Visions of the Dama de Elche
‘LA ALCUDIA: a world of stories’ – a homage to the Dama de Elche and the deceased local archaeologist Rafael Ramos Fernández, is taking place at the city’s Sala Fundación Mediterráneo.
Councillor for culture Marga Antón explained at the inauguration that the exhibition project brings together 35 works by local artists and their visions of Iberian archaeological sites.
The exhibition commemorates the 125th anniversary of the discovery of the Dama de Elche, and Rafael Ramos Fernández for his contribupersonal
tion to making the city a reference point for Iberian art.
The ‘exhibition looks at the symbols of Iberian art and covers its different historical periods’, Sra Antón explained.
It is inspired by La Alcudia archaeological site and the Iberian and ancient discoveries excavated there, and is the ‘fruit of an individual research process’ carried out using the pieces found at the site.
It takes a journey through three eras and periods – archaic, classical and Iberian.
The artists have presented works in different styles and formats with which – through visions, materials, processes and methods – they have managed to capture the ‘essence of art from the Iberian past’.
Geometry, structural shapes, textures, lines, and abstraction; and Iberian decorative motifs and their symbols transport visitors on a journey to the past, via works in oil, watercolour, mixed techniques, as well as sculptures, wood work and stoneware.
Sala Fundación Mediterráneo can be found at Plaza Glorieta, with the entrance being at Calle Hospital, 18.