Stations of the Cross (I): Jesus is Condemned to Death (Final Version)
Stations of the Cross (I): Jesus is Condemned to Death (Final Version)
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Installation
Year of Work: 2002
Media: mixed media on canvas
Size: 36" x 24"
This painting was funded by art collectors Ray & Pauline Treen. It will hang in the subdued light of the vestibule of St John on Bethnal Green, London, as part of a major commission for 14 Stations of the Cross. See Commissions page for further details on the entire series of works.
In this painting Gollon has the sunlight subtely obscuring part of the window bar, giving a premonition of the Cross, just as Jesus is being condemned to death. Surrounded and alone his fate is ineluctable. Gollon heightens the sense of reality by placing the real figure of Jesus amongst grotesque guards and his cartoon-like masked mockers. There is a sense of evil-doing, and the guard's hand, (accentuated by a typically Gollonesque viewfinder or close-up device), pushes us away from seeing.
Chris Gollon's 'Stations of the Cross' in St. John on Bethnal Green Church:
This painting was reviewed in Richard Crowe's article in New York's Whitehot Magazine Feb 2008
Stations of the Cross (I): Jesus is Condemned to Death (Final Version)
'Stations of the Cross (II): Jesus Takes Up His Cross' (Final Version)
Stations of the Cross (III): Jesus Falls a First Time
'Stations of the Cross (IV): Jesus Meets His Mother' (Final Version)
Stations of the Cross (V): Simon the Cyrenean Helps Jesus'
'Stations of the Cross (VI): Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus'
Stations of the Cross (VII): Jesus Falls A second Time
Stations of the Cross VIII: Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem
Stations of the Cross IX: Jesus Falls A Third Time
Stations of the Cross (X): Jesus Is Stripped Of His Garments
Stations of the Cross XI: Jesus Is Nailed To the Cross
Stations of the Cross XII: Jesus Dies On The Cross
Stations of the Cross XIII: Jesus Is Taken Down from The Cross
Stations of the Cross XIV: Jesus Is Laid In The Sepulchre
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