The exhibition Spondyliano, a living memory by the artist David Celi, will be inaugurated on Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 3:00 PM at the Portoviejo Museum and Historical Archives, located on Olmedo Streets between Sucre and Córdova, in the capital of Manabi.

The Ministry of Culture and Heritage indicates that this exhibition contains 13 workscoded into three compositional models: the landscapingas the first type to artistically infer the appearance of a very real ecosystem, which at one point incorporates the animated presence of the Spondylus.

While the second model the infrared urbanisman urban landscape that is not visible to the ordinary eye, that contains the essence of time and the stories that take place within it.

Meanwhile he synthesis of orphic qualities It is the third model, in which every source of water is heated, as when the stream of the Child visits the equinox and spondylian nature connects with its environment and vitally announces to man the presence of stormy times, life announces death and this duality that Celi exposes. it in each of his works.

It is detailed that David Celi gives deep meaning to the memory of Spondylus, as an ancestral and immeasurable memory, through this psychically living series, present in the genetics of the inhabitants of this Andean coastal-Amazonian insular country.

The artist is interested in the connecting value of the soul of the Spondylus with Ecuador and the resulting radiance of life, which still proves to be unchanging in its coastal microhabitat, typical of the province of Manabí. The collection is part of the large Gaia series that the author himself will exhibit in Europe in 2023.

The exhibition is open to the public until December 31, 2023 and can be visited from Monday to Friday, from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Entrance is free. (JO)