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“RESURRECTIO”
First ideas for the fresco mural paintings of Josep Minguell in Santa Maria del Alba de Tàrrega
Fruit of the collaboration with the Parróquia de Tàrrega has born "Resurrectio", a set of fresco murals to realize at the church of Santa María de l’Alba, in Tàrrega
With these murals a new artistic contribution is claimed to the splendid architecture of the temple, adding to the works realized by artists of other epochs, as, for example, the wall paintings of Jaume Minguell and Miret, realized during the decade of the sixties.
The accomplishment of the murals is foreseen for the first semester of 2005, and it will be carried out by the procedure of the fresco painting. Approximately 2.000 quilos of oily lime mortar will be used, using always mineral pigments of the highest quality and continuing this pictorial thousand-year-old tradition.
The initial works of the project appear in an exhibition in l'Urgell's Regional museum, explaining every step of the pictorial creation, in unique exhibition, because these studies will be saled to finance the project.
A PROJECT OF BIG DIMENSIONS
The temple of Santa Maria de l’Alba is a magnificent construction of the Carmelite Fra Josep de la Concepció, reached in the year 1696 in the same place of the previous Romanesque temple that sank in 1672.
The architectural style follows the elegant lines of the classical baroque, based on a new social order that demands a functional planning of the architecture. The construction, therefore, reminds a classic temple, tending to an almost Roman simplicity, nude of the ornaments that were characterizing the baroque and the rococo.
The murals will occupe the left wall of the cruise and his arch. Nowadays, the wall has neither any painting nor decoration, with the exception of a sanefa that defines the arch and the small arch of the roof.
A great surface of 180 m2, with a total height of 18 meters.
THE THEME OF THE MURALS: THE RESURRECTION
A part of the first drawings correspond to the thematic study and to a symbolic representation of all the elements that shape the murals.
The vertical wall will treat the topic of the Resurrection, with a contemporary interpretation of the topic associating diverse levels of symbolism. Some of the elements represented in the scene are: the way of light that comes out towards a spring landscape where the nature is reborn; the olive tree, from where the symbol of the peace appears and reminds Christ's Passion; the myrrh used for the dead and to remember the predestination indicated in Christ's birth; the slab of the sepulcher, as sign of liberation; the vigilant soldiers....
The arch completes the vertical mural with an interpretation of two Biblical myths associated with the death and the resurrection: Jonas and the marine monster, considered premonition and symbol of three days that Jesus would be dead and his later Resurrection; and the horses of fire of Elias, prophet of the Mount Carmel, led to the sky in a car of fire, which is considered to be a prefiguration of Christ's Ascension.
The second phase of the preparatory works to find the compositive structure that allows to adapt these elements to the architectural space, will be made across studies of diverse formats and three-dimensional models that will serve to define the final project, a guideline to continue at the moment of realizing the paintings.
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