{"id":46152,"date":"2010-04-28T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T09:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/archivos\/46152"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T09:39:28","slug":"editorial-el-vaticano-y-el-arte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/editorial-el-vaticano-y-el-arte\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: El Vaticano y el arte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Autor:<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 Alberto L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revista:<\/strong> L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 259-260<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>El arte occidental, que, desde la aparici&oacute;n del cristianismo y hasta principios del siglo XIX, hab&iacute;a mantenido una estrecha relaci&oacute;n con la Iglesia, ha avanzado desde hace m&aacute;s de siglo y medio en un camino de secularizaci&oacute;n extrema. Paralelamente, la iconograf&iacute;a religiosa se ha ido reduciendo a una pr&aacute;ctica marginal y normalmente mediocre.<\/p>\n<p>Hace casi medio siglo Pablo vi asumi&oacute; el compromiso de restablecer la amistad entre la Iglesia y los artistas. \u00abA todos vosotros la Iglesia del Concilio os dice con nuestra voz: &iexcl;si sois amigos del verdadero arte, sois nuestros amigos!\u00bb, les comunic&oacute; en la clausura del Concilio Vaticano ii, se&ntilde;alando su papel como custodios de la \u00abbelleza del mundo\u00bb, la belleza que el mundo necesita para no lanzarse a la desesperaci&oacute;n&#8230; En el a&ntilde;o 2000, Juan Pablo ii dirigi&oacute; una \u00abCarta a los artistas\u00bb, tambi&eacute;n centrada en la \u00abepifan&iacute;a de la belleza\u00bb. Ajena a los estilos, movimientos y medios del arte actual, la Iglesia segu&iacute;a reclamando una belleza que en sus templos se ha traducido en burdos productos incapaces de reproducir la grandeza del arte religioso de anta&ntilde;o, convirti&eacute;ndose en una especie de grotesco arte religioso folcl&oacute;rico, pre&ntilde;ado de vulgaridad, del que son ejemplos destacables las horribles pinturas instaladas en la Catedral de la Almudena de Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Ahora la Iglesia parece querer sacudirse ese rancio conservadurismo. As&iacute;, seg&uacute;n el responsable del Consejo Pontificio de la Cultura, Monse&ntilde;or Gianfranco Ravasi -cuyas funciones en el Vaticano son las equivalentes a las de un Ministro de Cultura-, esa instituci&oacute;n pretende estimular un arte actual apropiado para ornar las numerosas iglesias modernas, algunas de ellas dise&ntilde;adas por arquitectos como Renzo Piano o Richard Meier, evitando esquemas iconogr&aacute;ficos caducos, adscritos a lo peor de la est&eacute;tica del sentimiento. Paralelamente, la Iglesia desea inspirar en los artistas un arte \u00abtrascendente\u00bb, que pueda medirse con aquella creaci&oacute;n contempor&aacute;nea carente de mensaje o \u00abblasfema\u00bb. En una entrevista concedida al diario Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a finales de 1998, Ravasi adelantaba la intenci&oacute;n del Vaticano de participar con un pabell&oacute;n propio en la Bienal de Venecia de 2011, a pesar de ser consciente de que cerca podr&iacute;a exhibirse una Madonna llorando esperma o una &Uacute;ltima Cena con j&oacute;venes masturb&aacute;ndose, como se pudo ver en Bolonia o en Viena ese mismo a&ntilde;o. En aquella misma entrevista, se interrogaba Ravasi sobre los nuevos lenguajes, sobre la b&uacute;squeda de lo no est&eacute;tico en el arte, y conclu&iacute;a que quiz&aacute;s la Iglesia hab&iacute;a perdido el contacto con la creatividad. Como ejemplo, se refer&iacute;a a una Crucifixi&oacute;n de Joseph Beuys, que, seg&uacute;n opinaba, debi&oacute; haber adquirido la Iglesia en los a&ntilde;os sesenta, por tratarse de una obra que pertenec&iacute;a m&aacute;s a un lugar sagrado que a un museo.<\/p>\n<p>Como parte de esta nueva estrategia eclesi&aacute;stica, se organiz&oacute; un encuentro entre el papa Benedicto XVI y doscientos artistas de distintas disciplinas, incluida la pl&aacute;stica, en noviembre del a&ntilde;o pasado. En ese encuentro, que tuvo lugar en la Capilla Sixtina y al que asistieron creadores como Jannis Kounellis, Anish Kapoor y Bill Viola, el Papa volvi&oacute; a referirse a la Belleza como necesaria respuesta a algunas formas del arte contempor&aacute;neo que considera obscenas. Monse&ntilde;or Ravasi fue el organizador del encuentro. Ante este pasmoso giro, solo nos cabe preguntarnos: &iquest;llegaremos a ver pronto a alg&uacute;n cardenal pase&aacute;ndose por arco?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Vatican and art<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Western art has been advancing towards extreme secularisation for over a century, despite the strong relationship it boasted with the Church from the emergence of Christianity until the early 19th century. Simultaneously, religious iconography has been reduced to a marginal, quite mediocre, practice.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half a century ago, Paul vi embraced the commitment of re-establishing the ties between artists and the Church. \u00abTo all of you, the Church of the Council declares to you through our voice: if you are friends of genuine art, you are our friends!,\u00bb he commented on closing the Second Vatican Council, underlining their role as the custodians of the \u00abbeauty of the world,\u00bb the beauty that the world needs to not sink into desperation&#8230; In the year 2000,&nbsp; John Paul ii penned a \u00abLetter to the Artists,\u00bb also based on the \u00abepiphany of beauty.\u00bb Ignoring the styles, movements and resources of contemporary art, the Church continued to request beauty which, in its temples, has been translated into crude products, unable to reproduce the grandiosity of the religious art of the past. It has become a sort of grotesque folkloric religious art, pregnant with vulgarity, with examples such as the dire paintings on show in the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Church now seems eager to shake off that stale conservatism. Thus, the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi -whose functions in the Vatican equal those of a Minister of Culture-, aims to use the institution to stimulate a contemporary art that is deemed suitable to decorate the numerous modern churches, some designed by architects such as Renzo Piano or Richard Meier, avoiding dated iconographies that are ascribed to the worst examples of the aesthetics of emotions. In parallel, the Church aims to inspire artists to create a \u00abtranscendent\u00bb art, an art that can level with contemporary creations that are devoid of a message or are openly \u00abblasphemous.\u00bb In an interview with the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in late 1998, Ravasi previewed the Vatican&#8217;s intention to showcase a pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, despite being aware of that fact that it could be in the vicinity of a Madonna crying sperm or a Last Supper featuring youths masturbating, as occurred in Bologna or Vienna that same year. In that interview, Ravasi was also asked about new languages, about the pursuit for non-aesthetic elements in art, and concluded that perhaps the Church had lost contact with creativity. It illustrated the point by mentioning Joseph Beuys&#8217; Crucifixion, which, he said, should have been purchased by the Church in the Sixties, being a work more suited to a holy place than to a museum.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the new ecclesiastic strategy, a meeting was organised between Pope Benedict xvi and two hundred artists from different disciplines, including plastic arts, last November. During the event, staged in the Sistine Chapel with creators such as Jannis Kounellis, Anish Kapoor and Bill Viola, the Pope once again referred to Beauty as the necessary answer to some forms of contemporary art which he considers obscene. Archbishop Ravasi organised the event. Given this shocking swing, one can only wonder:&nbsp; Will we be seeing a cardinal walking around arco in the near future?<\/p>\n<p>Translation: Laura F. 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