As a culmination of the works in the Urbanization "Pinos del Limonar" , the architect Mr. Valentín de Madariaga Parias, who collaborated with the architect Mr. Javier Martín Malo in the design and management of the works, proposed to Mr. Francisco Porras Fontiveros the idea of creating a fountain designed by the universal artist from Malaga, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, of whom he was a personal friend, so that this source could serve as a central element in the entrance to the urbanization. This idea was accepted and treated with affection by EDIPSA, since with this it fulfilled one of the wishes of the founder of the company, as it was to bequeathing to the city of Malaga part of what it had received from her along His career as a promoter and builder..
In contact with Berrocal, the artist came from his residence in Verona (Italy) to see the project of urbanization, the area and the landscape where his work was to be located, being pleasantly impressed with the project and accepting the commission, which would be Financed entirely by EDIPSA and later ceded to the city of Malaga so that it remained, along with his sculpture "Monument to Picasso" existing in the gardens of the same name, as a further example of his work exposed in public places..
Miguel Ortiz Berrocal was born in Villanueva de Algaidas (Málaga) in 1933, and died in 2006. He studied in Madrid in the Fine Arts schools of San Fernando, Artes y Oficios and Graphic Arts..
He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1954 as a painter and began to make his first sculptures in wrought iron characterized by the possibility of adopting different positions..
In 1956 he settled in Rome and began to work on the subject of "dismantling as a potential sculpture" by making a series of balustrades for the Carrara Chamber of Commerce. Continuing with this theme, he makes multiple sculptures that are the starting point of his large, removable sculptures, which later expanded with his works in Paris (1960) to other works of medium and small format. He holds important exhibitions at the Kriegel galleries in Paris and Albert Loeb in New York from 1962 to 1963 and participates for the second time, as a sculptor, at the XXXII Venice Biennial (1964)..
In 1966 he won the sculpture prize at the Paris Biennial for his work "Mary of the O" and entered the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It definitively settled in Verona (Italy) for being a region with old tradition in the field of the artistic foundry..
The French state granted him in 1968 the appointment of "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres". He returned to exhibit in Madrid and began a new cycle of monumental works, including "Monument to Picasso" (1972-1976), "Richelieu-Big" (1973), "Almudena" (1974), "Delirium Tremens" ) And "Torso C" (1979). In 1973 he won the honorary award of the Sao Paulo Biennial (Brazil)..
In 1984 and 1985, the Spanish Ministry of Culture organized an anthological exhibition at the Palacio de Velázquez del Retiro in Madrid, which was later repeated at the Palau Mecca in Barcelona and at the "Le Botanique" Center in Brussels..
Berrocal's work is spread over cities around the world and his sculptures, such as "Citius Altius Fortius" (1991-1992), preside over such emblematic sites as the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (Switzerland)..
The source located in the Urbanization "Pinos del Limonar" of Malaga denominated "Opus 363" represents a round table on which Picassian still life realized in stone of Vicenza, of which mana the water that is led by means of gutters, also Of natural stone, forming brief waterfalls until the end of the square of access to the urbanization..
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La fuente Opus 363 fue inaugurada el 25 de septiembre de 1989 por el entonces alcalde de Málaga D. Pedro Aparicio Sánchez, siendo una artística y valiosa aportación cultural de EDIPSA a la ciudad de Málaga, quedando desde ese día integrada como un elemento más en su patrimonio urbano.