Exposure “Doors Sevilla. Yesterday and Today” in Antiquarium, Seville

From 5 Dec. 22 February 2015.
Exposure “Doors Sevilla. Yesterday and Today”
Antiquarium, Seville

Opening hours:
-Monday, 25 December, 1 and 6 January: Closed.
-Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00-14:30 and 17:00-20:30.
-Sundays, holidays, 24 and 31 December: 10:00-14:30.
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The Institute of Culture and Arts of the City of Sevilla offers an exhibition where a comparison is shown between Sevilla yesterday and today, by walking through the doors of the city along its walled. It will be available from 5 December in Seville Antiqvarivm.

WHAT WAS SEEN AND NOT. WHAT IS AND IMAGINE

In 1868 occurs in Seville a historic event that will forever change the course of this city: tear down the wall and raised Almohad gates in the twelfth century. It takes maybe, the most important of its history in centuries past and future urban decision. But it was also a cultural decision, patrimonial, political and social. Sevilla would have a stone belt that kept him "fat" geographically, and began to shed its long avenues towards the suburbs that awaited its doors. Seven centuries had served the same size for the city to adopt a single behavior and a certain language. Seven centuries habits and customs almost identical thanks to those who either knew right away where the Midi was, how it is going to Carmona, out where the dead or where entered Meat.

Seven Centuries, and even spent two without that belt containing the customs and lifestyle. Today we feel that time passes much faster and forty years ago was an eternity, are now just five minutes. Maybe in the last century and a half has gone much further than in those seven centuries, but the stone is only time, and the gates are still there, silent witness of that time.

After knowing the great work done by journalist Juan Miguel Vega on the different ways to get into town ("22 ways to get in Sevilla", ABEC Editors), giving the idea a step further and develop it into an exhibition shows. The timeless accompanying hispalenses walls and stillness of its elements. These elements were mainly the protagonists of our work. The doors were held in this city in a unswervingly, the stones were gone but the meaning and place. We needed someone who could reflect on a photo which was not but breathed, and was Antonio del Junco, Photographer Official Tourism Consortium who had that magic. Therefore, the final speech we find in "The Gates of Seville Yesterday and Today"; It is the combination of power know that which once was and can not see, with everything today is and we can imagine.

Many of the pieces that we see today in this space were provided by the La Caixa Foundation, more back another year to work with a project of ICAS in a fundamental way for the development of the sample. In this new venture have joined other entities such as the ONCE Foundation, it shall make the exhibition discourse to people with visual disabilities, Tourism Consortium, thus consolidating its strong link between culture and tourism, and finally, the foundation FAICO, which introduce us literally inside the gates of Seville through mechanisms augmented reality.

The Antiqvarivm is the venue for this exhibition, undoubtedly is the most suitable place; a space in which speech is none other than that imagined what fable that is not.

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