Infinite Garden
Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid 7/4/2016 - 10/2/2016
The Museo del Prado is presenting Infinite Garden, a specially created installation made possible through the sole sponsorship of Fundación BBVA. Taking its starting point from Bosch’s masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights, it has been specifically designed for Room C of the Museum.
Infinite Garden comprises a multi-projection on 18 video channels of a video and audio work lasting 75 minutes and accompanied by 16 soundtracks. The installation’s creators have reinterpreted and reconstructed images from The Garden of Earthly Delights in order to offer a completely new work.
This new video installation by Álvaro Perdices and filmmaker Andrés Sanz includes an original soundtrack composed for it by musicians Santiago Rapallo and Javier Adán.
Infinite Garden has been conceived to create a totally immersive atmosphere which allows spectators to enter Bosch’s famous triptych through a perceptual space, moving around the Earthly Paradise, the Garden of Earthly Delights and Hell in the company of numerous figures, creatures and bodies.
Infinite Garden dissects, breaks up and reassembles details from the painting’s multiple pictorial worlds, generating a totally sensory space that is in turn wrapped in a soundtrack with three-dimensional elements. The fragmented images, changes of scale and surprising micro-narratives take on a new dimension, producing the same type of amazement that Bosch’s work has always aroused.
These fragmented details together create a journey through the world of “significant detail” which both fascinates and frustrates due to our inability to grasp in its entirety a spatial arrangement that dissolves the object in the experience.
The creators: Álvaro Perdices / Andrés Sanz
The soundtrack: Javier Adán / Santiago Rapallo
Length: 75 minutes