The versatile artist’s posthumous work delves into a research work that “goes to reveal the protohistory of Cartagena”.
The Mare Nostrum restaurant, located in the heart of the port of Cartagena, was the setting for the presentation of the book ‘Atlantis, Mastia, Tartessos’, based on intensive historical research on the city of Cartagena, written by Juan de la Cruz Teruel y Cintas, before his death in 2020.
Cartagena businessman Tomás Martínez Pagán, President of Ibermed Engineering and the Association of Industrial and Naval Maintenance of the Region of Murcia (Aemin) was in charge of presenting and moderating the event which was attended by a hundred guests representing different sectors of the port city.
For his part, the director of ‘Toros Noticias Murcia.com’, José Castillo Abreu, magnified the artist’s figure both personally and professionally during his participation.
Manuel García Iturriaga, head of the Editorial Fuente Clara de Córdoba, introduced the audience to this important work, a cultural event that reveals the protohistory of Cartagena, the evolution of the oldest era, surrounded by a distant cloudscape and the mist of millennia.
Finally, Mariló Marín Conesa, the artist’s wife, wanted to emphasize in her speech the passionate love that Juan de la Cruz professed for Cartagena and its storied history, and how it was the center of inspiration and creativity in most of his plays; not only as a painter and sculptor, but also as a historian and writer, as demonstrated in this publication.
And it is that Juan de la Cruz felt and was so touched the energy of countless centuries of existence and vicissitudes of our Trimilenaria, that his determined purpose of more than twenty years of research, study and sacrifice could not remain in the drawer. of oblivion.
«The author did everything to finish it, and when it was finished he commissioned me to do it, with the love and sweetness that distinguished him, in that this work is a new legacy of his was, one of many, around Cartagena, and he wanted it to be within everyone’s reach,” said Matías Barco, president of Cartagena for Charity.
Source: La Verdad
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