DIVINITY

Enlightenment Vs Doctrine

Enlightenment vs Doctrine

Divinity features the most spiritual part of Guirado's work, illuminated by Western religious traditions and the meditative practice of Eastern doctrines. The balance that opens the mind's eye, that which is referred to as the Third Eye. Kali's Tunnel, through which strolls a pacific and patient wisdom faced with eternal conflicts, such as the Jewish-Palestinian one. Eternal salvation or damnation in the hell of crucifixion, of a contemporary Calvary, of terrorism, of wars, of famines. The Judgement Day of Jesus as a man and his sins. Guirado oscillates towards a Universal Prayer that will prevent us from being burned at the stake. It is there that the most Andalusian (Spanish) and Baroque essence joins the essence of other forms of spirituality. "Doctrine" and "Enlightenment" are the blocks into which this line of thought is divided

Kali's Tunnel/ El Tunel de Kali 1989. Collage & Mixed medium on board. CLICK FOR INFO

Underground Reincarnations 2004, Oil on paper. 50x65cm

Toledo 1976
From the beginning of the eighth century until around the end of the fifteenth century, Toledo served as the center of La Convivencia, a golden age of relatively peaceful co-existence between the "Peoples of the Book" in Spain. One of the most important events in medieval intellectual development occurred in Toledo with the transmission of the Greco Roman scientific tradition through translation. Most of the fundamental concepts and texts that revolutionised European scientific thinking originated in the East. Because Spain was part of the Islamic world it had the connections for the reception of these intellectual products which were predominantly in arabised form.
It was in Toledo that learning and wisdom thrived even while the so-called Dark Ages eclipsed the remains of the Roman Empire in the West. Working together in the court of Alfonso the Wise during the 1200s, Muslim, Jewish and Christian scholars rendered available great classical works of philosophy and ancient science by translating them from Arabic, Hebrew, and finally, Latin.