On The 17th of April 2024, the ‘Valencian Gothic Architecture,’ exhibition paid homage to the historical monuments of Valencia. Inaugurated by architect and painter José María Ordeig Corsini, the collection of historical monuments offers the spectators a representation of collective memory, interpreted through a pictorial style.
Held at the ‘Casino de Agricultura,’ an emblematic building and meeting point for the Valencian cultural world, Ordeig Corsini presents a compilation of monuments from the city’s ‘golden century’- the end of the Gothic period to the beginning of the Renaissance period.
The wall canvases are understood as a myriad of juxtaposed qualities, and Ordeig Corsini has experimented with new possibilities with colour and brushstrokes, decomposing masses and volumes into planes without gradients.
José María Ordeig Corsini was born in Valencia and is a Doctor of Architecture and Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarre. He entered the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in 1965. In recent years, he has combined his professional work as a teacher and town planner with his dedication to painting, holding several exhibitions in Pamplona and Valencia. This exhibition in particular presented an insight into the defining features of everyday life in Valencia- the historical monuments, and a representation of collective memory.
Report by Polly Watton
Article copyright ’24/7 Valencia’
CASINO DE AGRICULTURA
Carrer de les Comèdies, 12
46003 Valencia
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