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| The exhibition, which deals with the concern for death, can be visited until November 30 at the Puertas de Castilla cultural center | The Puertas de Castilla cultural center launches the first 'Reactivos Culturales' project that sees the light: 'Splendor Lucis Aeternae', by the artist Juanjo Martínez Cánovas.This initiative, curated by Pedro Medina, was one of the more than one hundred selected from the audiovisual production line 'Puertas de Castilla', in which the Department of Culture and Heritage Recovery has invested 69,170 euros.This exhibition project, within the line of support for production, speaks of the concern for death.
Martínez Cánovas deals with the rationality of worrying about death before dying and that death affects some damage only to those who ask about it.Thus, visitors will be able to see a process of technical experimentation in which drawing, painting and sculpture dialogue with light and the projection of the super 8, on topics related to death, light, the passage of time and the footprint.
.The exhumation of the corpse of his grandfather caused Martínez Cánovas a concern that results in this project entitled Splendor Lucis Aeternae, which closes his doctoral thesis focused on durability in time, death and eternity, and which is entitled "Identity, imprint and revision of the concept of death in figurative artistic creation in the Region of Murcia (2000-2019)".Thus, the event that triggers this story, the exhumation of the grandfather's body, is perceived by Martínez Cánovas as an event that triggers a process that recalls a set of events to describe the survival of a person, although without resorting to causality or definition of seasons that follow one after another.For this reason, the exhibition proposes a free tour.
Even so, the visit necessarily has a beginning, which is made to coincide with the domestic sphere, that is, the one still marked by the safety and warmth of the family, concluding with the maximum intensity in the latest evidence of the investigation process , end and beginning of it.Martínez Cánovas seeks a first objective: the homage to the barely known grandfather, through the taxonomy of his life history; but there is also a second, derived from the previous one: reflect on the artistic act itself as an action to recall something that has happened.
The first brings to light the experiences of a person, to share them with the community to which he belonged; secondly, it is a project on the scene of memory, an exercise in which the past struggles to get out of the shadow of the particular; thus, when shown, it becomes the medium to analyze what it means to remember and how its narration can be produced.Therefore, Splendor Lucis Aeternae should not be understood only as the occurrence of the sediments of a family story, but as the impulse that we all have to remember, but with the particularity of unfolding without complexes the difficulty that exists in the relationship with a A past of which only vestiges remain, shamelessly exposing himself to feelings, traumas or desires that had been canceled.It is up to each viewer to internalize a work already delivered to the community, which is ultimately presented as a device for reflection, without succumbing to any nostalgic gaze.
Therefore, it is presented as a way of 'projecting' what had been forgotten and, above all, as a way to draw an order that allows visitors to approach their past in a different way, questioning the way in which phenomena they are usually revealed."The project 'Reactivos Culturales begins to materialize with this exhibition.
Since the Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, declared culture as an essential activity in the municipality of Murcia last April in an open letter addressed to the sector, we have worked intensively in this initiative, which was recognized at the European level as an example of good practices, "said Pacheco.The program assumes "the immediate contracting of cultural projects, and reaffirms the commitment to culture as a sector that generates wealth, innovation and, most importantly at this time, social cohesion.Juan José Martínez CánovasJuan José Martínez Cánovas (1980) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Murcia in 2008.
During his academic training, he obtained prestigious mobility scholarships such as the Socrates-Erasmus at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome or the Seneca-SICUE for the Alonso Cano Faculty of Granada.
Also the Scholarships for Retired Painters of the Palacio del Quintanar in Segovia and that of the Rodríguez Acosta Foundation in Granada are granted within the pictorial branch.He is currently finishing his doctoral thesis and teaches the subject of "Anatomical Drawing" in the Own University Degree Modeling and 3D Animation (UMU).He has been awarded the Scholarship for Plastic and Visual Arts Professionals for the Development of Research Projects (ICA) and with the Cultural Reactives Project of the Murcia City Council.In the last year he won the prize at the XLVII Villa de Fuente Álamo International Painting Contest and honorable mentions at the LII Villa de Sant Joan d`Alacant National Painting Contest and at the III Hellín National Painting Contest.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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