MARQ's exhibition programme for the second half of 2018 could not have been better received. Rupestrian. The First Sanctuaries has been visited by 2,441 people during the first weekend of the exhibition, an open days with which the Museum has wanted to bring the tracings, images and sensations that are experienced when entering the rock art shelters to all the people of Alicante and visitors. This exhibition commemorates the 20th anniversary of the inclusion by UNESCO of the Cave Art of the Mediterranean Arc of the Iberian Peninsula on its prestigious World Heritage list.
More than 250 pieces from 19 Spanish museums arranged in a carefully designed setting that leads us, in a tenuous, disturbing and scientifically rigorous atmosphere, from the recreation of the Altamira Cave in the first room, through the Macro-schematic Art of Alicante in the Sanctuary of Pla de Petracos in the second room, to the Neolithic expressions of Levantine and Schematic Art, of great richness in the province of Alicante, and evoked in the third room. In this last room, the exhibition culminates with an allusion to the great influence of Prehistoric Art on Contemporary Art, a fusion that we find in the work of the Mallorcan artist Miquel Barceló. The documentary on his peculiar process of creation and the painting The painter in Bologna (1983) are, without doubt, an attractive finishing touch to this walk through Prehistory.
Rupestrian. The first sanctuaries is an accessible exhibition, designed and structured so that it can be enjoyed by everyone and has a multitude of educational resources for accessibility, as one of MARQ's priority objectives is to promote the processes of normalisation and integration of people with disabilities in order to guarantee universal access to Archaeological Heritage.
