The delegate for Employment, Enterprise and Self-Employment, Amós García Hueso, together with the mayor of Huércal-Overa, Domingo Fernández, and the director of the IES Cura Valera de Huércal Overa, Diego Bonillo, unveiled a sculpture from the Escuela del Mármol de Fines, which has been displayed in the gardens of the centre since Tuesday.
As Amós García explained, the temporary loan of this sculpture responds to the objective of the Escuela del Mármol, one of the eleven training centres of the Andalusian Employment Service, «to promote the artistic use of marble and natural stone» and added that «many of the artistic pieces collected by the School during the international symposiums and youth sculpture competitions it has organised are displayed in public spaces in municipalities throughout the province and on the Campus of the University of Almeria, to spread the culture throughout Almeria and publicise the beauty of natural stone and specifically, Macael marble, sculpted».
The sculpture, entitled ‘Primigenias’, is the work of the artist based in Olula del Río Diego Cano Valera, who «is also one of the eleven Master Craftsmen we have in the province of Almería and is a member of the Zone of Artisan Interest Macael-Valle del Almanzora», detailed García Hueso, who also remarked that this piece is made of white marble Macael and «is representative of one of the key sectors of the province of Almería».
Amós García indicated that the main objective of the Marble School is «to provide quality training for unemployed and employed people to meet the current needs of natural stone companies». He also pointed out that its new programme until 2025 «involves doubling the training compared to the previous training offer, with more practices and with training actions, for the first time, for employed workers and for young people with alternating training contracts, something in which the Marble School will be a pioneer in Andalusia within the training schools of the SAE».