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Odi et amo in the Roman Theater Museum of Cartagena] | The exhibition, inspired by the cantata Carl Orff on Catulo's poems, opens on Friday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. |
The exhibition 'Catulli Carmina.
Odi et amo 'makes an immersion in the classical world, inspired by the cantata created by the German composer Carl Orff, on the poems of Catullus (84-54 BC).
The verses of the Latin poet have been the source of inspiration for the artists Manuel Delgado, Elisa Ortega, Manolo Pardo and Rafa Richart.
The exhibition opens in the Temporary Room of the Museo Teatro Romano Cartagena on Friday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m.
The tour of the exhibition brings us first to the protagonists of the story, as if Roman portraits will be treated, and we are introduced to the passionate young Catullus and his beloved Lesbia.
In blue sky tone to his unfaithful friend, Caelus.
Also to the two prostitutes;
the desired and beautiful Ipsitilla, and the vicious and mad Ammiana.
Close this block of characters the Lanternari, who almost leaves the scene to illuminate with his lamp and warn that the work begins, young people are prepared to listen to the songs of Catullus, Audiamus.
From this moment on, the artists delve into the theatrical work and create, in another format, twelve plastic scenes that illustrate the 'Odi et amo' of Catullus and Lesbia, where each scene is accompanied by the verses of the poet in which our artists have been inspired.
The poet Catullus was the precursor of the Latin amorous elegy, away from myths and heroes, focused his lyric on his most intimate and personal experiences as well, in the so-called Poems to Lesbia related his passion, devotion, but also disappointment and hatred towards his beloved Clodia, a woman she called Lesbia in her verses.
To this is added the brilliant idea of ​​Orff to put music to these verses, in an impressive work composed for two soloists, chorus and a wide group of percussion and piano, where through the repetition of phrases and syncopated rhythms, it evokes that timeless sound as brought from Classical Antiquity.
A dynamic and rhythmic melody with a capella chorus and sung dialogues, which could be very similar to those that should have resonated between the stands of the Roman Theater of Cartagena
So the Orff cantata distributed in 12 scenes that have inspired the paintings of these painters sensitive to beauty and love.
Beginning with the call to the audience "listen and see", Audite acvidete !, Manuel Delgado places us on the stage of history by drawing an almost theatrical set where the characters appear, while Manuel Pardo in Odi et amo presents us on a blue background a Catullus who sings his desperate love for Lesbia.
In More Than a Thousand Kisses by Manolo Delgado, in dry point, he traces that love and desire rhythmically through the repetition in several visions of the faces of the lovers.
So the artists with their paintings trace a tour of the musical theater, closing this block the collage of Elisa Ortega, Mea Lesbia Culpa, whose letters as a graffiti stand on the wall in a passion red, while a dejected Catullus leaves the scene although Lesbia holds out her hand as if it were the Venus of the apple, and I would like to retain it.
The tour of the exhibition is an immersion in the classical world, in the Latin poetry of Catullus musically recovered by Carl Orff, where the poetic imagination and the word give birth, using stamping techniques, the works of artists from the perspective of art contemporary.
The look into the past of Manuel Delgado, Elisa Ortega, Manolo Pardo and Rafa Richart reflects that intention to reconnect with the ancient world as a meeting point and contemporary dialogue, and present a choral work born from the soul of the verses as a tribute to the ancient theater, in one place, the Roman theater of Cartagena, now recovered from memory.
The exhibition 'Catulli Carmina.
Odi et amo 'can be seen from April 27 to July 2 in the temporary exhibitions room of the Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena, for more information consult the web www.teatroromanocartagena.org
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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