Last Monday, the Centro Sefarad-Israel presented the exhibition The Gates of Hell (Las puertas del infierno), a personal vision of the artist Santiago de la Quintana, which will be on display until 15 April.
Through different oil paintings and sculptures, the author tries to represent the feelings experienced when the horrors of the Holocaust became known. His paintings are also a reflection of a personal connection that comes from the fact that his grandchildren are Jewish and the possible fate they would have had in Nazi Europe.
In the author’s own words, this exhibition responds to: “A necessity. After visiting the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (Berlin) in the summer of 2019 and in the face of the horror and pain felt throughout the tour of the place, I felt the need to contribute something, even if it was just a grain of sand, for the memory of these people. I am not Jewish, but so much pain brings us all together to cry out ‘never again’.
