Tino Sehgal: El Greco
Centro Bot铆n will present an exhibition of Tino Sehgal practice in dialogue with El Greco鈥檚 seminal painting Adoration of the Shepherds (1577-1579), originally realized for the Capilla de Santo Domingo del Antiguo, Toledo.
Sehgal鈥檚 works, which he calls 鈥渃onstructed situations鈥� are always enacted by people rather than consisting of material objects. In this way, the artist radically defies the traditional context of museum and gallery environments as visitors are invited to be a part of the artwork instead of being passive spectators. The resulting situations are immaterial and fleeting, what truly matters is the viewer鈥檚 experience created by the artist.
At the heart of El Greco/Tino Sehgal is the questioning of art鈥檚 relevance to society in terms of spiritual and religious values up until today. How does the divine ray of light in El Greco鈥檚 painting shape Sehgal鈥檚 development of a work that is not an object but a 鈥渟ituation鈥�? How are El Greco鈥檚 depicted mannerisms transformed by a contemporary work of art? Does it matter how old a work of art is in order to be contemporary at any given time, even in the future?
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Centro Bot铆n will present an exhibition of Tino Sehgal practice in dialogue with El Greco鈥檚 seminal painting Adoration of the Shepherds (1577-1579), originally realized for the Capilla de Santo Domingo del Antiguo, Toledo.
Sehgal鈥檚 works, which he calls 鈥渃onstructed situations鈥� are always enacted by people rather than consisting of material objects. In this way, the artist radically defies the traditional context of museum and gallery environments as visitors are invited to be a part of the artwork instead of being passive spectators. The resulting situations are immaterial and fleeting, what truly matters is the viewer鈥檚 experience created by the artist.
At the heart of El Greco/Tino Sehgal is the questioning of art鈥檚 relevance to society in terms of spiritual and religious values up until today. How does the divine ray of light in El Greco鈥檚 painting shape Sehgal鈥檚 development of a work that is not an object but a 鈥渟ituation鈥�? How are El Greco鈥檚 depicted mannerisms transformed by a contemporary work of art? Does it matter how old a work of art is in order to be contemporary at any given time, even in the future?
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