Dante's Inferno: Doré & Rauschenberg PLEASE READ THE FULL TEXT

Written at the beginning of the 14th century by Dante Alighieri, it is the first of the three parts of the Divine Comedy, one of the great works of world literature. More than seven hundred years later, its ability to represent the fears, conflicts, and contradictions of every era remains intact. Each generation has found in its pages new ways to interpret its own world.

In Dante's Inferno. Doré and Rauschenberg, Fundación Canal brings together for the first time the two complete series that Gustave Doré and Robert Rauschenberg dedicated to the Inferno. A total of Protected content that establish a dialogue between two interpretations created nearly a century apart and through radically different artistic languages.

Doré's 76 woodcuts, created in the 19th century, coexist in the exhibition with 35 offset lithographs by Rauschenberg, published in the Protected content . Opposed to Doré's dramatic, monumental, and medievalist aesthetic vision, Rauschenberg offers a fragmented and contemporary perspective, turning the Inferno into a reflection on the society of his time.