【慈幼通訊社
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2017 年
4月
19 日秘魯利馬訊】
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秘魯會省慈幼會士Jorge
Mauchi神父，創作了一幅著名的鮑思高臉部畫像。作品十分簡潔，以粗線條勾畫出，這位青年人的聖者溫良、慈祥、安康的面容。今天會省舉行Mauchi神父作品展，作為對他這份始創自1955年，超凡而富趣味事業的致敬。
Mauchi神父長期任教於利馬Breña區慈幼會學院。他的工餘時間全投放在繪畫、藝術、雕塑及音樂上。很多舊生都對他充滿感恩之情，其中一位是Ruperto Macha先生，他回憶說：「我對藝術認識了很多，對Jorge神父的印象歷久常新。在秘魯可以找到他很多重要的宗教畫作。」
4月7日，Mauchi神父作品展於慈幼科技學院揭幕，為表揚他這方面的超凡成就。這實在是對他歷六十二年技藝的一份敬禮。出席開幕儀式的包括慈幼會士、母佑會修女、舊同學及作者的各方親戚好友。
Mauchi神父現年92歲。他是利馬富藝術設計的聖母進教之佑大殿的創造者之一。他的其中一件重要作品，為聖瑪定•包瑞斯祭台（1964年）。他亦曾修飾聖堂後方的格子窗（1999年），以及十四處苦路的圖像（2000年）。
Mauchi神父完全是一名藝術家，他的畫作亦極負盛名，然而他在素描上也大有成就，一幅自上世紀七十年代起，風行世界各地的鮑思高像，便是他重要作品之一。
展覽在利馬揭幕，有其重要價值，因為展示了一位大半生以藝術進行他的宗徒事工的慈幼會士的作品，以致力尋求「美」的道路上，引領人們找到信仰。
An image that has travelled the world: today tribute is paid to the artist, Fr Jorge Mauchi, SDB
(ANS - Peru –Lima, 19 April 2017) – Fr Jorge Mauchi is a Salesian of the Province of Peru (PER) creator of one of the best known drawings of Don Bosco's face. It's a very simple work of art, with bold strokes depicting the gentle, serene and peaceful face of the Saint of Youth. Today the Province is launching an exhibition of Fr Mauchi’s works of art, as a tribute to his extraordinary and interesting career as an artist from 1955.
Fr Mauchi was a teacher for generations of students at the Salesian Institute in the Breña district of Lima. His free time was devoted to painting, art, sculpture and music. Many of his past pupils remember him with affection and gratitude. One of them is Mr. Ruperto Macha, who recalls: "I learned a lot about art. The image of Fr Jorge is fresh in my mind. Many important religious paintings of his are to be found in Peru."
On 7 April, an exhibition in recognition of the extraordinary career of Don Mauchi was inaugurated at the Salesian Technological Institute. It is a well-deserved tribute to this artist who has been working for 62 years. The opening ceremony was attended by Salesians, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, past pupils, friends and relatives of the artist.
Fr Mauchi is now 92. He is one of the personalities who contributed to the artistic production of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Lima. One of his most important works is the altar dedicated to St. Martin of Porres (1964). He also decorated the rear grille (1999) and the series of fourteen paintings of the Stations of the Cross (2000).
"Mauchi" is a complete artist, who is best remembered as a painter, but he also has had notable success in drawing, as demonstrated by the great success of one of his portraits of Don Bosco which has spread around the world since the 70s.
The exhibition which opened in Lima has an important value because it presents the work of a Salesian who exercised most of his apostolate as an artist, and worked in search of that "way of beauty" which can lead others to faith.