The Joaquin Bejarano Verano exhibition in July and August in Rota
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The entrance to Castillo di Luna with a banner alluding to the exhibition.
On the 16th anniversary of this blog, which began on September 11, 2009, I have the great pleasure of presenting to you the exhibition that our colleague Joaquin Bejarano Verano held between July 15 and August 15. I met Joaquin in person 7 years ago, at another of his "ships in bottles" exhibitions. I'll translate the poster that hung in the exhibition hall, as I think it perfectly sums up who he is in our artistic world:
"Joaquin was born in Rota, Cádiz, Spain, in 1952. He is a kind person, full of wisdom and mastery. He has always been drawn to the sea and this fascinating world of bottle boats. He has been practicing it for over four decades. He developed his own techniques and original tools to delicately assemble the miniatures in the bellies of bottles. He has held both solo and group exhibitions. His mastery of this art is so high that he is considered one of the greatest bottle boat miniaturists in the world. Enjoy admiring his meticulous work (in the photographs and videos of all the pieces on display)."
Joaquin's "surgery" instrument table
Rota Dock
Southern Fantasy - Cadiz
Historic area of Rota
Seafaring Route - Port Scene
Falucho Miguel Maria
Cruise Yacht (Sparkman & Stephens)
Whaling ship - 1850
Prestige - The oil tanker ship that caused the major catastrophe in Northwest Spain on November 13, 2002 (work carried out on the 20th anniversary of the tragic event).
16th Century Spanish Galleon, San Martin
Malécon - Havana - Cuba
Rialto Bridge - Venice (2021)
Titanic, work done on the hundredth anniversary of its tragedy, April 14, 1912
Gabriel Trawler
Sovereign of the Seas, a 17th-century English ship. You can see the construction of this model by clicking here.
Submarine in minefield.
Wappen von Hamburg - A Dutch merchant ship escorting ships. It sank due to an explosion in the magazine, killing many crew members in October 1683. You can see the construction of this ship by clicking here.
Battleship "Maine". Due to a strong explosion, it sank on February 15, 1898, in the harbor of Havana, and this fact was the cause of war between Spain and the United States of America.
HMS Endeavour, English Ship of the 20th Century. XVIII, commanded by Coock
Golden Hind - 19th-16th century English galleon (made a circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580)
The workshop of the artist who builds boats in bottles (with photographs of his family)
HMS Bounty - A British navy ship, on April 28, 1789, it was the scene of one of the most famous mutinies in nautical history. You can see the construction of this model by clicking here.
Columbus's Ship, Santa Maria
Santíssima Trinidade - A Spanish ship that once boasted 140 cannons. It was the largest and best-armed ship of its time and the only one in the world with four bridges.
HMS Victory - midsection cutaway.
HMS Victory - A 19th-century English ship. It still exists as a museum in Portsmouth and is famous for its participation in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, as a flagship commanded by Lord Nelson.
San Bartolomé - Spanish Galleon (1592)
America - On August 22, 1851, this schooner won for the first time the Britishin at the regatta that would later be called the "America's Cup"
HMS Prince - 17th-century English ship. A first-rate, 100-gun ship of the British Royal Navy. You can see the construction of this model by clicking here.
Discovery - The last three-masted wooden ship built in the United Kingdom. It was used by Robert Scot to map the Antarctic coasts and, due to ice blockage, had to remain on Ross Island for two years.
Vasa - Swedish ship that sank shortly after being launched on August 10, 1628. You can see the construction of this model by clicking here.
HMS Royal Williams - 1719. You can see the construction of this ship by clicking here.
Submarine U573 - Ship of the the Spanish Navy.
Eagle - United States Coast Guard cutter
Calypso - Commander Jacques Costeau's ocean-going research vessel. It was instrumental in the emergence of environmental awareness.
