Teofil Mihăilescu

The exhibition is part of my cultural project dedicated to exploring the universe of architecture and sacred space from an anthropological perspective in the context of the symbolic paths of religions. If the previous exhibition was dedicated to the New and Old Testament worlds (From Sinai to Jerusalem, 2019), this one visits the context of the sacred spaces and the architectural universe of the Christian Catholic world. The exhibition’s photos were taken in Rome (2017) and all along famous European itineraries – El Camino Frances (2018) and El Camino Portugues (2019) travelled by bike. The time spent exploring these itineraries allowed a permanent direct contact with landmarks of the history of architecture and generated eagerness, emotions, an avalanche of thoughts-interrogations, savoury monologues-dialogues as well as many contradictions. The photos testify of the omnipresence of Antiquity in all the spectacular historical sites, of the countless and marvellous Romanic basilicas and Gothic cathedrals that adorn The Way like symbolic pearls of a long rosary, and of the vivid experience of the fascinating Cristian-Islamic fusion in architecture. The opening of the exhibition took place on Saturday, May 30, 2020. It was the first exhibition opening broadcasted live on-line in Romania during the lockdown and Covid19 pandemic. The photos of the exhibition extend a warm invitation to meditation and to dialogue among the great values of humankind: Love, Tolerance and Truth.