(30-12-2011) The painter Ramon Castañer died in Madrid. He received tributes by the City Council of Alcoy, by the City Council of Agres and by the San Jorge Association. See
(27-08-2011) Recently, the new mayor of Alcoy, Toni Francés, visited Ramon Castañer in Agres (see). From the Ciudad de Alcoy newspaper, Antonio Castelló (see) and Ramón Climent (see), give their support to and appreciation for Ramón Castañer who is going through some difficult moments with his health.
(30-09-2008) (30-07-2008) The Mayor of Alcoy Jorge Sedano presented the artist Ramón Castañer with the Gold Medal of Alcoy for the merits achieved throughout his artistic career. Those, who are familiar with Ramón, know how proud and honoured he feels for this distinguished award that was presented with the consensus of all the political parties in the council as well as many private and state institutions who wanted to be part of this nomination.
((22-03-2007) A biographical book about the painter was presented at Llorens bookshop in Alcoy named "Self Portrait with Landscape, Ramón Castañer", the author is Pepa Botella, the artist's wife. The book has 17 chapters and a collection of comments and news about the painter.
We reproduce Pepa de Castañer words which are on the back cover book "Self Portrait with Landscape, Ramón Castañer":
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I would really like to say here that Pepa is and has been for me an exceptional mother and an admirable woman. She has always been closely involved poetry and is a great lover of literature.
In the Las Provincias de Valencia newspaper, Maria Angeles Arazo writes an article titled "Forja humana de un pintor", in which she expresses some endearing feelings about the biography of the painter, in relation to him as a person and his loved ones. See
Josep Lluis Seguí published an article in the Ciudad de Alcoy newspaper. See
(19-11-2007) We are pleased with the articles about the painter Castañer that were published Ciudad de Alcoy newspaper articles written by Ramon Climent, Rafael Coloma (article from 1957), Antonio Castelló, Adrian Espí and Adrian Miró. (see). These articles are reproducen with permission of Ciudad de Alcoy newspaper.
((24-09-2007) Ciudad de Alcoy newspaper published an Adrían Espí article named "La Romería de las Romerías" on the occasion of Alcoy patronal fiestas, the Lirios Virgin. In this article Adrián describes how the painter Castañer has made several pictorical interpretations about these rural religious topics (ver). On December 9, 2007 the Ciumenge Sunday suplemment of Ciudad newspaper, published another Adrían Espí article named "de Verde y Oro". Adrián, who is very knowledgeable about Castañer pictorical career, writes about Tauromachy, a collection of nib draws which Castañer gave to the Alcoy Bullfighting Club, or about the canvas "Torerillo en Triana" inspired by a Gerardo Diego poem, and he ends with a story about Andrés Coloma, a bullfighter called "Clásico", who Ramón Castañer painted in guache to illustrate a poetic research dedicated to the bullfighter and written by Pepa Botella (see).
This website about Ramón Castañer the artist has been completed in valencian language by Rafael Rufino Valor in Wikipedia (see). In the same way, he has created another website in Viquipèdia containing information about the painter and including information about the Petroli Revolution (see) nd about Santa Maria archiprestal church in Alcoy (see).
On the website of the 'Centro Instructivo Musical Apolo- Alcoi' (Spain), in the section "Web contributions" Jaume Jordi Ferrando has included information about a Pepa Botella de Castañer's book "Cançonetes als Abencerrajes".
On August 18, 2009 Ciudad de Alcoy newspaper published a Josep Lluis Seguí article named "Ramón Castañer: cuando la pintura da vida". (ver).