ILLUSTRATIONS OF TIME
Impressions from the Edfu Temple
 

ILLUSTRATIONS OF TIME
Impressions from the Edfu Temple

An exhibition by
Asunción Jódar Miñarro and Ricardo Marín Viadel
in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,

February 8^th – April 8^th 2010

Opening on February 8^th, 2010 at 6pm

  
On the 8^th of February, the Cervantes Institute presents an exhibition of monumental drawings of the priests from the temple of Edfu at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which hosts a gallery of contemporary art for the first time.

The pioneering exhibition, titled "Illustrations of time: Impressions from the Edfu temple”, consists of hundreds of the artwork by Spanish painters and teachers Asunción Jódar Miñarro and Ricardo Marín Viadel.

The drawings, many of which are over two meters in height, were made between 2005 and 2010 based on sketches from life and photographs of the 31 priests’ figures from the west staircase of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus in Edfu, Egypt.

During their trips to Egypt, Jódar and Marín sketched out around 300 drawings. A hundred of which were selected in order to become part of the museum’s collection and form a dialogue between artists from the different eras.

It is exposing a specific location - the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Because of that, the authors have taken into account the characteristics of the artifacts that are in the museum’s halls, their organization, as well as the building’s lighting.

The idea behind the exhibition is to portray the visit of the priests from the temple of Horus in Edfu, to Cairo where by for two months, they will travel with the existing pieces in the rooms 50, 49, 45, 40, 35, 30 and 25 (which correspond with the final period of the Pharaonic civilization).

Illustrations of time. Impressions from the Edfu Temple proposes a meeting between the ancient and contemporary art, between artists and audiences, as well as contrasts between the different art materials (stone and paper).

With this show, the Egyptian Museum follows the likes of other significant international counterparts, such as the British Museum in London, and the Prado Museum of Madrid. All who have welcomed numerous collections of contemporary art into their rooms.

The exhibition will later move to Granada, Spain, in three locations simultaneously: the exhibition hall CajaGranada, the Cultural Center CajaGranada Memory of Andalusia, and the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of Granada.

Illustrations of time. Impressions from the Edfu Temple has been jointly organized by the Cervantes Institute in Cairo, the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, and the University of Granada.

The curators of the exhibition are Dr. Wafaa El Saddik, general director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and Dr. D. Roman de la Calle, director of the Valencian Museum of Illustration and Modernity and president of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, Spain.

The opening ceremony will take place at the Egyptian Museum on February 8^th at 6pm and will feature the artists themselves; Asunción Jódar and Ricardo Marín.

 JÓDAR MIÑARRO, Asunción: (Lorca, Spain, 1955) Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts by the Complutense University of Madrid and Ph.D. Degree in Fine Arts by the University of Granada. She is currently Director of the Department of Drawing of the University of Granada and she is the Head Researcher of the group Composition and Narrative in Contemporary Drawing (Andalusia Research Plan).

Several of his works are in private and public collections including the Spanish National Engraving Collection, the Contemporary Art Collection of the University of Granada, the Contemporary Art Collection of the Andalusia Women’s Institute, the Foundation Rodríguez Acosta and the CajaGranada Foundation. Books: (2004) The Network Weaving with texts by Ana Rossetti; (2006) For drawing and writing. Solo exhibitions: (1991) The symmetry, the damn composition, gallery Triunfo of the Caja General de Ahorros de Granada. (1993) Portraits of birds and flowers, gallery of the Caja General de Ahorros de Granada in Ubeda. (1994) The lost paradise. Paintings and drawings. Palace of the Diputación, Jaén. (1996) Portraits on a shared days background. Palace of the Madrasa, University of Granada. (1999) Night on mirrors, and the day in the wind, Palace Dar-Al-Horra, Granada. (2005 and 2006) Genetic counterparts, Museum of Adra (Almería) and Euro-Arab Foundation of Granada. (2006) Wrapping fashion, gallery Puertas de Castilla, Murcia.

MARÍN VIADEL, Ricardo. (Valencia, Spain, 1955). Bachelor in Fine Arts (Painting) by the University of Barcelona, and Ph.D. in Philosophy and Education by the University of Valencia. Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Valencia (1980-81), Professor of Art Education at the University of Barcelona (1981-84) and at the Complutense University of Madrid (1984-88). Currently professor of Art Education in the School of Fine Arts and the School of Education at the University of Granada.

Published books and exhibition catalogues: (1981) El realismo social en la plástica valenciana 1964-1975 [Social realism in fine arts in Valencia from 1964 to 1975]. (2000) Utopías ácidas [Acidic Utopias]. (2003) Equipo Crónica: pintura, cultura, sociedad [Equipo Crónica: painting, culture, society]. (2003) Didáctica de la Educación Artística [Teaching Art Educación]; (2005) Investigación en Educación Artística [Research in Art Education]; (2007) Colección de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Granada [Collection of Contemporary Art of the University of Granada]. Inquiry into: teaching methodologies in Art Education, and Visual Arts based Educational Research.

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