Marco Rondena

Technique: Mixed Media, Paint Charcoal and Acrylic

Year: 2025

Size unframed: 30×40 cm

Description: With “Calvary” I wanted to represent the moment when human pain reaches its most extreme point: not only physical suffering, but the absolute despair of feeling abandoned even by God. The face of Christ, at the centre of the work, is disfigured, weeping, writhing in an anguish that does not only belong to the sacred past, but speaks of the present, of our fears, our loneliness.

Around him I painted three halos, each with a precise colour and meaning. Red is suffering, that which runs through bodies and consciences, that of wars, injustice, broken existences. Yellow represents the spirit, the collective conscience that should enlighten us, but which often remains mute and distant. Blue is death, but not only physical death: it is the death of values, of compassion, of responsibility.

“Calvary’ is a mute cry, an image of denunciation. It is my response to the world that is silent before the pain of the last. An invitation to look suffering in the face, without turning away.