Mustafa Arruf

Mustafa Hamed Moh Arruf, was born in Nador, in 1958. He began his artistic studies at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades in Melilla and continued his training in Fine Arts in the city of Granada (Spain). His early vocation is painting and sculpture and, although he worked with materials such as wood, stone (in Holland), and bronze, it is with this material that he best expressed his art. == Works==

Source: • 1985: Bust devoted to Juan Caro. Public School Juan Caro (Melilla). Materials:Bronze. Height: 1.60 metres. • 1988: Ambro Bank. Amsterdam (Netherlands). High relief in stone. • 1991: Bust devoted to Victorio Manchón. U.N.E.D. (National Distance Education University) Exhibition Hall. Melilla. Materials used: Bronze. Height: 1.67 metres. • 1992: `Torso´. Melilla. Material: Bronze. Height: 1.70 metres. • 1993: Monument devoted to Miguel Fernández (Melilla). Materials used: Bronze. Height: 2.00 metres. • 1994: Bust devoted to Fernando Arrabal. Materials used: Bronze and weathering steel. Melilla • 1997: `Torso outside the Park of the Museum of Modern Art in Tromso (Norway). ´. Material used: Bronze. Height: 1.70 metres. • 1997: Monument named `Encuentro´. Melilla. Materials: Bronze and weathering steel. Height 12 and 10 metres. • 1997: Monument named `Encuentro´ at the Juan Carlos I Park at the Field of Nations (Campo de las Naciones) (Madrid). Material: Bronze. Height: 12 metres. • 1997: Bust devoted to General Cabanillas. Material used: Bronze. • 1998: `Torso´. Torrejon de Ardoz (Madrid). Material used: Bronze. Height: 1.70 metres. • 1999: Monument `Encuentros´. Location: Melilla. Material used: Weathering steel. Height: 3 metres. • 2002: Bust devoted to the Lieutenant Legionnaire Aguilar (Melilla). Material: Bronze. Height: 3 metres. • 2003: Ten sculptures made of bronze located in Paseo Maritimo Francisco Mir Berlanga (Melilla). • 2007: Monument devoted to the theatre director Cesar Jimenez. Material used: Bronze. • 2008: Project-Monument devoted to Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Malaga). • 2009: Monument devoted to Enrique Nieto (Spanish architect) – Melilla. • 2013: The monument devoted to Pedro de Estopiñan is restored – Melilla. Works in public areas: • Ámsterdam (Netherlands) • Berlín (Germany) • Huelva (Spain) • Madrid (Spain) • Melilla (Spain) • Toledo (Spain) • Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain) • Tromsø (Norway) == Exhibitions ==

• 1997: Melilla´s International Film Week Award. Sculpture `Encuentros´. • 1997: Collective Exhibition. Art Gallery Serie (Madrid). • 1997: International Fair of Modern Art (Estampa, Madrid). • 1997: International Film Week Award. City of Melilla Award. Sculpture `Encuentros´. • 1998: Collective exhibition named `Fernando Arrabal Espace´. Villa San Carlo Borromeo. Milan. Italy. • 1999: Collective exhibition with Fernando Arrabal (Valencia, Alicante, Zaragoza, Madrid, Lisboa) with national and foreign artists. • 1999: Melilla´s Nautical Week Award. Fifth Centenary [V Centenario] Award. • 2000: Art Gallery Serie. Collective exhibition. • 2000: Collective exhibition with Fernando Arrabal in Paris at Bayoux Museum with national ant foreign artists. • 2000: First Melilla's Nautical Week (Semana Nautica Ciudad de Melilla) Award. • 2004: Collective exhibition Forum 2004 (Barcelona). • 2006: Diario Sur [Malaga's newspaper] Sculpture Award (Malaga). • 2006 Melilla Sefarad, Fundación Gaselec, Melilla. • 2012: Homage to Dounia Oualit. Individual exhibition sponsored by the Honorable City Hall of Rabat and the Foundation C.D.G. (Morocco). == Awards and distinctions ==

• Second National Prize in the Sculpture Biennial of Castellón (with his work "Mother") (1981). • The Autonomous City of Melilla dedicates a street (2003). == References ==