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Joseph Kosuth’s new solo show at Vistamare in Pescara is based on the Roman poet Ovid. This is the first time the artist works with the contemporary of Horace and Virgil, who was born in Sulmona, in the province of L’Aquila, near Pescara. The work constitutes a series of appropriated texts written by Ovid under the rule of Augustus during the height of the Roman era, a very literate, cosmopolitan and sophisticated time.

Kosuth presents a selection of writings in both English and Latin that form both a site-specific overall installation running throughout the four-room gallery space, while at …