Artist: Vicente Martínez Aparici.
Prize: 5th Special Section.
3rd of talent and grace
Cost: 150.000 Euros.
"In the history of humanity, very lucid figures appear from time to time who have done decisive things in the development of science, literature and art.
The inquisition condemned Galileo. Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, the adventures of a nobleman disturbed by medieval novels of chivalry. Picasso's cubist paintings were a craze that expanded the artistic avant-garde of the 20th century. Queen Juana I of Castile, madly in love with Philip the Fair, was removed from the throne because she was crazy... with love. Extravagant artistic and architectural projects earned Ludwig II of Bavaria the nickname 'the madman'."