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  Cartagena pottery. Prefasi-Zapata collection
14/11/2024 - 31/01/2025

The exhibition brings together an outstanding collection of more than 150 pieces of Cartagena pottery, the result of the dedication to collecting of the married couple José Miguel Prefasi Jiménez and María Teresa Zapata Cascales.

Don José Miguel, a pharmacist and art lover, passed on his passion to his wife, and together they became involved with renowned artists. His interest in Cartagena pottery, produced in the 19th century by factories such as La Amistad and La Cartagenera, led them to meticulously gather unique pieces during the 1970s. After his death, his descendants decided to donate this valuable collection to the Cartagena City Council through the Archaeological Museum, ensuring the preservation of this legacy and contributing to the dissemination of the city's history and cultural heritage.

These factories stood out for their ability to combine traditional techniques with innovative styles, creating ceramic pieces that reflected both artisanal quality and the emerging modernist aesthetic. The Cartagena bourgeoisie, in their search for greater cultural and aesthetic recognition, found in these industries a vehicle to express their identity and aspirations.

The importance of La Amistad and La Cartagenera goes beyond their production; they represent a period of transition and modernization that connected art with industry, contributing to the cultural development of Cartagena. Their legacy endures, reminding us how the concurrence between industry and art can shape the identity of a city.

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  AUGUSTEUM 'THE FORCE OF THE GALAXY'. TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
28/11/2024 - 02/02/2025    ON-LINE PURCHASE

The Force of the Galaxy is a private fan exhibition made up of a wide variety of collectibles such as original pieces used in the filming of films, life-size figures, dioramas, busts, autographs, models and statues. Guarding the temple of the Augusteum, an original costume of a rebel soldier, used in the filming of the first 1977 "Star Wars" movie, awaits us. 

  • Location: Augusteum.
  • Date: 27 November to 2 February. Opening hours: 10:00 to 17:30 (last admission 30 minutes before closing time).
  • Recipients: for all audiences (not accessible).
  • Information: 968 500 093.
Fees

We recommend booking online. 

General rate:  6 euros.

Club Cartagena Port of Cultures rate: 3 euros.

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  TALK "CARTAGENA POTTERY AS A REFLECTION OF CARTAGENA SOCIETY IN THE 19TH CENTURY
29/01/2025

Charla impartida por Susana Sarabia Gallego, comisaria de la exposición Loza de Cartagena.Colección Prefasi-Zapata y experta en loza cartagenera

Dia: 29 enero de 2025.

Hora: 17:45 h.

Lugar: 2ª planta del Museo Arqueológico Municipal.

Entrada libre hasta completar aforo.

 

 

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  TEMPORARY EXHIBITION: CARMEN CONDE'S JUBILEES
15/10/2024 - 29/01/2025

The exhibition commemorates the 90th anniversary of the publication in 1934 of Carmen Conde's second collection of poems entitled Júbilos. Poems of children, roses, animals, machines and winds.

This publication marked the first great consecration of Carmen Conde as a writer and was even declared a reading book in National Schools in the Official Bulletin of the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts of Spain. The prologue of the collection of poems is by the writer Gabriela Mistral, future Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1945, and is illustrated by the avant-garde artist Norah Borges, as pointed out by the curators of the exhibition Cari Fernández and Fran Garcerán of the Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver Trust.

During the tour of the exhibition we will be able to see manuscripts, photos and drawings that form part of Carmen Conde's personal legacy, which is kept by the Cartagena City Council in the Patronato Carmen Conde y su Museo. From the first edition of the publication, to the handwritten prologue by Gabriela Mistral and some drawings by Norah Borges, are part of the exhibition.

The exhibition of these documents is complemented by large panels displaying a selection of poems by Júbilos, and a short audiovisual presentation that brings us closer to the figure of Carmen Conde.

Carmen Conde is one of the most important milestones in our recent history, as she was the first woman to receive the National Prize for Literature in 1967 and to be elected a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1978. Among other distinctions, she was also recognized by the Spanish Center for Cinema for Children and Youth as a Pioneer of Children's Cinema in Spain in 1982 and received the National Prize for Children's and Youth Literature in 1987.

Today, the personal archive of Carmen Conde, which she bequeathed by testament to the City Council of Cartagena and forms the current Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver Trust, is the largest public archive belonging to a writer preserved in Spain, in Europe and, as far as is known, in America. As the curators point out, thanks to the enormous care with which Carmen Conde preserved her archive, all the materials on display belong to her personal legacy.

