SO CLOSE, SO FAR. GUADALUPE OF MEXICO IN SPAIN
SO CLOSE, SO FAR. GUADALUPE OF MEXICO IN SPAIN
Museography | Temporary Exhibition, 2025 | Museo Nacional del Prado | Client: MP
Published in ABC Culture | Arteinformado
Photographs by © Museo Nacional del Prado
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The birth of an idea. Guadeloupe in the Prado
“Every exhibition is accompanied by a museographic proposal, the result of a dialogue between the curator’s knowledge and the creativity of design, which envelops and shapes the discourse. In the case of this exhibition, this encounter has been expressed through the architecture, inspired by the Madrid parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Built in the 1960s, it was a joint project of architects Enrique de la Mora and José Ramón Azpiazu and engineers José Antonio Torroja and Félix Candela. The latter, a Spanish-Mexican, brought to the project, from Mexico and in collaboration with Enrique de la Mora, his experiments with hyperbolic paraboloid surfaces. These parabolas evoked the Virgin’s mantle of golden stars, a symbol that Candela materialized through the use of faceted concrete. This architectural reference is now transferred to the exhibition space, in the form of radial structures that house the different thematic blocks. In this way, the visitor is not only visiting an exhibition about the universe of Guadalupe, but also a symbolic and enveloping interpretation of it” (Text about the museographic design extracted from the exhibition).
