Sánchez Castillo is aware of the fact that Bosch’s work has had an huge impact on the Spanish art and his own work in particular. Thanks to the fascination of Philip II for the work of Bosch, a lot of Bosch’s works end up into the Spanish Royal collections. This fascination of Philip II for the work of Bosch will be part of this project.
In the framework of the Hieronymus Bosch 500 year, Sánchez Castillo was inspired by Bosch’s work ‘The Stone of Madness’, which shows how a stone of madness is removed from the head of a man. Here formed the idea for a new installation called ‘The Introduction of the Stone of Madness’. The moralizing undertone in Bosch’s work is in this of great importance. The presentation of this installation is derived from another painting by Bosch, ‘The Hay Wagon’. In this installation form objects, sculptures, drawings and films is presented with as connecting elements: the hidden and the moralizing.
The room in which the exhibition takes place measures 14 x 25 meters and is 5 meters high, no daylight. Most of the sculptures, drawings and objects as well as a display structure have to be transported from the storage of the artist in Madrid to ‘s-Hertogenbosch and back, after the exhibition has ended.