The opening of the exhibition coincides with the presentation of the new edition of the book Júbilos . Poems of children, roses, animals, machines and wind, published by Torremozas under the supervision of Cari Fernández and Fran Garcerá . The students of Libreta Mandarache will offer a reading of some poems.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 15 October 2024 to 29 January 2025.

About the commissioners:

Cari Fernández Hernández has a degree in Hispanic Philology and a Diploma in Library Science and Documentation. Since 1996, the year of Carmen Conde's death and the reception of her cultural legacy by the Cartagena City Council, she has worked at the Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver Trust. Together with Fran Garcerá, she has produced various critical editions, such as the documentary trilogy by Carmen Conde and Amanda Junquera in 2021 (Poems to Amanda, Epistolary 1936-1978 and Theatre); the Epistolary (1944-1986) between Carmen Conde, Amanda Junquera, Alfonsa de la Torre and Josefina Romo Arregui (2022); or, most recently, the collection of poems Júbilos (2024) by the Cartagena writer.

Fran Garcerá holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Valencia. He was a predoctoral FPI researcher at the CCHS of the CSIC in Madrid between 2015 and 2019. He has published scientific editions of the works of Margarita Ferreras, Mercedes Pinto, Concha Méndez, María Cegarra Salcedo, Carmen Conde, Concha Espina, Josefina de la Torre, Pilar de Valderrama, Amalia Domingo Soler, Eladia Bautista y Patier, Dolores Catarineu, Josefina Romo and María Dolores de Pablos, among others. He compiled the correspondence kept by the writers Carmen Conde and María Cegarra Salcedo between 1924 and 1988 (Torremozas, 2018), the most extensive correspondence exchanged by two Spanish authors and published to date. Together with Marta Porpetta, he has published the volume Versos con faldas. History of a literary gathering founded by Gloria Fuertes, Adelaida Las Santas and María Dolores de Pablos (Torremozas, 2019). In 2020, she obtained the Visiting International Fellowship Award from the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI), to disseminate her research in different universities and cultural centers in the United Kingdom. Today she is an Archive and Library Technician at the Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver Trust of the Cartagena City Council.

From October 15 to January 29, 2025

Cartagena Roman Theatre Museum
Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 9
30201 Cartagena, Murcia (Spain)
Telephone: (+34) 968 504 802
www.teatroromanocartagena.org

Cartagena City Council. Carmen Conde- Antonio Oliver Board of Trustees

Commissioners

Charity Fernandez

Fran Garceran

Cartagena Roman Theatre Foundation:
Cartagena City Council
Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia
Caja Murcia Foundation

Iberdrola Foundation

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  Call for Municipal Hall Exhibitions
30/10/2024 - 31/01/2025

 

Cartagena City Council has opened the deadline for submitting exhibition projects to be held in Cartagena's municipal exhibition spaces during 2025 until January 31, following the approval of the selection criteria. 

The exhibition spaces are: Dora Catarineu Cultural Room, the exhibition rooms of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center, Carlos Gallego Room and the one on the First floor.

In neighborhoods and districts: “Los Puertos de Santa Bárbara” Ethnographic Museum, Miranda Social Club, La Palma Cultural and Sports Center, and the Apolo Theater in El Algar.

The deadline for submitting projects will be until January 31, 2025. Interested parties must submit their applications and projects to the General Registry of the City Council located in the Administrative Building, Calle San Miguel No. 8, 30201- Cartagena, either in person or electronically, with an electronic certificate, on the website https://cartagena.sedipualba.es/

As a general rule, the exhibition periods in the different galleries will be between two and three months, not including assembly and disassembly. The artists must accept the conditions, collaborate in the assembly, and provide promotional materials. The City Council will cover basic transport and assembly costs.

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  PORTICUS by Torregar
27/11/2024 - 27/04/2025

PORTICUS by Torregar
11/27/-2024/04-28-2025

The PORTICUS exhibition by José Antonio Torregar is part of a painting project that the artist has been working on for more than eight years, a large series with more than two hundred works from which a selection has been made for exhibition at the Roman Theatre Museum in Cartagena. 

