MARIO SEPULCRE

11 A purifying fruit, present in multiple moments of biblical history, in many ancestral cultures it symbolises the goods given by God to humanity, starting from the moment when he created a garden in Eden, where the tree of knowledge – often represented by a lemon tree – grew and whose fruit Adam and Eve ate. Classical mythology makes reference to the ‘golden apple tree’ as the most valuable jewel of the Garden of the Hesperides, also represented as a lemon tree, and its fruit on the table symbolised original sin. The sumptuous lemon hides its juicy essence in its flesh and bears no ill will to the blade of the knife that encages it, peels it and makes it sick, as it only wounds its appearance – underneath its firm, broken skin it lets out its very essence. Creating similes with humanity’s own decadence, Sepulcre suggests interesting parallels that he skilfully plays with, creating a unique, clean and, above all, completely innovative discourse that is built around the restless search for harmony between thought and beauty. Luisa Noriega Montiel LLEI D’ART Editor in Chief