The Mediterranean as Conflict
Devoted to an analysis of the sociocultural reality of the Mediterranean, this show questions whether this geographical area exists as a cultural, political or social entity. The exhibition, which is arranged in two parts, reflects firstly on the myth, that of the intellectuals from the north of Europe who travelled south in search of the lost Arcadia. Some of them did so to improve their health, others to encounter a much freer vision of the human body as an element of pleasure, without the taboos of Protestant countries. To illustrate this idyllic image of the Mediterranean there are photographs by the German photographers Wilhelm von Gloeden and Herbert List, and paintings by Pinazo, Sorolla, Picasso and Muñoz Detrain. Read more.
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