Paisajes Encontrados
The Museum Lazaro in Madrid is presenting the exhibition Paisajes Encontrados: El Bosco, Greco y Goya in where Jose Manuel Ballester starts from a selection of six paintings presents in the collection of the Museum Lazaro Galdiano.
Lugar para la Meditacion de Juan Manuel Ballester
Each of them are present with the intervention of Ballester, in which, through a intense and carefully method, he has eliminated the characters of the works, works that are an emblem like, El Conjuro or Las Brujas, El Aquelarre or La Era or El Verano by Goya; San Francisco en Extasis by El Greco; Meditaciones de San Juan Bautista by El Bosco or La vision de Tondal by El Bosco.
The exhibition is completed by another work, Cristo Agonizante con Toledo al Fondo by El Greco, given for the ocassion by Coleccion Banco Santander, and the paint Lugar para la Crucifixion, made from this last. Plus, Ballester shows the piece El Jardin deshabitado based on El Jardin de las Delicias from the Museo del Prado with a projection of video-art in where the artist interprets his work.
San Juan del Bosco
Through the exhibition the artist shows his interest for the marks of the time and the silence that it's behind, reflecting it on new stages and opening the paint to new narratives, like on Meditaciones de San Juan Bautista by El Bosco, there are exposed three visions of the paint: one that reproduce the paint, just like we known it, another in where all the characters are erased and one third, very singular, in where is saved the figure of the donor, a figure represented by El Bosco and, for some reason, we ignore, then he hidden completely painting over the big plant that represent the temptation.
San Francisco en Extasis del El Greco (izq) Vanitas de Jose Manuel Ballester (der)
Don't miss Jose Manuel Ballester. Paisajes Encontrados: El Bosco, El Greco y Goya at Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain until September 11, 2016.
