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Clara Morera (b. 1944)
John the Apostle and The Book of the Seven Seals,
(Juan El Apóstol y El Libro
de los Siete Sellos), 2024
mixed media on canvas
42 x 28 3/4 inches
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, page 116.
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Morera’s John the Apostle and The Book of the Seven Seals (2024)
takes its inspiration from Revelation 10:8-10. In this passage, the Apostle John
is confronted by an angel who instructs him to eat a scroll fastened with seven seals,
each seal representing a catastrophe. The scroll is sweet to taste but bitter to the stomach.
John’s act of consuming the scroll symbolizes the internalization of a message despite its
troubling
content. In our media-saturated age, “consuming the scroll” assumes a new meaning:
processing the daily barrage of information and misinformation.
NICO HOUGH
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