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However, when the museum finally opened its doors to the public on November 19th, 1819 the museum was home to national collection of paintings and sculptures.\u003cbr/\u003eTo coincide with the 194th anniversary of the foundation of the museum, the Prado has allowed Spanish artist Miguel Angel Blanco to develop 22 interventions or installations alongside the museum's most important and renowned works of art.\u003cbr/\u003eIn an exclusive tour of the exhibition, Blanco explains the concept of his installations, the interplay of his ideas with the works of art and how the installation has in a sense created a new dialogue between the artistic and the scientific.\u003cbr/\u003eBlanco's exhibition \"Natural Histories\" begins at the very entrance to the museum through the Goya door. A Golden eagle screeches in to face of King Carlos V, a sculpture constructed by Leone and Pompeo Leoni. The eagle, like all the natural history elements, comes from the vaults of the Spanish Natural History Museum (MNCN) and Centre for Scientific Investigation (CSIC).\u003cbr/\u003eThe use of animal symbolism is omnipresent in nearly all of the installations. The eagle has been associated with imperial power since Charlemagne, and in Blanco's work \"El Furor de las Aguilas/The Fury of Eagles\" the eagle appears to challenge the rule of crown. The name of the piece is taken from the name of the original sculpture - \"Carlos V y el furor/Charles V Dominating Fury\".\u003cbr/\u003e\"El Aquelarre/Witches' Sabbath\" is an unsettling work by Spain's Francisco Goya. Painted during his 'black' period, the scene depicts the devil in the form a male goat summoned up by a group of witches. Blanco uses the painting's references the complete the installation. His use of upside down male goat horns coupled with frogs, salamanders and snakes preserved in formaldehyde complement Goya's 1821-3 original with tangible elements of witchcraft and the occult. Moreover, the addition of a lump of sulphur - the smell associated with the devil - makes the effect total.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Las Meninas\" by Diego de Velazquez, perhaps the Prado's most famous work, is transformed in this exhibition by a new perspective given by the addition of an albino sparrow. Blanco positions the bird - symbolic, he says, of the artist himself - to the right of the picture where daylight is coming in through the window, giving the impression of the sparrow being part of the landscape outside the painting. \u003cbr/\u003eIn another of his audacious interventions: the use of lighting transforms the cold marble of a roman statue invoking the Dolphin Venus (a Roman workshop version of the Mazarin Venus) into a now submerged, undersea world. The statue is transformed by the shadow of a dolphin's skeleton swimming over the top of female deity. The new addition subverts the original. In the Roman version, the dolphin symbolises Venus' birth from the sea but now, the looming skeleton is threatening. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the main hall of the Prado in an exceptional work of taxidermy, the Veragua bull is placed next to the Rape of Europa by Paul Rubens.\u003cbr/\u003eThe bull in Ruben's work, a metamorphosis of Zeus has now presented itself whole, challenging all the other works in the hall. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I am trying with my interventions not only to affect the one (original) work of art but also the other works. In particular these women painted by Rubens who are totally naked who react to the 'stud' by trying to cover themselves. It's a way that the works interact,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003eThe stud bull was created from a plaster cast of the dried out bull with its skin painstakingly replaced over top. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Natural Histories\" is now open to the public and runs until spring 2014.\u003cbr/\u003ePrado Museum, Madrid - November 18, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e++Client note. In this shotlist, the name of the \"transformed\" exhibit (featuring the original piece of art PLUS the addition of a relevant example of natural history) is mentioned first in the shot in inverted commas, the original artwork is mentioned second, with the name of the artist++\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid exhibit \"El Furor de las Aguilas\", Statue of Carlos V by Leone and Pompeo Leoni and Golden Eagle\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close exhibit \"El Furor de las Aguilas\" Golden Eagle\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide interior Prado main hall \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide \"Invocacion Satanic\", El Aquelarre by Francisco de Goya with horns of male goat\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close upside down horns of male goat\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of goat figure in \"El Aquelarre\" \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide \"Invocacion Satanic\" El Aquelarre by Francisco de Goya with horns of male goat\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close frogs, a black mamba and a salamander in formaldehyde\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close piece of sulphur\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide artist Miguel Angel Blanco passes underneath \"El furor de la Aguilas\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid Miguel Angel Blanco looks at \"Un pescado peregrino\", Tortuga Laud by Pedro Juan Tapia and tortoise skull\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel Blanco, Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The origin of this work goes back 3 years, the point is to provoke the idea for which the Villanueva building was constructed - it was constructed to house natural history department of Pedro Franco de Avila and Carlos III. Due to various reasons it never was used for this purpose, and now after 200 years, I am trying, with a contemporary point of view, totally creative, to bring this world to the museum.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid \"Dragones Apocalipticos\", San Miguel by Maestro de Zafra and Tagu Lizard\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close detail of San Miguel by Maestro de Zafra\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide \"Gorrion albino/blanco\", Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez and an albino sparrow\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid \"Gorrion albino/blanco\", Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez and an albino sparrow\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close albino sparrow\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel Blanco, Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the history of art, Velazquez is a \"strange bird\" and I installed an albino sparrow from the Cuenca province but it appears to glow from the snowy mountain range of Guadarrama.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close Prince Baltasar Carlos, the hunter by Diego Velazquez showing Guadarrama mountain range\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel Blanco, Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It converts into a transmutation of spirits, we don't know if the spirit of Velazquez converts into the albino sparrow puffing out his chest or the albino sparrow enters into the picture and transforms into Velazquez.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close detail face of Diego Velaquez in Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide \"Un leviathan engulle a una Diosa\", the Dolphin Venus created in a roman workshop with the skeleton of dolphin\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close skeleton of dolphin and shadow\u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid skeleton of dolphin and Venus \u003cbr/\u003e25. Close face of Venus \u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of \"El toro de Veragua\", The Rape of Europa by Paul Rubens with Veragua bull\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel Blanco, Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is one of the master works of Spanish taxidermy by Jose Maria Benedito, an extraordinary natural composure. Here, I am trying with my interventions not only to affect the one (original) work of art but also the other works. In particular these women painted by Rubens who are totally naked who react to the 'stud' by trying to cover themselves. It's a way that the works interact.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Close detail \"Anatomias comparadas\", Adam and Eve by Albert Durero\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel Blanco, Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What I would like, with reference to the epoch of the illustration, is to illustrate. I would like this exhibition to impart knowledge on natural history as well as allowing the spectator to observe of the master works of the Prado from a different angle. This allows us to deepen our understanding, it creates new feelings of being under a spell, in a trance; it is a new relationship.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Wide exterior Prado Art Museum\u003cbr/\u003e31. Mid exterior publicity poster for exhibition\u003cbr/\u003e32. 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