 | "The Black Madonna of Newark" is now on display in the Divinity School's Sterling Quadrangle. |
Margot E. Fassler, director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM), has announced that the artist Frederick Franck has donated his sculpture "The Black Madonna of Newark" to the institute.
The work, part of the recent exhibition of Franck's work at ISM, will make its home at Sterling Divinity Quadrangle.
"This is a work of extraordinary power and beauty," Fassler says. "Although it is made of steel, it has a plastic quality: it transforms the space around it, and the Madonna is herself transformed by the ambience, by the quality of the light that shines on her and shadow she casts. The sculpture can be appreciated outdoors or within our halls, and it is sure to be widely appreciated by generations to come. It is a most welcome addition to the institute's collection."
The artist says that his impulse to donate "The Black Madonna" to ISM "was irresistible when I realized my work to be integrated, however fleetingly, in its function to preserve and honor the inner bloodstream of our culture, so powerfully and constantly threatened. I felt my work would participate in the affirmation of the profoundly human, beyond time, beyond racial and religious demarcation lines. This is not to me a matter of conservatism, but of unbreakable fidelity to our most human vocation."
The sculpture is currently on display outside the Divinity Library at Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, 409 Prospect St. The building is open to the public weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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