Museo del Prado leads the comic to “Españoleto” – The Universal

The comic continues to open step in the world of culture. As before, in 2015, Museo del Prado launched a publication issued by the Dutch graphic Marcel Ruijters, on the occasion of the 500 anniversary of the death of “El Bosco”. And public and private Spanish so again.

The museum edited The forgiveness and the fury, a publication in comic book format that deals with the work of José de Ribera, “The Españoleto”, in the framework of the first monographic exhibition of the Spanish painter.

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Antonio Altarriba and Keko, author of I, assassin, develop a plot, a mystery that has the Furies of ribera as a base of argument, informed the Museum of the Prado in a statement.
Antonio Altarriba is a professor of French literature at the University of the Basque Country. He is interested in the visual aspects of the writing and the narrative possibilities of the image, as well as erotic literature.
José Antonio Godoy Cazorla, better known as Keko, is a cartoonist who began working in the 80′s in the journal Madriz. He has collaborated as an illustrator in the supplements of The Nation, The World and ABC.

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“The Metamorphosis”, by Franz Kafa, and “Thus spoke Zarathustra”, Friedrich Nietzsche, they have been adapted to these formats.

The work and the exposure posed by a rapprochement to the work of the author valencia, through the paintings that represent the aesthetics of their pain.
The paintings “Titius” and “Ixion” of The Españoleto work as a starting point for authors to raise an intrigue that happens between the light and the darkness, the forgiveness and the anger.

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Ribera was commissioned, in 1632, of painting the Furies, a collection of paintings which depicts the great martyrs of classical mythology. In forgiveness and the fury, “Sisyphus” and “Tantalus” have disappeared, so that a professor of the University of Salamanca, Osvaldo González Sanmartín, begins the search for a solution to the mystery, even to repair the loss.

however, that same search will come up with the obsession for the work of Ribera, which in its way will be identified with the saints subject in the paintings of Ribera.

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