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On Monday, June 19, at 20.00 hours, the temporary exhibition PHOTOGRAPHICA OVIDIANA by Joaquín Bérchez will be inaugurated at the Teatro Romano de Cartagena.
The show is the result of a project that seeks to recreate from the photographic fiction, the current scenarios and the emotional landscape of Ovid's exile.
The magnitude of his poetic legend from distant lands border, as the scenarios lived around the statues or plaques of streets and squares commemorating his person.
The poetry of the exile of Publius Ovidio Nason (Sulmona, 43 BC-Tomis, 17 AD), composed during the last ten years of his life, has exerted a powerful shadow that reaches, even today, the City of Constanta (Romania), the former Tomis, scene of the exile.
In Photographica Ovidiana, by Joaquín Bérchez, those places impregnated by that invisible Ovidian rumor have been a source of inspiration;
The softness of the fields of wheat and sunflowers of the Dobruja region, the port of the Black Sea-the Euxine Point, or the Danube river delta-Istrio-like those classic sediments of Greek friezes and gravestones in Histria, or Amphoras and Roman mosaics of Constance.
In this unique set of mirrors, Sulmona emerges - the homeland of Ovid - invoked from the misfortune of loneliness in distant frontier lands.
Like the Convent of Exile, Ovid's hometown abounds in artistic achievements, such as its bookish statue, dating back to 1474, or the replica of the statue of Ettore Ferrari in Constance, erected in Piazza XX Settembre.
The photograph of Joaquín Bérchez brings to view these places but also the endless daily uses, touched by a random antiquity without time and lavish on urban plates, shop windows, handmade models or local liquors.
The exhibition brings us closer to the figure of Ovid and its transcendence, with it the Museum of the Roman Theater joins the celebration of the bimillennial of the death of the poet Publius Ovidio Nason in AD 17 in Tomis, the present Constanza.
The exhibition will be open until August 28.
The project was developed by Esteban Bérchez Castaño and Joaquín Bérchez, and incorporates a PHOTOGRAPHICA OVIDIANA video by Joaquín Bérchez and Juan Peiró.
Joaquín Bérchez
Photographer and historian of architecture, professor of History of Art at the University of Valencia (1992-2010) and academic at the San Carlos University of Valencia.
His photographic activity is linked to his historical-artistic interests.
His photographic work has been exhibited in numerous Spanish cities (Valencia, Murcia, Salamanca, Granada, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Seville, Teruel, Toledo), and in various international cinemas: New York (Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, Tolsa Joaquín Bérchez-Photographs ), In Vicenza (Museo Palladio, Architectural Propositions), Palermo (University of Palermo, Other Baroque), Rome (Royal Academy of Spain, Architectural Proposals), Camerino (Palazzo Ducale- Sala della Colonna, , Lisbon (Museum of Popular Art, Architecture, the pleasure of the look) or Athens (El Greco, Architeto de Retablos).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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