Espai d'Art Joan Castejón in Dénia celebrates sixth anniversary with exhibition and concert

The Espai d'Art Joan Castejón, located on the ground floor of Dénia's Casa de la Cultura, marks six years since its opening on 6 October 2020. As La Marina Times previously reported, the celebration began last Friday with the opening of a new exhibition.

The show, titled "D'un temps, d'un país", is a retrospective by Carme Jorqués, born in Xàtiva and specialising in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts San Carlos in Valencia. The exhibition is part of a series of visual poems paying tribute to writers and poets such as Miguel Hernández, Mercè Marçal, Isabel-Clara Simó and Ovidi Montllor, and can be visited until 9 January 2027.

Elena Bjuan concert

The special anniversary programming continues this Friday 16 October at 19:30 with composer and trumpeter Elena Bjuan from Altea, who will present her album "Morfolia" at the venue itself.

Regarding the figure honoured in the exhibition, Carme Jorqués described Miguel Hernández and Ovidi Montllor as poets "always committed to working people; authentic artisans of the word", and added that "both remembered the incoherencies of the system, tenderness and social justice". Jorqués also stressed that the idea that culture generates wealth "ceased to be a hypothesis long ago. Culture generates wealth", and described Dénia as "a city of art and culture".

The councillor for Culture, Raúl García de la Reina, explained that the space was created six years ago to "settle a historical debt owed by the city to the artist", referring to Joan Castejón, Adopted Son of the city since 1999, who donated 35 of his works to the museum—oil paintings, drawings and sculpture—representative of his career from the 1960s to the present day. For his part, Castejón valued that "we have succeeded in making it a point of attraction and dissemination of culture that has placed contemporary art in Dénia in the place where it belongs".