SiE7E (SEVEN) Vernisagge
ÁNGELES PENCHE ART GALLERY
11 Monte Esquinza Street, Madrid
From 1 to 27 March, 2007
Vernissage: March 1, 8.00 pm
On March 1st, at 8pm, at ÁNGELES PENCHE Art Gallery, Madrid, my new Solo Exhibition, entitled SiE7E (SEVEN), was inaugurated . It will remain open until March 27, 2007.
I show some pictures of the Gallery and the Vernissage day. I hope you like it.
AROUND SEVEN
“Seven is a number loaded with universal symbolism. It is associated with the idea of a finished and complete whole, symbolizing, in our culture, the relationship of the divine with the human, whose culmination is the Creation carried out by God in seven days…
… “And on the seventh day, he rested.” [Genesis, II, 2]
A week has seven days, and each of the phases of the moon Seven were the heavenly bodies that influenced the Earth and the number of spheres in the sky.
The sages of the ancient age were seven; seven were the wonders of the ancient world. Rome was the city of the seven hills, and of the seven kings.
Seven are also the Christian sacraments; the capital sins and their corresponding theological virtues. Seven were, the food multiplied by Jesus (5 loaves of bread and 2 fish), the phrases he pronounced on the cross, the pains and the joys of the Virgin. Seven are the seals which, in the Apocalypse, are opened before the wrath of God is unleashed, who subjects the world to seven judgements and is escorted by seven angels who sound seven trumpets to send seven punishments on the unjust. Seven are the canonical hours.
There are seven heavens in Islam. Also seven lands and seven seas. And seven evil days. Seven turns must the faithful make around the temple of Mecca.
Seven candles are lit by the Jews in their seven-branched candlestick. Since God rested on the seventh day, that is his day of rest, the “Sabbath”.
Seven are the veils of the sacred dance. Seven are the hermetic principles.
Alfonso X’s famous Partidas are seven. Seven were the Infantes de Lara as sung in the Romancero.
Shakespeare wrote that seven are the ages of the human.
Seven are the lives of the cat. Also the number of leagues the ogre walked in the Perrault’s tale with his boots. And seven were the dwarfs of Snow White.
Seven are the musical notes. Also the colors of the rainbow. And the arts. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen, 1954), The Seventh Seal (Ingman Berman, 1956) or The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960), are part of the seventh art.
In this exhibition for the year two thousand and seven, I present seven series of seven works each. What better title could I find for this exhibition which will be my seventh individual exhibition in an Art Gallery?”
Javier Aoiz Orduna, March 2007
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