Xavier Mascaro until May 4 iron sculptures in the monastery of Silos
The exhibition, organized by the Museo Reina Sofia, reinterprets some religious symbols
28/02/1908 - C. BELLY
The artist Xavier Mascaro, next to one of eleven sculptures. / PACO EFELas SANTAMARÍA-iron sculptures by Xavier Mascaro abstract spirituality embedded yesterday at the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, where they will be on display until May 4, in a dialogue that reinterprets and updates the symbols of the religious tradition of the tenth century . Once
iron sculptures combined with stone, glass and bronze, and four drawings, included in the sample, number 23, which organizes Since 2000 the Reina Sofia Museum in collaboration with the Abbey and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Burgos in that locality and was inaugurated yesterday by those responsible.
"What is established is a dialogue between the once and present of this century with the X, playing with religious references, and placing the sculptures as they put the liturgical elements in these spaces", summed up the artist Born in Paris in 1965 and now lives halfway between New York and Madrid.
"I wanted the materials, scale and placement have a spiritual meaning, abstract but spiritual," stated Mascaro, who stands out from all the pieces on display in the basement of the Abbey cloister titled 'Departure', the iron skeleton of a ship with fabric sails aging. If that ship
exhibition opens in the other 'craft' of religion, the back of the cave has been placed Mascaro, "with every intention", three works in a similar provision that would have an altar in an abbey to highlight your spiritual quest.
The abbot, Dom Clemente Serna, recently arrived from Rome to attend the inauguration, acknowledged during the opening exhibition is "really impressed" and expressed his hope that, after contemplating the public 'is richer "to get there. Time and space
The Reina Sofia Museum director, Manuel Borja-Villel, pointed out on the Abbey that she get together "two very interesting" for a museum of modern art: "a specific time and space" .
"In museums we are accustomed to the isolation of the artwork from the world. The Reina Sofia is a national museum that they go beyond what their own buildings and this is a beautiful place full of history that not only can lose the opportunity to make these statements but should be encouraged " said.
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