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On Friday 24 at 7:30 p.m., the photographic exhibition of José Carlos Ñíguez that will be inaugurated at the Roman Theater of Cartagena, will present a special look on this emblematic monument, showing the viewer some unpublished images captured of reality but that has not repaired to perceive and is organized by the Roman Theater Foundation (Cartagena City Council, Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Caja Murcia Foundation) in collaboration with the Ibedrola Foundation.
A hidden look that generates new contemporary compositions where color and textures are shown as a metaphor for the riddles that hide these ancient stones, which have witnessed so many centuries of existence.
The opening act is expected to go to the Deputy Mayor, Manuel Padín.
The exhibition brings together more than fifty photographs of great artistic quality that transferred to cotton paper reflect the emotions and feelings of the author, turning the photographic work almost into a pictorial canvas.
Thus, the series centered on the altars with the symbols of the Capitoline Triad and the female courtships that accompany them, is presented to the viewer with a minimalist vision where the dark ones reveal the soft fall of the folds of the feminine garments, but also they evoke the traces of time in their broken and fissures, as well as in the wear of polished surfaces due to the transfer of history.
The author's gaze on the Rea Silvia allows us to penetrate inside the holes carved in the marble, visualize the oxides of the veins and almost palpate the folds of his tunic.
In the series Landscapes on the stands of the Roman Theater, the real thing does not prevail but the abstraction, generating a composition full of contrasts and textures, like lunar landscapes full of holes and concavities.
However, the curves of the marble bases with their moldings or the pinkish textures of the veins of the column shafts have inspired a more real, but undoubtedly intimate, silence that permeates and characterizes the work of this photographer .
The artist has worked more than a year on the creative project 'Hidden look' focusing his lens on stone elements, which torn from the bowels of the earth, were carved by artisans and stonemasons from another era.
Those ancient stones of the Roman Theater and those works of its ornamental program exhibited in the Museum have been the source of inspiration in Hidden Look.
The sample can be visited until April 13.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
José Carlos Ñíguez (Cartagena, autumn 1954).
He is a Doctor of Medicine, Specialist in Pediatrics.
His relationship with photography begins in the eighties in a self-taught way, although it is from 2007 when he decides to bring his work to light.
He has won numerous national and international awards and has participated in collective and individual exhibitions.
His works are in numerous public and private collections.
When asked about his photography, he tells us: "I long for my images to be unknown in their own reality."
The artist does not look at the world to document it, but takes it as a starting point to reinvent it.
Its reality crosses the space of its emotions, trying to open the doors to distant universes that we do not perceive.
His images reside in the intuition of what is hidden on the other side of the camera: those spaces where the inexplicable, the amazing, the mystery dwells.
Where the real and the imaginary is confused.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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