The Sala Milano in Barcelona hosted the 2018 Emporia National Awards ceremony last night. Among the award winners, the exhibition of MARQ "Rupestre. The First Sanctuaries", awarded with the Silver Emporia 2018 in the category of '.best mounting of a non-travelling ephemeral exhibition', designed by Rocamora Arquitectura and architect Rafael Pérez. The Spanish National Awards for Architecture, Design and Ephemeral Decoration select the best works carried out in our country in 2018 by architects, decorators, designers, agencies, specialised companies and other professionals. A distinction that the MARQ already received in 2017 for the exhibition "Mayas. The mystery of the lost cities".On that occasion it was awarded the Emporia de Oro, also made by the team of the architect Ángel Rocamora, who was in charge of collecting this important distinction last night.
The exhibition design of Rupestre started in its first room with a nod to the Altamira Caves to show Palaeolithic art through panels and pieces of movable art from the north and centre of the peninsula; The second room focused on the Pla de Petracos, to show the essence of Neolithic and Macro-schematic Art in this main enclave of Prehistory in Alicante; the exhibition culminated in the third room, with an evocation of the influence of Prehistoric Art on Contemporary Art with the work of Miquel Barceló, Il pittore a Bologna (1983). Also worthy of note were the sound landscapes in the rooms and the accessibility resources provided to open this exhibition to all audiences, together with the montage 'Rupestre versus Contemporáneo' by the Alicante painter Dionisio Gázquez. Rupestre accompanied us from 5 July 2018 to 5 January 2019 and was visited by more than 85,000 people.
