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Triptych The Great Moat

Josep M. Rosselló2009 - 2009

Museu d'Art Modern de Tarragona

Museu d'Art Modern de Tarragona
TARRAGONA, Spain

End of the road. The large grave. Graves, graves, graves of unknown people, graves without a name or a date. not even a shroud, not even a flower, not even a candle. far away somebody says a prayer or sings a song for the dead among the war and the misery. Dead, dead, dead from that war or another one, from theirs or ours, from all the wars in history. numbered graves which we now timidly begin to disinter so that, after so many years, we can finally provide a decent burial for the unnamed heroes, often forgotten, who defended the ideals which exploded in their breast like a bunch of red roses in spring. Having recovered the memory, a crowd slowly and carefully walks with large bouquets of flowers towards the destroyed mount olympus of the consumer society; there are others who toss flowers into the sea or deposit them in strategic places, on roadside verges, on river banks, on ravines or on mountains. a murmur, a canticle has replaced the human noise around, where the earth is the shroud of the forgotten. and in the garden of delights the dead, lined up as a result of intuition, walk in a circle, awaiting the definitive utopian light. Text by J. M. Rosselló. Josep M. Rosselló i Virgili (1950). He was born in Tarragona in 1950. He studied at the Tarragona School of Art, at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Art and at the Massana School in Barcelona, where he studied engraving.

Details

  • Title: Triptych The Great Moat
  • Creator Lifespan: 1950
  • Creator Nationality: spanish
  • Creator Gender: male
  • Creator Birth Place: Tarragona
  • Date: 2009 - 2009
  • painter: Josep M. Rosselló
  • Physical Dimensions: w308 x h197 cm
  • Type: Oil on canvas and wood

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