The mural 'Estimem la nostra llengua' is 25 years old, and the Faculty of Teacher Training has set up a commemorative website

  • Press Office
  • June 6th, 2020
 
Mural detail.
Mural detail.

The Faculty of Teacher Training of the Universitat de València has set up a section on its website to collect memories of the participants in the production of the mural 'Estimem la nostra llengua' (Let's love our language), made with 513 figures painted by schools in Valencian, to mark the tenth anniversary of the School Conferences in Valencià.

The mural is on permanent display in the hall of the Faculty of Teacher Training. The website about the mural can be consulted by clicking here

In 1995, the Valencian designer Xavier Mariscal, in collaboration with the Fallas artist Manolo Martín, conceived a series of pieces for the celebration of this event of Escola Valenciana. Xavier Mariscal was already a well-known artist, among other designs, for the Cobi design for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Manolo Martín was a prestigious Fallas artist who was a reference point for modernity and the renovation of Valencian art with works such as the Gulliver Park.

On May 6, 1995, in an event at the Alameda de València, each of the schools participating in the initiative took their piece to a large festive event. In the words of the organisers of that event: "The mural is the concretization of the spirit of Escola Valenciana, the visualisation of all those little people-marshals who in the school and from the school have learned to esteem our language".

Some time later, Escola Valenciana gave the mural in the old Ausiàs March Teacher Training School of the University of Valencia in the Monteolivete district. It remained in its entrance hall until the transfer to the new faculty in 2010.

At the presentation ceremony of the mural in the new building, Xavier Mariscal himself said that there was no better location for this emblematic work created by so many children. Unfortunately, Manolo Martín had died in 2005, but his son, also a Fallas artist, was in charge of the assembly in its current location and to this day he is carrying out a systematic review of its conservation.