A modern transposition of the saint-John Apocalypse
G.L.Marchal is a French artist born in 1927 and was a disciple of the sculptor Zadkine. Living in Castres since 1970 (south-west of France), he has achieved a work that reconciled in some ways the style of modern expressionist and baroque comic strips with the remote and serious meditation of roman art. He's introduced famous modern characters as symbols of justice throughout history (Gandhi, Teresa of Avila, Blaise Pascal, the Bouddha and his friend Zadkine, etc..) and injustice (famous bloody dictators) to remind us that this book of the Bible still has an eternal message: there is at each period of history a choice between justice or violence, love or self-determination, between the spirit of reconciliation or that of destruction. There is no neutral position in history; we are bound to commit ourselves to God's affirmation of life and creation or to death's fascination and its irreversible trend towards « de-creation ». Christ sits to the right of the Father as the only man worthy to open the seals of the Book: represented as an innocent Lamb and a King of mercy and justice for ever, he's received the grace to take men and women from all nations to the Kingdom of God, his Father and our Father.
We invite you to see a very instructive explanation of the frescoes here.