In this project, the artist has immersed himself with his brushes in the great corpus of works from the classical world, immortal works that have come down to us in different circumstances, and many of which decorated forums and porticos in Antiquity to embellish public meeting spaces. These Greek and Roman sculptures have been his source of inspiration, and bring us closer to our classical heritage, to our own identity as European citizens of the 21st century. 
In the tour of the exhibition, the viewer will be confronted with a creative process where painting is used as a poetic language and evokes the artist's profound admiration for the beauty of these sculptural works, placing the focus of attention especially on the feminine world of Venus/Aphrodite. These works are born from the perspective of contemporary art where the artist seeks in the ancient world a meeting point and a point of dialogue.

This process has led the artist to carry out a pictorial exercise that manifests itself through the successive layers of colour that can be partially seen as a stratigraphic sequence, as if the passage of time had taken its toll on the paintings themselves, creating glazes of time, and where Torregar has played with processes of construction and destruction of matter, resulting in works that invite the viewer to rediscover the different textures and finishes of the paintings.

In this exhibition, Torregar brings us closer to the splendour of Greco-Latin culture, which is the basis of our heritage and a fundamental pillar of our Western culture. In it, the goddesses Aphrodite and Athena engage in dialogue with great historical figures such as the poet Homer, Alexander the Great and the Emperor Augustus himself.

About the artist

José Antonio Torregrosa García, 'Torregar' , was born in 1978 in Ceutí (Murcia), the city where he resides, has his studio and has developed much of his work. 

Torregar is a contemporary visual artist who reflects on human existence, the passage of time and its reflection on the face. Themes that, along with flesh, memory, conservation and the question of identity, are the main themes of his work.

After completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades in Murcia, she graduated in Fine Arts at the San Carlos Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where she completed her doctoral studies. She received several scholarships, such as the Erasmus scholarship that allowed her to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (1999-2000) or the residency scholarship at the Antonio Gala Foundation, Córdoba (2003-2004). In addition, she has trained with great professionals such as Joan Fontcuberta, Pablo Genovés, Marina Abramovic, Antonio López and Javier Pérez. 

Since 2008 he has been an associate professor in the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia, where he teaches the subjects 'Pictural procedures and techniques' and 'Pictural projects'. In his teaching work, he transmits his passion for art in all its expressive possibilities and his curiosity for researching the subject.

He has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, as well as a number of group exhibitions. His work is included in public and private collections, both national and international, such as the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and the ESU Università di Ca'Foscari in Venice (Italy); the University of Murcia, the University of Valencia, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Alicante), the Contemporary Art Funds of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the FIES Spanish Institutional Foundation (Madrid), the Lalín Municipal Museum (Pontevedra), the Glasets Hus Museum (Limmared, Sweden), the Open-Air Museum of Ceutí (Murcia), the Mula City Museum, the Convent of San Francisco de Mula (Murcia), the Valdepeñas Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Letters and Watermark (Fabriano, Italy), the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice (Italy), the Antonio Gala Foundation (Cordoba), the Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation (Madrid), the Caja Murcia Foundation, the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and the Langreo Art Gallery (Asturias), among many others. 

Throughout his career he has received important awards, including First Prize in the 41st Villa de Sant Joan d'Alacant Painting Competition (2008) and the 'Un futuro DEARTE' award, Madrid (2008); he also won First Prize in the “5th Iberdrola-Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Painting Competition” (2007) and, in 2006, the Art Nalón National Prize for Plastic Arts, Langreo (Asturias).

Temporary Exhibition Hall of the Cartagena Roman Theatre Museum
Cartagena Roman Theatre Museum
Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 9
30201 Cartagena, Murcia (Spain)
Telephone: (+34) 968 504 802
www.teatroromanocartagena.org

Cartagena Roman Theatre Foundation:
Cartagena City Council
Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia
Caja Murcia Foundation
Collaborator
Iberdrola Foundation

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  THIS IS POP! 50 YEARS OF ART, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE
27/11/2024 - 23/02/2025

THIS IS POP! 50 YEARS OF ART,

MUSIC AND POP CULTURE

 

Pop art emerged in Britain in the mid-1950s and in the US in the late 1950s. In both the visual arts and music, this art movement had much to do with post-war culture and popular media, especially television and film: artists challenged tradition by assuming that they could use visual elements of popular culture and turn them into art.

It is widely recognized that Pop Art coincided with the pop music phenomenon of the 1960s and was closely associated with the fashion and liberal image of London at that time , as was American society and its cultural transformations.

The most famous American artist was Andy Warhol, who  had a special interest in film stars and this passion was reflected in his work when he began creating portraits of Marilyn Monroe after her death in 1962.

The technique most used by pop artists was silkscreen printing, a process specifically designed for mass production.

