page_title: Miguel Ángel Martín Bordera
section_title: Origin and career
hierarchical_section_title: Miguel Ángel Martín Bordera / Origin and career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Inicios 1
context_page_description: Spanish artist that was born in Alicante on 24/09/1966. Founder and current director of the street theatre company Carros de Foc.
context_section_description: He was born in an artistic environment, his parents Angel Martin and Mª Teresa Bordera are painters and sculptors of prominence in Alicante and contributed between 1960 and 1990, to the develop of the Sant Joan d´Alacant feast, being noted artists as “Monumentos de Hogueras” builders.
  Miguel Angel Martin, influenced by his parents, since he was very young, he started developing drawing and painting skills by copying works of Classic and Baroque authors like Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí. Lately he was interested especially for the surrealistic tendency of Salvador Dalí, making him a visit in a trip of the Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí in Figueras. Afterwards, studied marketing design, career that abandons to dedicate himself totally to the art.
  In Angel Martin's workshop, he collaborates with Swedish artist Bengt Lindström in the reproduction of a series of sculptures applying the technic that he dominates for the reproduction of the Ninots in Hogueras de Alicante.
  As of 80th decade he participates in different exhibitions, contests and plastic arts awards like the Winter Exhibition in Santa Barbara Castle, convened by Alicante's Council and in the first edition of the Painting Contest of San Vicente, getting the first award. Between 1984 and 1988 joins the group Pañés, sculpture and plastic expression group, formed by Pablo Ruiz Carretero and Ricardo Casal, he participates with them in the design of giant sculptures for a street exhibition. He works in the building of many “hogueras” of Alicante, “fallas” and floats, in the workshops of Pedro Soriano Moll, Ramón Marco Marco and Ángel Martín, obtaining many awards in the “Hogueras de San Juan de Alicante”. He also works in the allegorical floats for the parades of the Alcoy celebrated in many locations like Alcoy.
  In 1994, Miguel Angel Martin founded Carros de Foc. Since then as artistic director he has managed multitude street theatre projects along his more than 20 years of experience. His works have been able to be seen in different countries in the World like: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Morocco, China or Chile, where he has developed the creation, the design, the production and artistic management of itinerant street theater shows. Recently, in 2012 he was confided in Chile with the artistic management of the Paris Parade, with a total audience of 600.000 persons, in addition in more than 130.000 homes, the show was displayed through the TVN (National TV of Chile).
  Miguel Angel Martin, has also represented Spain into different street theatre festivals like the 10th anniversary of the Mawazine Festival, the most important in Maghreb, celebrated in Rabat, in which he received the congratulation from the director of Instituto Cervantes of Rabat, Federico Arbós, Natural Spirit, work of Miguel Angel Martin, was the perfect closing in 2012, in the XXVII edition of the International Theatre Festival of Cadiz (FIT).
  During 2012 to 2013 Miguel Angel Martin Bordera, develop projects of artistic directions in China representing his master piece the king Salvador
  The giant marionette, in the cities of Shanghai, Shenyang, Taicang, Qingdao or Changsha.
  Also his masterpieces have been seen in cities like Bucharest, Sibiu, or Alba Lulia in Romania, in the French cities like Paris, Nice, Arles, Clamart,  Obernai, Cambrai, Romans, La Grande Mottec o Aurillac to what it is necessary to add representations in Doetinchem in the Netherlands or in Pavia's city in Italy.
  In January 2013, in Santiago de Chile he were conducted The Parade The Druid of Jagul placed in The International Festival Santiago of Chile to Mil. In September  2013 he were conducted the performance of Urban Theatre for the celebration of The XX Anniversary of the Spanish Cities Heritage of the Humanity, for the UNESCO.
  For Katara Cultural Village Miguel Angel developed the master piece Fantasy in Katara that was represented in October 2013 in Doha-Qatar on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha Festival. Throughout the length and breadth of the whole Spanish geography and from the beginning of Miguel A
caption: Modelling work for the scenic decoration of Miguel Angel
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