A giant version of the famous Rubik’s cube that welcomes visitors in the lobby of the Palace of the Jewelry, Madrid. On each face you can see an image attributed or attributable to Leonardo da Vinci or his environment. It is the beginning of the controversial exhibition that, on the basis of reproductions, a lot of virtual reality and a supposed portrait of the original (the Tavola Lucana) extends through the building and extends to the National Library, where they exhibit two jewelry undisputed genius of the florentine: the Codices Madrid I and Madrid II, accompanied by recreations of some of the contraptions invented by the prolific painter of The mona lisa.
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it’s All part of the double shows Leonardo da Vinci. The faces of genius, that under the umbrella of the NBS organizes the company’s Initiatives and Exhibitions. The presenter of the tv game show Pasapalabra, Christian Gálvez, is the curator of the part that is displayed in the Palace of the Jewelry and the pieces that surround the codices from the lobby of the biblioteca nacional. The responsible of the small sample size of the Library is the university professor Elisa Ruiz. The exhibition can be seen from this Thursday until may 19, for 14,50 euros the entrance. Free in BNE.
In an environment unusual compared to what is usually the presentation of major exhibitions, minutes before the presentation Galvez gave instructions non-stop at the team of Mediaset, a company in which he works and collaborates with the sample. Came in and out of the different sections that recreate what he believes are the great moments in the life of Leonardo, “an artist, dyslexic, left-handed and bipolar that failed in Rome and Florence, and that he died as a loser. You have to check a lot of labels and I’m willing to do it,” said the commissioner, contrary to authors such as Walter Isaacson, who in his monumental biography speaks of a recognition that early florentine artist.
But before that Galvez is explayara, intervened in the presentation the director of The Home of the Jewels, Christopher Sanchez. This stated that its participation was limited to renting the space to the organiser. Ana Santos, director of the National Library, added that he had not been able to escape to the proposal of Galvez to participate in the 500th anniversary of Leonardo with the exhibition of the Codices, “which are like The maids of honour). Asked about the scientific contributions of the initiative, acknowledged that he had not power to still see the content of what was inaugurated formally. “I think it is good that the institutions are to join together for projects of Betlike this caliber and I understand that this part is intended to arouse the curiosity of the people to a character like Leonardo, which is good. In our headquarters, Elisa Ruiz has contextualised the codices with true jewels of the Library. He is accompanied by the steps 33 reproductions of objects financed by Christian Galvez,” explained the director.
The commissioner began by acknowledging that risk receiving “many clubs or cheering, but that their goal is to publicize a “Leonardo in jeans, to which people can access and who can fall in love with. More than the artist, I am interested in the man of truth, who was behind the works known by all.”
One of the works in the exhibition ‘Leonardo da Vinci. The Faces of Genius’ VICTOR SAINZ
The exhibition closes with a piece that, in the words of Gálvez, is a self-portrait of Leonardo in a 99.9%. It is the painting known as the Tavola Lucana, discovered by the historian Nicola Barbatelli in 2009 and that there are experts, including the scientific committee endorsed the exhibition, which ensure that it represents the florentine master. Barbatelli says that the work is not for sale, because it would impede the Italian Government and that he does not feel qualified to point a figure on its value in the market. “But think of Salvator Mundi (awarded for $ 450 million, € 380 million, to a saudi prince) and we will have a rough idea”, topped the discoverer and also owner of the portrait.
On the cost of the exhibition, Gálvez responded that there is a confidentiality agreement that you can’t talk about money, even though it announced that its fees as a commissioner will go to the Spanish Federation of Rare Diseases (FEDER). The ticket revenues, books such as The mona lisa decoded (Aguilar) and other events related to the project, will be to the organiser.
In the Library, Elisa Ruiz read less risky of Leonardo’s life and recalls his life in a few panels that speak of a recognition early in his Florence of origin, in Milan, or Venice. On the manuscripts, originals, will be displayed in days as determined by the conservation team, remember that as much for their images as for their explanatory texts are an indispensable source to understand the functioning of a mind of prodigious and to be closer to the genius of the Renaissance.
