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The Roman Theater of Cartagena, managed by the foundation that make up the Autonomous Community, the City of Cartagena and the Foundation Cajamurcia, opens tomorrow Monday (at 20:00 hours) the temporary exhibition 'Photographica Ovidiana' by Joaquín Bérchez.
The show is the result of a project that aims to recreate, from the photographic fiction, the current scenarios and the emotional landscape of the exile of the poet Publius Ovidio Nasón.
It intends, in this way, to represent the magnitude of its poetic legend through the cities related to its figure and the statues or plaques of streets and commemorative squares.
The Director General of Cultural Heritage, Juan Antonio Lorca, highlighted "the quality programming offered by what is the most visited museum in the Region of Murcia, through both exhibitions and visits, workshops and courses or seminars that always try to Relate contemporary art to history, especially with Roman times. "
During this month of June, he recalled, "the Museum of the Roman Theater is offering numerous guided tours, some of them theatrical, that reveal to the visitor the past of Cartagena, a city that has become an example in the recovery of the heritage and in a referent Of the cultural tourism of the Region ".
The exhibition
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 as far as the city of Constanta (Rumania), the ancient Tomis, Scenario of exile.
In Ovid's 'Photographica', the places impregnated by the history of Ovid have been a source of inspiration and the photographer has looked, for example, at the fields of wheat and sunflowers in the Dobruja region, the port on the Black Sea ( The Ponto Euxino) or the delta of the Danube river (Istrio), as well as in the classical sediments of Greek friezes and gravestones in Histria or the amphoras and Roman mosaics of Constanza.
In this unique set of mirrors emerges Sulmona, the motherland of Ovid, invoked from the loneliness.
Like the Convent of Exile, the hometown of Ovid welcomes works in its memory as its bookish statue, dating from 1474. In Constance, on the other hand, is the replica of the Ettore Ferrari statue, erected in Piazza XX Settembre.
The photograph of Joaquín Bérchez shows the visitor these places, at the same time that he approaches the figure of Ovid and its transcendence.
With this exhibition, the Museum of the Roman Theater joins the celebration of the bimillennium of the death of the poet, in AD 17 in Tomis.
The exhibition will be open until August 28, from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and on Sundays, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
It is a project developed by Esteban Bérchez Castaño and Joaquín Bérchez and the images also incorporates a video, also called 'Photographica Ovidiana', by Joaquín Bérchez and Juan Peiró.
Trajectory
Joaquín Bérchez is a photographer and historian of architecture.
Professor of Art History at the University of Valencia (1992-2010) and member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts San Carlos of Valencia, his photographic activity is united to his historical-artistic interests.
His work has been exhibited in numerous Spanish cities and in various international halls of cities such as New York, Vicenza, Palermo, Rome, Lisbon or Athens.
Source: CARM
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