The cathedral of Guadix (Granada) hosts the exhibition The Mystery Man until May 31, a proposal that shows a hyper-realistic sculpture of the body that could have wrapped the Holy Shroud, carried out under the parameters of forensic medicine.
The mystery man: the man of the Shroud, by the artist and curator of the exhibition, Álvaro Blanco, analyzes the figure of Jesus Christ and its main attraction is the reproduction of the body of the Shroud of Turin, also known as the Shroud.
It is a volumetric and hyper-realistic recreation of the crucified body that could have been wrapped in this cloth that is kept in the Turin Cathedral.
The artists who have worked on the sculpture, made with latex and silicone, with human hair, weighing 75 kilos and 1.78 meters tall, have based themselves on the bleeding points of the feet, legs or knees that appear reflected in the Shroud.
Using this method, the body of Jesus has been anthropologically reconstructed, making tests with three-dimensional volumes and reflecting on it all the wounds he suffered on the cross.
The inauguration of the exhibition included the artist Estrella Morente, who interpreted Credo, a song that her father, Enrique Morente, adapted with the lyrics of the sonnet of San Juan de la Cruz
The Bishop of Guadix, Francisco Jesús Orozco, has appreciated the opportunity to host this exhibition in the Accitana headquarters, the oldest in Spain, and has pointed out that the exhibition combines “science and faith, which are the two wings of truth”.
The mystery man, which will then begin an international tour, offers the opportunity to get closer to the image of Jesus through a “moving iconographic update”, as detailed by the CEO of ArtiSplendore, the company that organizes the exhibition, Francisco Moya.
Moya has also pointed out that the presence in Guadix of this pilgrimage exhibition with an international vocation tries to value again “cities tremendously rich in heritage, which are sometimes far from the main tourist circuits”.
In six rooms, the exhibition presents a historical, archaeological and artistic tour of the figure of Jesus that culminates with the hyper-realistic body of the man in the Shroud stripped of any artistic movement, as never before shown.
The exhibition in Salamanca, which remained in the Cathedral from October 13 to March 15, closed its doors with a total of 70,000 visitors, reports Europa Press.
Initially it was scheduled to be there, as the premiere of its roaming, until December 31, 2022, but in the end the organizers extended it due to “the excellent reception” in the seo.
The CEO of ArtiSplendore, the company that organizes the exhibition, Francisco Mora, has highlighted the number of attendees in the “almost six months of its journey” and has later influenced the “depth it has had” during this time in Salamanca.
“It is not the end, it is the beginning of this story, which has its center in this city, Salamanca,” said the exhibition’s curator, Álvaro Blanco, for whom “it has been surprising” the “outsiders” who has approached to see the proposal that now houses the cathedral of Guadix.
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