CULMINATION OF THE SCULPTURE GROUP OF JESUS DE LA VERDAD

 

The parish group of Ntro. Padre Jesús de la Verdad before Caifás and María Santísima del Sagrario, based in the parish of San José Obrero in the neighborhood of Carranque in Málaga, will present for the procession on next Passion Saturday, April 1, 2023, the completion of the sculptural group of its Christian owner. Thus, the last 2 images of the set will be released.

The first will be the figure of a Sanhedrin soldier, the work and donation of the Philippine artist Wilfredo Tadeo Layug, also the author of the two main images of the corporation. For the realization of this new character, the Malaga restorer Miguel Ángel Gálvez has also participated, who has proceeded to work on the assembly and consolidation of the piece, which presents his fully anatomized body. The soldier's clothing was made by the embroiderer from Malaga, Juan Manuel Sánchez Quiñones, and the leather goods (armor, skirt, bracelets and sandals) are the work of José Sánchez Ferriz.

Thus, a mystery ends up configuring in which before the serenity of Jesus of Truth, contrasts the gesture of anger of the High Priest Caiaphas, tearing his clothes; his father-in-law, Annas, in a gesture of surprise pointing to the torah with the yad; and the violence of the new Sanhedrite soldier, who in a foreshortening pulls the rope to remove the Lord from the scene.

According to Layug's own words, the character, with marked ethnic features, seems to shout to the Lord, and with his counterpost some interesting dynamisms are generated in the final result of the double dialogue of the 4 actors.