The Polo Museale della Basilicata is pleased to present the exhibition "L'Anima del Gotico Mediterraneo", photographs by Luis Agustìn - Aurelio Vallespìn - Ricardo Santonja of the Department of Architecture of the University of Zaragoza to the entire community of Matera 2019.
The exhibition will be inaugurated Thursday, January 31, 2019, at 18.00 in the Hall of Arcades of the Museum of Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera and can be visited until March 3, 2019.
Marta Ragozzino, Director of the Pole Museum of Basilicata will take part; Paolo Verri, Director of the Matera - Basilicata Foundation 2019; Antonella Bellomo, Prefect of Matera, Alfonso Dastis, Ambassador of Spain in Italy and in San Marino; Luis Agustìn (one of the authors of the exhibition) and the Commissioner for Matera Ignacio Cabodevilla.
Supported and financed by the Government of Aragon, the project was born with the intention of implementing a cultural, academic and research exchange between different countries of the European Union - Sicily and Campania, in Italy; the Languedoc - Roussillon in France; Catalonia, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and Aragon in Spain - to document the common elements of architecture developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the territories concerned.
A choral tour that has seen the active involvement, as well as the Government of Aragon (Department of Education, University, Culture and Sports and Directorate General of Cultural Heritage) and the University of Zaragoza, the Spanish Embassy in Italy, 'University of Salerno, of the Cervantes Institute of Naples, but also of numerous institutions that have been happy to open their doors allowing them to study and photograph their cultural heritage.
The result is a fascinating photographic journey in the Mediterranean Gothic of the places of the ancient Crown of Aragon, a precious contribution in the increasingly current search for an identity of the Mediterranean, within a "multi-faceted" European identity, in one of the moments more delicate than the brief history of the European Union.
You're invited!