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The art and history, together, can offer excellent results.
Proof of this is shown today in the Official College of Architects, whose showroom brings the sample "I have a dream (I have a dream). Tribute to Martin Luther King", organized by the municipalities of Murcia and Sitges and coordinated by Fundación Casa Pintada.
The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, presided at the unveiling of this commemorative group show that pays gratitude to the memory of a historical personality admired and even longed.
Together with Camera, have been present at the Councillor of Culture of the City of Sitges and curator, Gabi Serrano, councilors and Urban Culture, and Fernando Barnuevo Berberena Fatima, respectively, along with Cris Gabarrón.
More than thirty international artists have participated in this tribute to the arts, which arrives in Murcia after being visited in New York and touring American and Spanish cities.
Artists, thinkers and writers have offered their vision of the mythic speech that the August 28, 1963 in Washington uttered the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, who was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929.
Paintings and sculptures by artists such as, inter alia, TÃ pies, Feito, Canogar, Louis Bourgeois, Mona Hatoum, Richard Hamilton, John Uslé, Victoria Civera or Paco Leiro, transferred to plastic language that mythical intervention rights leader civilian, who was assassinated in 1968, four years after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
House has highlighted the interest of this exhibition helps to "refresh the message of an essential figure in the evolution of civil rights through a comprehensive vision techniques, disciplines and styles."
47 years ago, more than 20,000 people listened to his dream: "I dream of the day this nation will rise up to live according to their belief in the self-evident truth that all men are created equal (...) dream of the day my four children live in a nation where they will be judged by the color of their skin but by the integrity of his character. "
On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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