Humanitas: art and passion – Diario de Querétaro

Returning to myth is an inheritance and a necessity that inclines us to recover what we have lost: faith in ourselves, that is, in our own myths.

Myths are a representation of the real.

The myth of the Apostle Santiago el Mayor who appears in Querétaro on July 25, 1531 on the hill of San Gremal, evokes the appearance of the sacred as a founding myth.

The origin of this unique 9th century narrative arises with the discovery of the remains of the Apostle Santiago in the Libredón forest, near the village of Iria Flavia in the kingdom of Galicia and place of the Finis terrae by the hermit Paio and Bishop Teodomiro in the year 824.

Another version of the myth is taken from Book IV of the 12th century Codex Calixtinus, where it is said that the Apostle Santiago appeared in a dream to the King of the Franks, Carlo the Great, after the battle of Roncesvalles in 778. In this dream Christ’s apostle directed him to follow the blaze of white light in the sky, which the king had warned from the Pyrenees. “The route of the stars that you have seen in the sky (The Milky Way) means that you will march to Galicia, at the head of a great army, and that, after you, all the peoples will go there on pilgrimage until the consummation of the centuries”.

The plastic artist Gabriela Rosado on the occasion of the 490 years of the founding of our city, shows us in the exhibition “Santiago Apóstol: Knight and pilgrim by the grace of God” in the Museum of Art of Querétaro, renewed images of the myth.

The constant experimentation of the artist and her influences from Catalan informalism to contemporary art, allow us to observe a mature, almost sacred vision of the events that have marked the tradition and culture of Santiago de Querétaro and Santiago Compostela. The bifocal vision (from Spain and Mexico) of these events reveals the strength that the sacred contains in art and particularly in painting. Gabriela has found in symbols the mystical and secret messages that tradition has inherited from us.

His iconography is an indication that we have salvation, his strokes are firm, with his brush he narrates one of the most beautiful stories of our city and the world, with which we activate our memory and renew our identity in this technological and contemporary world. .

What his message unfolds is that the Camino de Santiago leads us to Finis terrae, the sacred place of the Celts; at the door of the Atlantic the abode of Poseidon, and at the tomb of the apostle of Christ Santiago the elder, brother of John the Evangelist.

In Querétaro the presence of the sacred is present in the neighborhoods and in the streets that lead us to the San Gremal hill where, thanks to the Apostle Santiago and the original peoples, syncretism bequeathed us the Holy Cross of miracles.

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