Imprimatur talks about the construction of our cultural heritage, books, pictorial imagery and knowledge and the vicissitudes of their transmission.
The exhibition is organized around two video projections: a conversation between Francisco de Goya and the entrepreneur Martín Zapater and the trial of Galileo Galilei. The tour is completed with several photographic series revealing historical paintings in which the protagonists are books.
With ostensibly religious themes, these paintings created from the Middle Ages to the XNUMXth century addressed immutable truths through the iconography of saints or intellectuals commonly connected to the church.
The contemporary viewer evaluates the relevance of works of art solely according to their visual and aesthetic criteria, ignoring their indoctrinating purpose and the way they have presented divine intermediation in all sciences.
21 June – 8 August 2018
Community of Madrid – Sala Alcalá 31 — Alcalá, 31 Madrid —
Curator, Alicia Murría – Organization, Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deportes.
© Montserrat Soto, VEGAP Madrid, 2017
