Yareah Magazine

Por Isabel del Río

Cualquier artista es feliz cuando da a conocer su obra. Sin embargo,  sabemos cuánto trabajo hay detrás de la inauguración de cualquier  exposición y cuán difícil es el mundo que rodea a las galerías.

P.- ¿Qué tal, Francis? ¿Por qué una exposición colectiva? ¿Tiene  ventajas sobre una individual?
1.-Bien, preparando nuevas piezas.         
2.-Ha sido la manera de iniciar en BCN, al lado de algunos artistas ya consolidados, con un publico variopinto, y con buenas vibraciones.
3.-Creo que no, pero tiene el encanto de participar en un mismo escenario y compartir visiones distintas de expresar el arte.

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Ovid’s sculpture in Constanta (Romania)

Ovid square is in the old part of the city. It is a simple square below a brilliant dark blue sky which reminds the waves of the Black Sea and the colour of the river Danube, both of them so near and so enigmatic.
In the middle of the square, there is a sculpture made of bronze by Ettore Ferrari in 1887 to honour the great Latin poet Ovid, author of the Metamorphosis and Halieutica.
Ovid was exiled to Constanta (called Tomis in Roman times) by the emperor August. According to the poet, it was a “mistake” and current historians disagree about what sort of “mistake” he made: sexual, politician, religious?
Anyway, he arrives to his exile in the 8th a. C. and in spite of his requests, he never was forgiven, dying in this city in the 16th.
Here, he was sad, he missed his wife, family and friends. However, the neighbourhood was friendly with him: he received regular presents of bread and wine and, still, people of Constanta are proud of showing to the tourist stocks of Ovid’s times.