Through the combination of painting, sculpture and installation, the artist Mario Pasqualotto (Barcelona, 1953) conceives his work as an exploration of metamorphosis, the passage of time, fragility and death as a condition of existence.
Impressed by Giotto’s painting of the Scrovegni Chapel, the artist selects three of the essential elements used in the famous fresco by the painter from Florence, and brings them into the realm of the contemporary: the ultramarine blue made with lapis lazuli, the mandorla that surrounds the Christ Pantocrator – which symbolizes the encounter between the earthly and divine dimensions –, and the golden eight-pointed stars, representative of what is fragile yet eternal in a world in constant transformation.
Thus, Pasqualotto manages to create a sacred atmosphere that is deeply poetic and full of meaning. The fugacity of time and the eternity of what transcends us become the protagonists of the exhibition, one which also questions traditional religious conventions. The artist, through his artistic language loaded with references and symbols, evokes the sacred without abandoning the most essential questions about the mystery that is human existence.
Exhibition curated by Natàlia Chocarro, art adviser to the presidency at Fundació Vila Casas, within the “Vanishing Points” programme, an initiative based on artists from the permanent collection in order to create new exhibition proposals held throughout our country and internationally.
Capella de Sant Joan, Vilafranca del Penedès
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