Nine Mediterranean, and is the name of the exhibition of paintings from White Pedro Cano, which opened Friday in the temporary exhibition hall of the Teatro Romano.
The exhibition organized by the Roman Theatre in Cartagena Foundation and the Foundation Pedro Cano, sponsored by the City of Cartagena, the Autonomous Community of Murcia and Cajamurcia Foundation, and assist the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and Murcia University, was opened by Mayor Pilar Barreiro.
The exhibition includes the latest and most important pictorial cycle of Pedro Cano, inspired by his travels and in the contemplation of some cities, which immerses us in the history of Mediterranean man in the movement of its people, fishing, living and loving banks in nine cities.
Nine Mediterranean is the personal vision of the painter made from a sea that does not appear in its 54 paintings, whose attention is projected from him towards shore.
The nine Mediterranean are Alexandria, Cartagena, Istanbul, Majorca, Naples, Patmos, Sicily, Split and Venice.
In the words of Pedro Cano, the sea is a curtain invisible.
It appears, although the star / creator of the sites.
Pedro Cano Alexandria has represented through portraits of Alexander the Great, old scripts, charts and assumptions of the lighthouse.
In Cartagena has devoted his attention to salt.
A tuna and octopus drying in the wind and the memories of old jars which carried the garum.
Istanbul is Hagia Sophia.
Built by Justinian as a great temple of Christianity, becomes the whole scheme of Islamic religious architecture today.
Mallorca, known only as a vacation spot, is represented through the blinds of a cloister of the Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa, where Chopin was cured away from the cold winters of northern Europe.
Naples is the smorfia, which numbers ninety figures is one of the treasures of Naples.
The island of Patmos, Greece, is represented by the wreaths that hang like necklaces on the doorsteps.
Sicily has a memory of Greece, the Venus of Syracuse, the Satyr of Mazara and young Mozia, we talk about the importance of the classical world on the largest island in the Mediterranean.
Split in the palace of Diocletian.
Built as a residence and mausoleum of the emperor, becomes little by little in a shelter and then in a city where today three thousand people still live in the imperial enclosure.
The hard look on Venice are palline ie bats emerging from the lake with color oblique lists and will surely tell stories that even the inhabitants of the surrounding palaces known.
Pedro Cano offers an exhibition without boundaries that will leave its mark on their long journey, whose career began in the ancient Roman Theatre of Nova Carthago, Carthaginensis provincial capital, to follow the way to the imperial capital, Rome, with its exposure to Markets of Trajan.
Nine Mediterranean are able to visit June 15 to September 15 in the Roman Theatre Museum, Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 to 20.00 hours and on Sundays from 10.00 to 14.00 hours.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena