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Religious Painting

The story of the Passion of Christ has resonated in Rando’s conscience from an early age as it indeed does in the collective imagination of the Christian world. This shared iconographic heritage allows us to recognize the different characters and scenes despite the brushstrokes tending increasingly towards abstraction. Some of the faces are featureless and others take on a cartoonish appearance. 

Jorge Rando believes that life is full of Passions: suffering and redemption. His various cycles represent some of them. The one that stands out above all others is the Passion of Christ, an episode rich with human ‘passions’, such as betrayal and injustice, but also love, forgiveness and redemption. LOVE, of course, is the one that reigns over all of them. Rando presents universal love as the only possibility of salvation for humankind. As a Christian, he uses the figure of Christ to symbolise it. 

As usual, this cycle conveys a message of HOPE. 

My Passion... wants to come out of the darkness and into the Light of Hope, the Light of Resurrection, the Light of Happiness, the Light of Lights that is the Light of Love. 
Jorge Rando