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Bellver Castle is a circular castle on a hill near Palma de Mallorca in the island of Majorca, Balearic Islands. It was built in the 14th century for the king James II of Majorca. It was used as a military prison during the 18th and 19th centuries. Now it is one of the touristic attractions of the island.


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Smallworks Gallery - José Bellver (615 words)
The Black Paintings, according to Bellver, were "born from a clean mind" in the early 1980s.
Reflecting on, even dreaming of flness, Bellver wanted to produce a body of work which could be "free from the narrative of images." That is, without apparent meaning.
Bellver explains that the paintings are about memory, "going back and bringing forward" something which has remained buried for nearly twenty years.
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