WITH NEWCOMER’S EYES:
Coming recently to Aachen and the Dekanat from my country, many things, specially ancient ones, stroke my eye. Namely, the ever present mention to the figure of Carlomagno. Also the unique native art, contemporary or not to his time, the likes of which are only known at Spain at much later times than those of his.
As a sculptor I started looking at the images inside churches and this project originated when I couldn’t help but wonder how’d they have looked like at that time.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE:
These works of art were thought for displaying at the public arena, before the `grand ́ public.
Unlike those of a museum they aren’t comparably lit up and they remain at a scenery, usually at a high up viewpoint, they were devised for. They bear witness of themes and models transmitted locally, at the sculptors’ workshops, from masters to apprentices throughout the centuries, remaining constant and conforming an uninterrupted tradition throughout millennia.
The quality of the work I undertake at the churches and present at this exhibition is that of reporting what I there undisturbed ’in situ’ find.
TURNING A BLIND EYE:
There’s a disadvantage for sculpture in an era of endless reproducibility.
Photography seems not to fully portray the actual magnitude of a work of sculpture. In that regard, when reproducing sculpture on paper, there seems to be a lack of immediacy when comparing it to a reproduction of a painting.
Visiting the different areas of the Dekanat I heard of reports on how war and abuse through past and not so past times affected these sculptures, how they were stored away during W.W.II to protect them from allied bombings. Thus I came to realize there were not always optimal circumstances as today’s for these artworks.

Cente Crespo talk at the Ateneo of Madrid - 14.03.16

Series of lectures, starting “Provocation (challengers), the beginning of the Avant-garde”, followed by “Art as an excuse against bourgeois morals” and ending with “Provocation aims and Avant-garde´s end” given at Ateneo de Madrid in Spain between February and April 2015. Object development and influence in art after firstly defined as readymade on the early nineteen hundreds by french artist Marcel Duchamp (Blainville-Crevon 1887- Neuilly sur Seine 1968).