Alberto Paniagua Jiménez
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Calle Alférez Provisional, 42 – 45600 Talavera de la Reina
ACTIVITY
Alberto Paniagua produces woodwork in his workshop in a wholly manual and artisanal way, making unique articles.
His speciality is ornamental or figurative carving, always by the direct method, along with the conservation and restoration of altarpieces, wooden ceilings and even doorways.
As well as carving,… his workshop uses decorative techniques such as gilding, with mordant or water, and complementary painting techniques such as egg tempera for gold varnish or oil-painted polychromy.
TRAINING
He learnt his trade through being the second generation of his family devoted to the craft, as well as from courses at the art schools of Talavera de la Reina and Madrid.
TEACHING
His firm is a centre approved by the Government of Castilla–La Mancha, so it gives subsidised courses. A total of 18 such courses have been delivered to date.
They also given private courses for training smaller groups.
SELECTED WORK
In the Church of San Andrés in Talavera de la Reina the firm cleaned up the altarpiece and wooden ceiling, made a new tabernacle and restored doorways.
It also worked on the doorways of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor and of the former… town hall (now the local office of the regional government), the great door of the current town hall, or that of the former Hospital of Mercy (now the Rafael Morales Cultural Centre), all in Talavera.
In the Church of Santiago also in Talavera they cleaned up the main altarpiece dating from the 16th century and restored an 18th-century organ.
They have also done much work for most of the Easter Confraternities in Talavera de la Reina and environs, ranging from gilding and restoration to the creation of new image carriers and guide crosses for processions, or the carving of an image of the Christ of Resolution for the Confraternity of Potters.
