From 1 August until its closing date, Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition will be open until 10pm from Mondays to Saturdays and until 9pm on Sundays and public holidays.Friday, July 8, 2016
These opening times also apply to the video installation Infinite Garden, specially created for Room C of the Museum and based on Bosch’s masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights.
These new, longer opening hours for visiting the exhibition that marks the 5th centenary of the artist’s death and which benefits from the sole sponsorship of Fundación BBVA, represent a further extension to the special opening hours initially introduced (Fridays to Sundays) and have been implemented in response to the exceptional interest generated by the exhibition, which has already been seen by more than 185,000 visitors.
There is also enormous interest in the documentary Bosch. The Garden of Dreams, which has so far been seen by 11,000 spectators, and more showings will now be programmed at the cinemas in Spain where it is currently running.
Starting on 1 August, visitors wishing to see Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition will be able to take advantage of longer opening times until the end of the exhibition: Mondays to Saturdays, 10am to 10pm, and Sundays and public holidays, 10am to 9pm, with timed entry slots every 15 minutes until 9.15pm and 8.15pm respectively.
With these longer opening hours, for which tickets are now on sale, the Museo del Prado has responded to the expected increase in visitor numbers during the summer holiday period. In order to ensure easy entry to Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, advance ticket purchase is recommended using the system specially devised for this event, with pre-selection of the day and time of the visit. Tickets can be purchased using this system on: www.museodelprado.es
The same opening times apply to the video installation Infinite Garden, to be seen in Room C of the Jerónimos Building. This new creation allows visitors to move around The Garden of Earthly Delights in a totally immersive and sensory experience.
Finally, due to the success of Bosch. Garden of Dreams, the most widely seen Spanish documentary in recent years, which is also distributed abroad (USA, South America and Europe), additional showings will be programmed this summer at the cinemas in Spain where it is currently running. Consult showings at: http://elboscoeljardindelossueos.es/
Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition
The Museo del Prado and Fundación BBVA are marking the 5th centenary of the death of Jheronimus Bosch with the first monographic exhibition to be devoted to the artist in Spain and the most complete and significant in terms of quality to be organised to date. In addition to works from the collection of the Prado, which has the largest and finest holdings of Bosch in the world, including The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Haywain and The Adorationof the Magi triptychs, for the first time the exhibition has brought together loans such as The Saint Anthony Triptych from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon, Christ carrying the Cross from Patrimonio Nacional, The Crowning with Thorns from the National Gallery in London, and the drawing of the Tree-Man from the Albertina in Vienna, the latter a true masterpiece by the artist.
With an installation that is as surprising and exceptional as the exhibition itself, the Museum is presenting more than 50 works, including 21 original paintings and 8 original drawings by Bosch, which represent more than 75% of his surviving oeuvre. Also on display are prints, reliefs, miniatures and paintings by other artists, which help to suggest the context in which Bosch produced his works.
Infinite Garden. Video installation
Based on The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch’s unique and iconic triptych, until 2 October the Museo del Prado, with the sole sponsorship of Fundación BBVA, will be presenting an ambitious video installation specially created for Room C of the Museum by artist Álvaro Perdices and filmmaker Andrés Sanz. This work fragments the multiple pictorial worlds of the painting in order to offer a totally immersive and sensory experience wrapped in a soundscape composed by musicians Santiago Rapallo and Javier Adán.
Infinite Garden consists of a multi-projection of a video and audio work using 18 video channels and 16 soundtracks. Lasting approximately 75 minutes, the installation projects images from The Garden of Earthly Delights, which have been reinterpreted and re-elaborated by Alvaro Perdices and Andrés Sanz in order to create a new work.
Bosch. The Garden of Dreams. Documentary
Bosch. The Garden of Dreams is based on Professor Reindert Falkenburg’s thesis that Bosch’s masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, was conceived as a conversation piece for the court at Nassau. This conversation, which began 500 years ago, is brought up to date in the documentary with participants that now include Professor Falkenburg himself in the company of artists, writers, philosophers, musicians and art historians, among them Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Cees Nooteboom, Nélida Piñon, Laura Restrepo, Ludovico Einaudi, William Christie, Silvia Perez Cruz, Renée Fleming, Michel Onfray, Miquel Barceló, Cai Guo-Qiang, Isabel Muñoz and Albert Boadella.
José Luis López Linares, the film’s director, encourages spectators to take part in this fascinating conversation, armed with the ideas and observations offered by the above-mentioned participants. The documentary makes use of exquisite images filmed in high definition, functioning as a zoom that transports us to the big screen.
The film has a carefully selected soundtrack of works and performances by leading musicians which seem to have been specially written for Bosch. Elvis Costello provides the music for the Cluny tapestries while Lana del Rey’s Gods and Monsters is an unexpected musical clip that connects surprisingly well with details from the painting. We also hear Ludovico Einaudi’s tranquil compositions, together with Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds and Arvo Pärt’s moving Vater unser.
