A la sombra de La Roja
About This Exhibition
Exhibition by artist Rosa Brun exploring themes of memory, power, desire and refuge, inspired by Emperor Charles V's journey to Granada and the Alhambra, featuring monumental paintings, sculptures and installations in dialogue with the Hospital Real.
Description
Translated from the organiser's original listing
With A la sombra de La Roja (In the Shadow of The Red One), artist Rosa Brun opens the exhibition cycle Buscar el fresco de Granada, organised by La Madraza, the University of Granada's Centre for Contemporary Culture, in collaboration with Fundación Unicaja. The cycle inaugurates an ambitious cultural programme commemorating the university's 500th anniversary in 2026. The exhibition is inspired by the journey of Emperor Charles V and his wife Isabella of Portugal to Granada, an intimate encounter from which their son Philip II was born. From this historical episode, Brun constructs an artistic proposal evoking ideas of memory, power, desire and refuge, while maintaining her characteristic abstract language in dialogue with the Hospital Real's crucero, a building connected to the Alhambra, also known as "La Roja" (The Red One). True to her neo-constructivist and post-minimalist trajectory, the artist works with overlapping planes to create spaces and zones of shadow, geometry and, above all, colour. Red, black and metallic tones take centre stage, inspired by both the Alhambra and Titian's imperial portraits, where these tones symbolise authority, spirituality and depth. The exhibition brings together works from different periods in a constellation-like arrangement rather than a retrospective. Monumental paintings, sculptures and installations transform the Hospital Real space through plays of inclination, shadow and volume. The standout piece is the sculpture 1x10 to the power of 32, a large suspended black form evoking a black hole, referencing interests in the cosmos, the sublime and the infinite. Curators: Antonio Collados, Domingo Campillo and Marisa Mancilla (programme); Isabel Tejeda (exhibition) Venue: Crucero Bajo del Hospital Real Dates: 24 February to 5 May 2026 Hours: Monday to Friday, 11am to 2pm and 5:30pm to 8:30pm Opening: 24 February at 7pm Admission: Free