Despite the extension of the State of Alarm and the confinement that we are living, the Matrix Brotherhood of Almonte has presentedthe poster announcing the liturgical celebration of Pentecost this year, in which the light; the one we are looking for at the end of this pandemic, takes a primary role, in a composition created in watercolor and acrylic, by the young pacense artist José Tomás Pérez Indiano.
Under the circumstances and with Ntra Parish. Mrs. de la Asunción de Almonte closed, the poster was made public through her social networks this morning. Pérez Indiano, has shown his appreciation for this commission and the "honour" that has intended to make this poster in a year that there will be no Pilgrimage, but Rocío, "always with the Virgin and with faith in her", and whose work has donated to the Matrix Brotherhood so that it can thicken the Charity Exchange at these times so complicated for many families.
In the work emerges the face of the Blessed Virgin of the Rocío and her Blessed Son in a golden of white and blue tones and crowned by the flame of Pentecost. Flames that spring from the Holy Spirit and that poses his Divine Gifts in the Blessed Virgin. The one that prevails over pain and that floods everything with Hope. In an allegory to the triumph of Mary, Virgin and Mother of The Rocío.
We see on the left as an angel bearing the simpet of the Matrix Brotherhood, represents the triumph of good over evil, symbol of Hope, emerging from light and over darkness, wounding with divine spear to evil, symbolized in a dragon that bites the symbol of Covid-19, which means the triumph of Life.
And on the right, God above all that is created. An already historical image that occurred a few days ago, when the parish priest of Almonte exposed the Blessed Sacrament to the gates of the Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption, to bless all the rociero orb, expressed in a vapority that focuses the image on the Blessed Sacrament and on the Virgin of Rocío.
Finally and in the center, below, a beam of light that emerges from the path to True God. An allegory of the Rocío Way that aims to God through his Blessed Mother of the Rocío. It is here that the Divine Little Shepherd emerges from the light and concentrates it in it, causing everything to emerge and depart from his divinity. And a little further down silhouettes of pilgrims on foot and on horseback and the figure of a drummer who, without definition, indicate the history and living flame of all rosemary, pilgrims and the rociero orb on his only true path to light.
In the poster's labeling, three colours have been chosen: black, in a sign of mourning for those who died for this pandemic, many, rocers of various sororities; the green which is the color of hope and the Eucharistic red. And the word Romería has been dispensed with, because it is what is suspended, highlighting the liturgical feast that, in honor of the Blessed Virgin of the Rocío, we celebrate.
About the author
José Tomás Pérez Indiano is an Academic of Merit of the Bonifaiana Academy of the Vatican. His fondness for painting and drawing began from an early age, interested as he was in classical, taurine and religious painting mainly.
His paintings have illustrated posters and covers of magazines of patron saints and pilgrimages. His works can be found in much of the Spanish geography, especially in private collections throughout the national geography, Mexico and the USA, among others.
The work of this young artist from Valencia del Ventoso is summed up in a very personal style, innovating with new techniques and making his work a courageous and risky composition. Brave and daring in his Taurine creations and with a very strong burden on symbolism in his sacred creations. This is the so-called painter of Freshness and Light.