The main artists included in this exhibition are, among others, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Allen Jones, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, Yayoi Kusama, Equipo Crónica, Equipo Realidad, Eduardo Arroyo, Rafael Canogar, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, Yoshitomo Nara, Julian Opie, Mr., Shepard Fairey (Obey), Kaws, D*Face, Boamistura.

 

TOWN HALL

SCHEDULE

MONDAY: CLOSED
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY: MORNING 10:00-13:30. AFTERNOON 17:00-19:00
SATURDAYS: MORNING 10:00-13:30. AFTERNOON: 17:00-20:00
SUNDAYS: MORNING 10:00-13:30. AFTERNOON CLOSED
HOLIDAYS: MORNING 10:00-13:30.

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  BISEL ART GALLERY. JOSE LUIS ANGULO. 'MEETING PLACES'.
28/11/2024 - 11/01/2025

THE SILENCES OF A HAPPY PAINTER


The silences in José Luís Angulo’s work are the spaces that define the painting for us, they identify us with it and through them we peer into its gaze. His silences are extensive patches of colour, chromatic masses that dominate our vision of the work at first. Also, in some of them, these silences can be the “non-colour” – his empty spaces of paint are his plastic elements to enter his landscapes.

José Luís explains this artistic decision in his interest in provoking opposition, contrast with the landscape, volume, objects, clearly identifiable motifs, even atmospheres; but also in his “sounds”, those small chromatic masses that he incorporates as instruments to create rhythm in his compositions, providing them with a vital tension between spaces, colours and objects. It reminds me of a quote from RM Rilke when talking about Cézanne, who said that “painting is something that happens between colours, how they must be left alone so that they define themselves completely.”

If we follow the career of this artist, we see that little by little he has been stripping himself of an intense gaze and a desire to reflect the whole landscape, creating works where the maturity of his art is reflected in a jovial inspiration, a spontaneity brimming with luminosity. And here I must speak of another of his qualities, which is the happiness that his works transmit.

For me, José Luís is a happy artist, who faces his work with humility and is willing to learn, but also to enjoy the act of painting itself, satisfied with letting himself be caught up in the colours and apprehending nature with freedom. The chromaticism, the play of tones, the effectiveness of his compositions, everything overflows with joy, satisfaction and transmits with strength and brilliance that intimate joy of painting.


Moments of happiness that he transmits to us and for which we who contemplate his works are grateful.


Flora Molina Pantiga

 

SCHEDULE 

Monday 10:30–13:30, 18:00–20:30

Tuesday 10:30–1:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Wednesday 10:30–13:30, 18:00–20:30

Thursday 10:30–13:30, 18:00–20:30

Friday 10:30–13:30, 18:00–20:30

Saturday 10:30–13:30

Sunday Closed

 

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  EL BATEL: Gabriel Navarro exhibits 'LONELINESS-IA. The imaginary future of loneliness and artificial intelligence'.
27/12/2024 - 07/02/2025

 

LONELINESS – AI. THE IMAGINARY FUTURE OF LONELINESS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, by Gabriel Navarro

"Loneliness is one of the most relevant symptoms of our society. There is sought-after loneliness and unwanted loneliness, the latter increasing enormously and causing serious mental and physical health problems.

In November 2023, the World Health Organization declared loneliness a global health priority and created a new Commission on Social Connection. In the European Union, an estimated 30 million people feel lonely on a regular basis.

In Sweden, one in four people dies alone. In 2018, the United Kingdom appointed a minister for loneliness for the first time. Almost 93% of Spaniards consider unwanted loneliness to be a major social problem.

Through applications of current Artificial Intelligence (called “weak”), resources have been developed to deal with situations of loneliness with notable results, such as: the ElliQ robot, the SERENA chatbot, the WOEBOT conversational agent, the STOP algorithm, the YOUPER treatment platform, the REPLIKA system, the SENIOR MONITORING behavior control through smartphones, the CELIA virtual assistant or the TEMI robot, among others. And, according to some experts, in the future “general” Artificial Intelligence will play a substantial role.

Can we imagine and visualize our future solitudes addressed by Artificial Intelligence devices, according to the vision that AI itself generates from our current perspectives of loneliness?

This project exhibits photographs of people in a condition or state of solitude and images produced by an Artificial Intelligence platform, created from each of the previous photographs.

Alongside these images, texts by various authors of literature and science fiction on loneliness are shown, which allow us to reflect on our role as humans."

The exhibition can be visited until February 7, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

 

Gabriel Navarro

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