SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, June 6. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Culture, Education, Vocational Training and Universities, Román Rodríguez, inaugurated on Monday in the Gaiás Center Museum of the City of Culture ‘In Vía da Prata. South Aires‘, an exhibition that, according to Xunta, “claims the cultural and historical heritage of the Way” from Seville to Santiago de Compostela through the eyes of 40 figures of classical and contemporary photography. The exhibition, now open to the public, composes a carousel of 140 images that “cross centuries and paths” along one of the paths that “best embodies the diversity of the Jacobean itineraries”.
At the beginning, the Minister of Culture of the Galician Government underlined the “fundamental contribution” of this exhibition to “promote greater knowledge and enhancement of the Via da Prata “ and “its importance in the configuration” of Galician identity as a “point of confluence of different cultures”.
Likewise, for the representation of this “path of paths”, the exhibition brings together “studios and artists consecrated among the great masters of photography” and current photographers who “discover the most unknown reality” from cities in Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla y León and Galicia. For the conselleiro, this exhibition builds “a unique story” in which the visitor “places himself from the point of view of the pilgrim”, sharing a “curious” look of the artists who have toured the same places “.
Classic and emerging photographers
Among the classical figures included The Galician José Suárez, Luis Agromayor, Martínez de Hebert, Jaimae Pacheco and also international photographers such as Nicolás Muller, Otto Wunderlich, Jean Laurent or António Passaporte, among others, participated in the exhibition.
In the most contemporary part, there are works by Cristina Garcia Rodero and Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, both winners of the national photography prize, along with other prominent names such as Carmenchu German, Anna Turbau, Vicente Lopez Tofiño, Atin Aya or Fernando Manso and emerging figures such as Laura Martinez Lombardia, Yorgos Kaeste or Javier Berasaluce.
Also, there will also be the look of Antón Buciños from Ourense, Brais Lorenzo, Tere Fernández and Miguel Muñiz, Iñaki Matilla, Manuel G. Vicente and Roberto de la Torre from Vigo and Luis Otero from Compostela.
