Museo del Prado, ''Rubens' atelier''

Madrid

The Museo Nacional del Prado is installing next to the Central Gallery a staging of the workshop of one of the most prolific and successful painters of the Modern Age, Peter Paul Rubens, and in order to introduce the viewer in that space ...

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... uses a red drape, an element frequently present in his paintings, that dominates the entrance to the exhibition hall (room 16 B of the Villanueva building).The exposition displays more than 30 works by the Flemish master and his workshop, of which it has been recreated ...

... not only the everyday life of his time, but even the oils and pigments of the time are made present in a real way.Following the idea of the curator of the exhibition, Alejandro Vergara ...

... Peroni's management in Spain is commissioned to design and manufacture a draped curtain, which physically quotes some of the fabrics painted by Rubens.Angelica Guaglianone is chosen as a master in the design and processing of materials for scenography ...

... and she creates a three-dimensional sign that symbolizes the entrance to the exhibition, attracting the attention of the visitor.Under the supervision of Helena Bernardo, Coordinator of the exhibition, and Lucía Villarreal, Head of the Exhibition Area, both from the Museo del Prado ...

... Angelica materializes the idea with HGL - Gilda satin fabric, to which she gives shape and volumetry citing those decorative fabrics that Rubens and his workshop painted on several occasions in his paintings.The result speaks for itself.

A drape symbolically raised on the door of the room to allow access, as if it were a curtain protecting a bygone era, introduces the spectators to the space in which, together with the paintings that make up the exhibition on Peter Paul Rubens, his atelier has been scenographically reconstructed with philologically chosen objects: brushes, palettes, fabrics, boards, easels.
All impregnated with the smell of turpentine, one of the most present in ancient ateliers.

Ideation

Alejandro Vergara

Supervision

Helena Bernardo
Lucia Villarreal

Tailoring of the drape

Angélica Guaglianone

Location

Museo del Prado

Period

15/10/2024 - 16/02/2025

Materials used in this production

HGL - Gilda

Silks and satins

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