Isabel Guerra reinterprets Goya’s ‘The Snowfall’JOSEMA MOLINA
When Isabel Guerra visited the Prado Museum in his childhood, the same thing always happened to him when he reached the cartoons of Goya“the themes they dealt with didn’t captivate me much but when I got to ‘La nevada’ I was struck by its seriousness and depth. “I was fascinated by how he addressed people’s suffering from the cold.” Many years later, this Friday, The painter has presented a very special painting to society, ‘Encounter with the master on the path of history and its storms’, which is a reinterpretation of the piece by Francisco de Goya.
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He has done it in Goya Museumwithin your exhibition ‘The uncreated light’, accompanied by the general director of the Ibercaja Foundation, José Luis Rodrigo; the director of the Goya Museum, May Forcen; and the curator of the exhibition, Magdalena Lasala.
Isabel Guerra confirms the authorship of her painting live.
In her piece, Isabel Guerra (considered the painter of light for many) has placed in the center of the image a 21st century shepherd with his flock (and his small dog in a clear nod to Goya) who encounters a group of “humble men working in the fields who fight the cold.” All under heavy snow. In that sense, Isabel Guerra wanted to reflect out loud: “What is harder, working in the countryside, or in these cities where we are all crowded together in the subway? “We all go through the storm that is life in different ways.”
Tapestries about the seasons
‘The Snowfall’ is part of a series dedicated to the seasons whose tapestries were placed in the dining room of the prince who would later become Charles IV: “It has a great contrast with the rest of the seasonal paintings. This is not decorative, it is a profound painting,” insisted Isabel Guerra, who wanted to focus on the characters in the piece she painted: “The faces, they tell me, are characters from Goya. authentic but they are not a copy, they are my impression since I have not painted with the painting in front of me but with the memories I had of it.”
‘The Snowfall’, by Goya, a painting that Isabel Guerra has reinterpreted.
‘Encounter with the master on the path of history and its storms’ is an acrylic painting measuring 1.28 meters high x 2 meters wide and is a “shocking work,” said Magdalena Lasala moments before it was unpacked among a large expectation. “Isabel Guerra has achieved a work that culminates her artistic career, transmitting very Goyesque sensations.”
“You have to leave your soul and your life”
“In art you don’t have to make throwaway works, you have to give your soul and life to make the good art that we all hope for. We are in a time in which there is a great risk of losing everything that man has achieved. The world has to wake up to the truth and doing good to get through this storm,” the painter concluded.
The exhibition ‘Uncreated Light’, which can be enjoyed until May 19, represents a change of direction in the work of Isabel Guerra and in her acclaimed hyperrealist style (although she insists that she does “only naturalistic painting”). In fact, the visitor might well think that he is not looking at paintings by the Cistercian nun.. His “pictorial voice” has been so renewed in these 36 works that some of them even tend towards abstraction.
