The resurrection illustrated
The painter Marcel Rubio Juliana represents the return of the spirit of life through reincarnation.
The Espai 13 of the Joan Miró Foundation is presenting the emerging art cycle Dive and Immersion curated by Pere Llobera. It includes proposals by Victor Jaenada (Isabel), Marcel Rubio Juliana (La resurrecció), Marria Pratts (1 possessió Drift) and Martín Vitaliti (Silly Simphony), which reflect on life, death and the circularity inherent in both.
In The resurrection, Marcel Rubio Juliana (Barcelona, 1991) proposes a journey through all the stages of the body's transformation after death, up to the moment when the soul comes in contact with the spirit and returns to earth to become flesh again.
The resurrection belief encompasses a broad field of sacred tradition that is used to reference the action of being reborn and is almost unrepresentable in nature. For this reason, the artist seeks where it manifests, where it makes itself visible and finds a parallel in the principles of alchemy about the transmutation of spirit into matter and matter into spirit.
In the past, science and art had a common interest and were synonymous with the same research until science focused on the exploration of the material universe, and art devoted itself to the aesthetic — or solipsistic — exploration of forms.
Marcel Rubio Juliana illustrates the process of resurrection through oil painting and iconography resulting from the natural observation of human and animal models with the aim of finding a voice within existence.
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