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Publication in hoyaragon.es, January 8, 2024 | Camila Fagá José Manuel Cardiel is one of those people for whom 24 hours a day seem too short. A doctor by vocation, he spent 40 years practicing medicine as a stomatologist and is currently part of the Quirón surgical team with Dr. Eloy Tejero. Cardiel is also the Honduran consul, Vice President of the College of Physicians, a commentator on Cadena Cope and Aragón TV, and an artist since he discovered his passion for painting 33 years ago. All these facets and many more fill not only his professional resume but also his life resume, capturing his personality in each of his works: restless, dynamic, and persistent. He has been called the "Aragonese Pollock" for his painting style, abstract expressionism. Cardiel uses the dripping technique, which consists of spontaneously and energetically splashing paint onto a canvas with his hands, practically without using a brush. "It all started as a hobby, but I'm very persistent and consistent in my work, and what was initially a hobby has become almost another profession in the last two years, since I am and will continue to be […]

On May 9, Europe Day was celebrated and the Zaragoza City Council organized a series of events that were presided over by one of the works of the Zaragoza artist Jose Manuel Cardiel.

Aspanoa, the association that helps children with cancer and their families in Aragon, inaugurated this morning the twenty-eighth edition of its Exhibition and sale of contemporary art against childhood cancer. The exhibition, which will remain open to the public at the Pablo Serrano until April 21, brings together 99 works donated by as many artists and gallery owners. Among them can be found six Aragón Goya winners (Pedro Avellaned, Natalio Bayo, Julia Dorado, Rafael Navarro, Teresa Ramón and Juan José Vera) and many other renowned artists such as Esperanza Altuzarra, Eva Armisén, José Manuel Cardiel, José Beulas, David Callau , Aurora Charlo, Ignacio Fortún, Alejandro Monge, Víctor Mira, Pilar Moré, Pilar Urbano and Georges Ward, among many others. Each of the artists exhibits a work, which is sold for the full benefit of Aspanoa at the price set by the author. On this occasion, prices range between 150 and 6,500 euros. Accompanied by the president of the Cortes of Aragon, Javier Sada, and the Ministers of Culture and Health of the Government of Aragon, Felipe Faci and Sira Repollés, the president of Aspanoa, Gabriel Tirado, highlighted that this show of solidarity is “vital” for that Aspanoa can

The Cortes pay tribute with the painting “Ukraine in the heart of Aragon” The Aragonese Parliament Board has presented this morning the canvas made by José Manuel Cardiel to raise awareness of the situation that the Ukrainian people are experiencing at the moment when it turns one year of the beginning of the conflict in UkraineThe president of the Cortes of Aragon, Javier Sada, accompanied by the members of the Board Ramiro Domínguez and Itxaso Cabrera, received this morning the painting “Ukraine in the heart of Aragon”, a work designed by José Manuel Cardiel to pay tribute to the Ukrainian people on the occasion of the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine. Furthermore, Sada explained that the Aragonese painter José Manuel Cardiel “had already made a painting about the war in Ukraine” such as the one designed for the last Aragon Day held in the Aljafería Palace, which was transferred to the Ukrainian Residents Association. in Aragon (AURA). The canvas will remain this week in the Aragonese Parliament and will later be donated to the pictorial and artistic heritage of the Aljafería and the Cortes. The Aragonese painter José Manuel Cardiel, specialist in Stomatology and vice president of the Zaragoza College of Physicians, has explained

The Minister of Health of the Government of Aragon, Sira Repollés, chose this work by the Aragonese artist Jose Manuel Cardiel as the background, to encourage all Aragonese to score a goal against childhood cancer in the Aspanoa Children with Cancer match, which is held on November 13, 2022 in La Romareda with the Real Zaragoza veterans

On October 16, 2022, the Zaragoza City Council delivered a commemorative painting to the people of Ukraine made by the Aragonese abstract expressionist artist, José Manuel Cardiel. This year, Ukraine has been the country invited to the Pilar Festival to make visible and remind the city and visitors that the conflict is still alive and that the Ukrainian people continue to need our help.

The socialist MEP Isabel García Muñoz inaugurated this Tuesday in the European Parliament the exhibition 'Europe embraces the Ukrainian people', by the Aragonese expressionist author José Manuel Cardiel. The exhibition is made up of 27 canvases that represent the flags of all the Member States, as well as like two canvases with the flags of the European Union and Ukraine. The MEP has arranged for the European Parliament to temporarily provide space for these works in its main building. "We want to start a new political course remembering that the war in Ukraine is not over," said García. The objective of the exhibition is to prevent all the human lives lost by the Russian invasion from falling into oblivion and to insist that the conflict is still active. "This work reminds us that our challenge as a society is that solidarity is not only a temporary or spontaneous response, but a value that defines us as European citizens," explained the Aragonese MEP. José Manuel Cardiel was present at the inauguration , author of the works, accompanied by a large group of MEPs and visitors. As the painter has indicated, "this work arises from the need to insist that we are a community

The festivity of the University of Zaragoza has also been chaired by the president of the Aragonese Government, Javier Lambán, accompanied by the Minister of Science, University and Knowledge Society, Maru Díaz and the rector of the University of Zaragoza, Jose Antonio Mayoral

Jose Manuel Cardiel presented the work "Our Hearts Cry for Ukraine" to preside over the National Health System conference on Public Health surveillance held in Zaragoza on March 9 and 10, 2022 and which was attended by the President of the Government of Aragon, Javier Lambán and the Minister of Health Carolina Darias Press release from Moncloa

Delivery of a canvas from the “Virgen del Pilar” series to the Vice Mayor of Zaragoza, Ilma. Mrs. Sara Fernández Escuer.