Project in progress whose starting point is an anthropomorphic plaster sculpture by Manuel Delgado Villegas, el Arropiero (1943-1998), between the years 1970 and 1980 during his confinement in the Madrid Prison Psychiatric Center Prison Psychiatric Carabanchel. Based on this work, a three-dimensional representation of a human head, Black Castle proposes a visual and sonorous reflection on the place of madness and its complex and difficult habitability. In a concentric sense, paying special attention to the organ of insanity and the suffering of its symptoms, and in a perimetral or adjacent sense, taking into account exogenous factors such as the place where the mentally ill people live, the asylum, whether penitentiary or civil, And the excellent curative and / or palliative therapies that throughout history reason has devised to expel morbid thoughts from their territory.
The results were shown in the individual exhibition Castillo negro in the Espacio Olvera gallery in Seville. January, February and March 2019. www.espacioolvera.com
This works has been produced with the support of the grant to Creation program 2017 of the City Council of Madrid.
Art critic article: «Dar forma a la mente criminal» by Ivan de la Torre Americhi. ABC Cultural. 2 February 2019.
