alicante Honours Soledad Sevilla with the Second Eusebio Sempere Award

Soledad Sevilla's coherence, quality, and significance in her career have earned her the second Eusebio Sempere Award for Artistic Creation and Thought, granted by the Department of Culture of the Alicante City Council.

The artist expressed her "tremendous emotion for a recognition that brings me special joy as it bears Sempere's name." Both artists met at the Centre for Calculation at the University of Madrid, where Sempere developed various works such as self-portraits.

Sempere himself wrote about this woman's painting: "We have before us the lesson of Soledad Sevilla," emphasizing that "it is vocation and perseverance, more freedom for the air, and in her solitude, she draws networks of lines on canvas to respond to the challenge of life... Soledad Sevilla is the epitome of harmony and the sounds and wonder before the rainbow."

The latest series in which Soledad Sevilla works, 'White Horizons' or 'Waiting for Sempere', serve as a tribute to the artist she references. In her career, she has also developed a language in the field of geometric abstraction based on the purity of line and colour, ordered through symmetries, grids, or patterns.

For all these reasons, the jury has decided to award the second Eusebio Sempere Prize to this contemporary of the great colivenco artist, thus expanding the list of winners after being inaugurated by Gustavo Torner, whose figure and work will be the focus of his year in 2025 in Cuenca. This award is presented biennially and comes with a financial prize of 10,000 euros.

The Jury of the second Sempere Prize was composed of the Councillor for Culture, Nayma Beldjilali, the curator of the Reina Sofia National Museum Carmen Fernández Aparicio, the curator, critic, and cultural manager Isabel Tejeda Martín, the artist José Mª Yturralde López, and the collector Javier Romero Vera.