Let’s visit the exhibition Sant Pere de Rodes and the Master of Cabestany at MNAC | Activity
We accompany Manuel Antonio Castiñeiras González, curator of the exhibition, on a visit to discover the most brilliant, internationally-renowned sculptor of the Catalan Romanesque period.
The Master of Cabestany, considered by some an authentic Picasso of the 12th century, is the star of this exhibition, centering on his masterpiece: the lost marble portal of Sant Pere de Rodes, near El Port de la Selva, created between 1160 and 1170. The exhibition also looks at the career of this artist, linked to regions including Tuscany, the south of France, Catalonia and Navarre, and considers the many questions that still surround the original sources and intentions of his artwork.
The exhibition was made possible by the appearance of a set of pieces from this portal, five of which have been added to the MNAC collection: a relief, two male heads, a fragment of a figure’s clothing and the inscription INRI from a cross. The exhibition uses these items to argue for the originality and modernity of the Master of Cabestany within the European Romanesque contextat the same time highlighting the artistic significance of the Benedictine abbey of Sant Pere de Rodes and the long, complex history of its heritage, from the Middle Ages to the present day. In an outstanding setting, where nature and art form an inseparable whole, the monastery has become one of the great contemporary legends of the history of Romanesque art.
MACBA Thirty
We celebrate Year Thirty of an infinite MACBA that projects the future as a space for revision and possibility: of taking up what was left unfinished, updating what needs it and projecting anew everything that can still be transformed.
