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The Roman Theatre Museum will host from 6 March to 30 June LVX Petrae the temporary exhibition, showing Teatro Romano under the gaze of Díaz Burgos.
The sample is presented to the media on Thursday at 11.30 am, press pass to be attended by the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro.
The official opening will be at 8 pm.
The Roman Theatre has been the central and inspiring piece of LVX Petrae, their discovery, excavation and recovery was one of the challenges of greater scope and impact not only a city but also to recent archeology.
In those first steps belong some images in black and white, rescued by the memory of José Maria Rodríguez Valero, and Diaz Burgos wanted to be part of the exhibition.
If the Antiquity position of theater in one of the highest hills in the city and next to the port would produce an impression of magnificence to all who came to the city by sea.
Currently, the location of the museum next to the Town Hall and its proximity to the port area has become the Town Hall Square in the main entry point for travelers and visitors who come to enjoy the excellence of this corner of the Mediterranean, returning the cosmopolitan he enjoyed in other periods in its history setting.
Díaz Burgos has captured with his camera all that palpable reality, the constant movement of travelers from many different cultures, and gives us a sample result of the illusion but also long hours of field work.
In the course of the show, through over seventy photographs, everyday life is recreated in the museum, the exhibits, the ancient stones of the Roman theater, the Moneo building or the people who visit, mingle in their images in harmony.
The pictures of Diaz Burgos in LVX Petrae snapshots are not only of great artistic quality but become a reality graphics documents reflecting how the monument has become an essential element of identity of the Roman Cartagena, visited by thousands people, people of all types, travelers of all nationalities and all ages.
With Diaz Burgos, the monument now returns to a live two millennia later element has portrayed its recognized ability to locate what is human and ordinary in any landscape, to convert it into something almost exotic pet.
The artist, patiently and waiting with his camera, has waited the proper light, the image speaks situations occur, the cat, the girl, Roman, Carthaginian, English, tattooed woman, lights and Mediterranean sun our shadows on the stones.
In short, his unmistakable on the Living History of a monument that has been returned to the company for your enjoyment, and that in a few years has become his trademark look.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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