Almudena Alvarez | Palencia, May 16 (EFE).- It can be said that the artist Rosana Largo leads a fabled life. That is why it is not surprising that it has a museum dedicated to stories in the Palencia town of Paredes de Nava, the birthplace of the Berruguete family, and that magic has brought together art, stories and the province of Palencia in a luminous giant in Times Square, In New York.
The artist Rosana Largo promotes the Museum of Stories and Science, in Paredes de Nava (Palencia), together with her pictorial work and her image, through a sign in Times Square, in New York. EFE/ Rosana Largo EDITORIAL USE ONLY/ ONLY PERMITTED USE TO ILLUSTRATE THE ACCOMPANYING NEWS/ (MANDATORY CREDIT)
“It’s a dream,” the artist confessed to EFE in a telephone conversation from her studio in Valladolid while preparing her suitcase to travel to Venice where, in addition to being a finalist for the Pegaso Award with a Venetian mask, she presents a parade of models with costumes inspired by the Paredes de Nava Tales Museum.
Rosana Largo, who since she was little dreamed of pencils and brushes in the bookstore that her parents ran in Urueña (Valladolid), has organized scientific exhibitions throughout Spain that relate literature, art and science and has placed her hyperrealist paintings in medium-sized exhibitions. world.
cosmopolitan work
His work has been internationally recognized in New York, Lisbon, Miami, Madrid, Dubai, Rome or at the Louvre Museum in Paris and has received awards such as the Michelangelo International Prize for Painting, in Rome; the Da Vinci Prize, in Florence; the Giotto Award, in Portugal; the Dante Alighieri Prize, in Padua; or the New York City award.
The last one has been his inclusion in the Paris Academy of Sciences and Arts where he is a finalist for the medal that people like Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie or Picasso have achieved, he explains.
With this background, it was not surprising that the Asian gallery owner, Mr. Lam, responsible for the advertising that is placed on billboards in New York, contacted her to project her work on the Times Square billboards.
Times square
“I had seen a painting of mine, “Leonardo Da Vinci’s Dream of Flying” and I wanted it to be seen in Times Square,” explains the artist, who even dared to set conditions and ask the gallery owner to link her work to the Museum of Los Angeles. Stories and the Science of Paredes de Nava (Palencia).
Obviously, Mr. Lam was unaware that the Palencia Museum, located in a deconsecrated 15th century church, is unique in its kind, because there is no other in Spain that has opted to explain stories and science through art. But he did know Pedro Berruguete, the painter born in Paredes de Nava and that was the link that Rosana Largo found to sell her idea.
The result was an image of two works by the artist, “El Sueño de volar” and “Naturaleza viva” by Leonardo Da Vinci, with the background of King David de Berruguete -image of the main altarpiece of the church of Santa Eulalia in Paredes de Nava- and an image of him -which was used to advertise a well-known jewelry brand- with the label Museum of Stories and Science Paredes de Nava (Palencia) on the giant screen in Times Square.
The big Apple
It could be seen last Friday, at eight in the evening New York time, in the Big Apple. “It’s something barbaric, wonderful,” says Rosana Largo, delighted with the international projection that the province of Palencia has had thanks to her work, and specifically Paredes de Nava, “a town to which I owe a lot and that is always with me” , assures.
In fact, it was when he discovered Berruguete’s work in the church of Santa Eulalia de Paredes when he was only seven years old that he decided that art was going to be his thing. “Berruguete was my first reference, that is why it has been so emotional to put him in New York”.
Not in vain, with his childish interpretation of David de Berruguete, he decorated a wall of his grandmother’s breadbasket who lived in Villaeles de Valdavia “and there he continues”. Just like the roof of his parents’ house that she decorated as if it were the Sistine Chapel when she was 10 years old.
And now the stories
This has been the first time that Paredes de Nava has shone in New York, but it will not be the only time, because Mr. Lam has promised to once again publicize Rosana Largo’s work on the billboards of the Big Apple and Rosana does not hesitate or a second that his work will be accompanied by something representative of the Palencia town, the birthplace of the Berruguete family and Jorge Manrique’s Coplas.
“They have given me free rein and we will once again promote the Tales of Walls museum in New York”, affirms Rosana Largo. She will then travel to New York and meet Mr. Lam.
He also plans to live one day in Paredes de Nava, where the Museum of Tales is located, where you can see all the works he has made by hand for 14 years, dynamic pieces that, combining painting, sculpture and engineering, reinterpret classic tales in a very personal, that of someone who has decided to live a fairytale life. EFE