Front 2007

The portada April Fair, in the last 27 years, exception of year 2.005, has been deeply inspired by emblematic buildings of the city of Seville, conjugates singular, have formalized their bows, a must match in the Real.

Under the slogan "Echoes of Giralda", on Friday 22 September the Senior Party Chief, Gonzalo Crespo, has submitted the winning proposal for the cover of the Fair 2007, work of Ricardo Hernández González, responsible for the Committee on Culture and Cultural Activities of the College of Industrial Engineers of Seville.

The project is inspired by the landmark of the city, the Giralda, prioritizing the tower in the composition as a representative element of the Giralda, the horseshoe arch, the arc mixtilíneo, motifs and geometric tracery and atauriques represented in one of the balconies.

BIOGRAPHICAL Ricardo Hernández González

He was born in Seville 1 October 1949. Early love of drawing and the visual arts, He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Sevilla, in parallel with the Baccalaureate courses. Finished two and university access (Preuniversitario), He decided to study Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Seville in Electrical specialty (Stations and Networks). He presented the Final Year Project in September 1973, belonging since the College of Experts and Industrial Engineers of Seville and maintain an active status in the exercise of the profession.

Initially, since 1974 a 1978 He worked on two lead firms of Electrical Installations Sector, coming to occupy the second position of Head of the Technical Office, responsible for studies and projects of the firm, aimed at the procurement of works.

In September 1975 married Mrs. Rosario Domínguez Martínez. The result of this union is the birth of her two daughters, María del Rosario and Mary.

Dedicated during the 1979-1980 the free exercise of the profession, he joined Telefónica in May 1980. Telefonica has worked in various cities: Madrid, Alicante, Ciudad Real and Sevilla. Remarkable Sevillian period, its relationship to the Company in the Engineering Section responsible Provincial Registry Works Plant and Infraestructrura for Area Transmission. Over the past years to the date of 2003 he was taking early retirement, belonged to the Planning and Programming of Works, taking responsibility for the Technical Plans Seville and Huelva, Area Transmission.

During this time and in parallel with its activity as an Industrial Engineer, has developed an intense pictorial activity participating in various exhibitions and specializing in portrait.

The year 1995, is a date of great significance because their personal circumstances allowed him to address an intensely cherished project, pursue studies in Fine Arts. During the 1995 a 1999 received a degree in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Sevilla. Advised by some of their teachers and given his good academic record decides to continue with PhD studies, finished them in the year 2004 defense of his thesis: Infographic versus perspective: computers in the teaching of perspective, in research and in the representation of space, receiving the grade of the Court of Outstanding cum laude.

During the courses 1999-2000 a 2003-2004 He has been Honorary Senior Department of Drawing, Faculty of Fine Arts of Seville, supporting during the last years of that period teaching load, Professor of Perspective.

The activity in its artistic side has been intense and plural: participation in conferences and seminars, group membership and research projects, publications, development of artistic activity as a painter and designer, jury awards for painting, etc..

From year 2003 has been linked to a Sevillian engineering company through service contracts, working in industrial design projects.

From 2004 He is a member of the Governing Board of the College of Industrial Engineers of Seville, being responsible for the Committee on Culture and Cultural Activities. Among its many activities is remarkable that committee organizing INGEARTE XXI, national painting prize, with only two years of existence has reached a magnificent level.

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EL “ALUMBRAO”

Surely you've been surprised to read this little word, that belongs to you-no doubt quepis- the particular dictionary Seville, but comes from “The Lighting”, light verb.

It really is something like “Chupinazo” in the San Fermin, represents the beginning of the Feria de Sevilla and is the highest authority of the city, our mayor, Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín press a little button and go slowly turning the 22.000 Home Light Bulbs, whose central entrance arch to the Fair is inspired by the door that leads to the building of the University of Seville (former tobacco factory) Calle San Fernando. Gradually be completely illuminating the Real, lighting all the bulbs that are in the Real de la Feria. The Fair is completely shines… and hence what the “alumbrao”.