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The exhibition 'The beat of the stones' will bring visitors to the ancient world through works from different museums and cities of the western Mediterranean.
The exhibition will open on Friday, May 4, at 8:00 pm at the Museo del Teatro Romano.
'The beat of the stones' brings together more than twenty photographs and an audiovisual by Néstor Giuliodoro and Isabel Martínez.
Images that bring visitors to the ancient world through works from different museums and cities of the western Mediterranean, but it is also a work encouraged by the passion to find a link between these works of art, some of them contemporary, and texts of classic authors from different schools of philosophical thought of Western culture.
The project was born with a vocation of educational innovation for the teaching of history.
Along the way, the authors invite us to enter the classical world as witnesses of a rich cultural period not so distant.
These images appear as fragments of incomplete portraits of a lost past, but it is essential to reconstruct it in order to have better tools with which to reflect on the present.
In short, a journey that goes from the Terracotta mask of the Bardo Museum (Tunisia), to the Astarte that welcomes the museum in Cadiz, to the high relief of Pyrgi in the Etruscan National Museum in Rome.
You can also see bronze works such as: Pugile, or Nemi's jellyfish, both exhibited at the Massimo Palace in Rome;
or the Victory of Samothrace, exhibited in the Louvre;
among other.
'The beat of the stones' also makes a tour of the influence of this plastic in later art, such as the composition of the dance of Carpeaux, in the Paris opera;
or the work of Igor Mitoraj, at the gates of Santa Maria de los Mártires in Rome;
which has influenced works by artists from the Murcia region such as: González Beltrán, Fernando Sáenz de Elorrieta or Lido Rico.
Images that contain content, phrases, thoughts and sentences of classic authors such as: Cato, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Plautus, Terence, Seneca and Sallust.
All this forms a cluster of heartbeats where there is room for the longings, joys, fears and hopes with which, in a serene or crazy way, we humans agitated for millennia.
The project also aims to develop a tool of educational innovation for the learning of history and classical culture, which will have a second phase linked to educational centers with activities aimed at students, through an App, as well as a third phase of conclusions.
The exhibition will remain open until August 28.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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