Stations of the Cross (XI): Jesus Is Nailed To the Cross
Stations of the Cross XI: Jesus Is Nailed To the Cross
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Installation
Year of Work: 2007
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 40" x 30"
Kindly sponsored by Dr David & Professor Judith Howard. It will hang in the subdued light of the northern aisle 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 still bright, to create a dramatic silhouette of Jesus's head against the harsh disc of the sun. The guard is once more a grotesque with no ears to hear, making Jesus' fate even more ineluctable. The juxtaposition of this unreal figure with the detailed face of Jesus gives a strange and heightened reality, sharpening the spectator's awareness of the pain inflicted by the nail.
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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