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Juan Vallet Mart\u00ednez, better known as Bejas, was born in 1963 in the city of Orihuela. Nowadays, he lives in Bayona, where he has his studio. He is the father of 8 children, leather\u2019s artisan by profession and artist by passion.<\/span><\/p>\n More than academic training, he states that he has been hardened by every experience lived. That\u2019s why his style is very personal, almost impossible to classify, savagely intuitive. As the own artist explained \u201c<\/span>my self-taught situation has the privilege of understanding art as a research with no limits, with a passion that demolishes every taboo that an academician is used to face, learning with every new project\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row column_padding=”false” equal_height=”true”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ full_height=”true” el_class=”custom_class”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n He is Francisco Salina\u2019s nephew, with whom he shared a lot of moments of his adolescence. This is due to (or \u201cthis is the reason of\u201d) his early vocation for poetry, being \u201cElogio al cante (1975) his first known work. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1453904820071{background-image: url(https:\/\/www.bejas.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/bejas2.jpg?id=2065) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row column_padding=”false” equal_height=”true”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1453905568363{background-image: url(https:\/\/www.bejas.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/bejas3.jpg?id=2067) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ full_height=”true” el_class=”custom_class”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n He has worked with Joaqu\u00edn Hinojosa and Vicente Genov\u00e9s, participating in the shows \u201cCan\u2019t pay! Won\u2019t pay!\u201d by Dar\u00edo Fo, \u201cA respectable wedding\u201d by Bertolt Brecht and \u201cKing Ubu\u201d by Alfred Jarry. .<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They performed these shows between 1987 and 1992 for all the Valencian Community. Amongst these years he worked in the Rescue Society team of its city, too<\/span><\/p>\n Between 1998 and 2000 he made a lot of works of clothing and setting for the museums of Cullera. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text]He does not consider himself as an artist, but a researcher that combines tradition and new technologies in a chameleonic way. <\/span><\/h2>\n
Moreover, he comes from a puppeteer family, the Montoya\u2019s<\/em> family, and since childhood he has been attracted to theatre. <\/span><\/h2>\n