Roter Lowe - 16th Century Ship
Juan Sebastian del Cano - Departure of the Spanish training ship for a training trip crossing the old bridge of Cádiz
Juan Sebastian del Cano - Spanish training ship
Juan Sebastian del Cano - Spanish training ship
Juan Sebastian del Cano - Spanish training ship
La Palma beach and resort, Cádiz
Fishing boat off the west coast of Sweden
San Filipe - Spanish Ship of the 19th Century XVIII - The allusions regarding its existence are contradictory, as there was another ship with the same name in 1793, but which, contrary to the references to this one, did not participate in military actions.
Three-masted schooner used in the western Mediterranean between the 19th and 20th centuries
Russian galley - 19th century XVI
Mare Nostrum - Spanish trawler
Ark Royal - English Galleon 19th-16th Century. She was part of the "Invincible Armada" and her career spanned 50 years.
Beagle - Brigantine with a third mast aft. It led Charles Darwin to the discovery of the "Origin of Species." Built by me, David Luna de Carvalho, I handed it over to Joaquin, who was kind enough to exhibit it.
Buenaventura - 3 mast mixed steamer
1930s Cruising Yacht
Batolomé Square and its boundary, Rota
Adriano III - Harbor Steamer
Hespérides (A33) - Spanish oceanographic and polar research vessel, based in Cartagena.
Colorau Uno - Coastal fishing boat of the Colorau family, with great traditions in this type of fishing.
Mixed fishing steamer, steam-powered and still with two masts for sails, 19th century.
Vespa, at the door of the House (Joaquin, also like me, is a biker, as well as a restorer of old motorcycles)
Cutter - In the 17th century, the cutter was a type of small, single-masted, fast, and maneuverable boat used to escort merchant shipping.
San Juan Nepomuceno - She was the flagship of the Spanish Armada in the Caribbean in 1779. She returned to Spain in 1805, having participated in the Battle of Trafalgar.
Joaquin and I, in the exhibition hall, characterized by great simplicity and beauty, as you can see in the following videos. The first video was directed by me, and the second by Joaquin, on the last day of the exhibition. It was truly inspiring to see so much beauty reflected in the expressions of amazement and delight of hundreds of visitors, their eyes shining, especially children! A big hug, Master and friend!
My son John Pedro was seduced by the beautiful lines of the 1933 Stormy Weather and performed a miniature to put inside a bottle. It was his first and, so far, his only miniaturism work inside a bottle. João followed my method, building hulls with thin pine strips on a previously done mold. The hull geometry held in cardboard. Filling the spaces of longitudinal sections. Once filled with a mass, to homogenize the surface, it have to dry. With dry and sanded hull, thin pine straps began in the oblique direction. Then the wood is then placed in the direction of the length of the hull. With the wood glued and dry, the cardboard mold is carefully removed. This is the end result. Then begins the work of doing the cabin and other superstructures. Here we already have the masts. Positioned masts. The introduction of the "Stormy Weather" miniature presupposes, firstly, a base on which it rests on. The sailboat is introduced with the masts lying down, but without any articulatio...
The miniature of CS-ALN I had never made any miniature inside a bottle other than a ship or boat. The reason is that there is something common between bottles and boats: the liquid! The idea of doing an aircraft had already happened to me, but it would have to be a hydroplane with its floats. CS-ALN, the first aircraft that commander Pedro Cadete piloted Commander Pedro Cadete watching a restored CUB, which still participated in World War II. In 2024 on a flight, after 49 years of piloting CS-ALN The exception I present to you, the realization of a Piper Super Cub without floats, was to be a childhood friend of Pedro Cadete who was for decades commander of commercial aviation and began, precisely in a CUB, like what I performed on December 10, 1975 at the Tires Aerodrome in Portugal. Not long ago, there was also the circumstance that triggered this process. Pedro gave me a flight to another older Cub and that's when I learned that it had been identical (just like the one I did)...
At the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art was exposed a play with a 18th century Galleon in 2006. What most amazed to me is its resemblance to the "sea" of Yinka Shonibare, held in 2010 and exposed in London, as a big news. You can review the post about the London bottle and check the obvious similarities by clicking here. ...
Prestige - The oil tanker ship that caused the major catastrophe in Northwest Spain on November 13, 2002 (work carried out on the 20th anniversary of the tragic event).
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