The University of Jaén presents until June 30, in the Exhibition Hall of the Old School of Teaching, the exhibition-installation by photographer and architectural historian Joaquín Bérchez "Gozar de toda su hermosura/Enjoy all its beauty. Cathedral of Jaén".
The installation of Joaquín Bérchez, is presented with fourteen photographs some of them taken with surprising or unusual points of view of the renaissance cathedral jienense, work of the Vandelvira (father and son). The shots, some made from the interior balconies to the large nave, reflect the splendid Renaissance work done in this Andalusian cathedral, elevating the observer and giving him a privileged viewpoint. Making the viewer feel an idealized, close and transcendent point of view.
 
As Jorge Fernández-Santos writes in the catalog of the exhibition, Bérchez argues from the photograph the peculiar circuit of galleries and rooms with balconies to the cathedral temple and turns us into spectators of their inside-spaces transformed into an urban forum, in the main plaza sacra. The photographic quadrangular prisms, illuminated inside and with the room in gloom would come to suggest these civil galleries, as if the photographer wanted to accommodate us on a continuous and raised balcony, surrounding the interior thus unveiled the cathedral.

A quiet scene, trapped in a soft light forgeting strident constrast and where the traces of its occupants, (seats, liturgical elements, confessionals ...) give the human reference that accentuates the scale of the building. Joaquín Bérchez shows us his renewed perception of the building from an educated scenic vision in a conical perspective, from which he does not avoid an intentional theatricality, which leads us to imagine "the diaphanous space of the temple, the classical elegance of its columnar pillars or the light Of their vaults of calligraphic stereotomy."

The installation allows the spectator to have the sensation of being immersed in the space of the cathedral, to be able to have a glimmer of joy as the catalog and the title of the exhibition reminds us, turning into a narrative argument the exhortation of the cult of José Martínez de Mazas ( 1794), looking at the interior of this cathedral from its balconies: "He who has to enjoy all its beauty must look at it from the windows and balconies that surround it above the Chapels. Then he will surely be surprised ... He will see the correspondence of all its parts, without there being one that undoes of the other nor in columns, nor in chapels, nor in windows, stained glass & c. and all high and great."

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Sala de Exposiciones (Antigua Escuela de Magisterio) Jaen. Spain
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06.04 > 30.06.2017
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Joaquín Bérchez Gómez, born in Montilla (Cordoba, Spain) in 1950, Bérchez is member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos and Full University Professor of History of Art in the University of Valencia, the city where he lives and works, combining the teaching job with his passion for photography and architecture. Joaquín Bérchez has transformed the photographs of the Valencian landscape in another tool for contemplation and for reflecting about territory.

The show gathers panoramic views from Ademuz to La Albufera, the views of the inlands and the coastline, showing accurately the vines, orange trees, palm trees, olive trees, paddy fields...which occur through a juxtaposition of ancient and modern, in an antrophized territory, shaped by human activity. From a vine to the remains of a Roman aqueduct or the still waters of the Mediterranean, the represented Valencian landscape acquires new perspectives in the eyes of Joaquín Bérchez. The professor delight us with pictures of our geography, of our landscape. Another excuse for remembering the recognition and the sentiment towards our territory and towards the landscape and heritage values that it has. The exhibition “Miscelànea Geogràfica” reflects the will and commitment of the University of Valencia to be present in the territoriy, in the local society. Its design and thematic responds to formal and conceptual objectives, in which dissemination through its travelling nature, and reflection through original aspects from the Valencian landscape and from a particular view of the author gain importance.
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Published on: May 3, 2017
Cite: "Interior of the Jaen Cathedral by Joaquín Bérchez" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/interior-jaen-cathedral-joaquin-berchez> ISSN 1139-6415
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