The Museum in the gardens of the Cathedral of Malaga is the first and only one open air museum existing in Malaga.

At the beginning of 2007, the former Dean Mr. Francisco Garcia Mota contacted me because he wanted the old wooden yokes, and some of iron, to be restored and be shown. That was the origin of making the open air museum.

First I restored the yokes and I used them together with the clappers to integrate them in some of the sculptures that compose the museum, some weighing more than two tons. The challenge was to raise those impressive yokes of the 18th century and capture the sound of the bells. That was the great challenge; and I solved it using the space as a mass.

I placed the crosses at the base of the tower; crosses which were already showed in the exhibition I did at the Episcopal Palace in 2008, “a real forest of crosses where the author reflects upon the universal symbolism of the cross”.

And as a last sculpture I did the Embrace to the Cross, a purely Expressionist sculpture, strong and powerful, embracing the cross… To get a hold or to hold it? The legend engraved in the iron says: “the embrace to the cross is the embrace to love”.

In these times in which the symbol of Christians is so fiercely attacked, the cross, we cannot remain silent; we must proclaim our faith through it… through the symbol of love.
Christian art does not sell, but we, Christian artists, must always testify our faith at all moments of life; and part of it must be devoted to make art, to recreate what the Supreme Creator already created, to discover that we only are instruments of that Great strength that leads our hand at the moment of creation.

Christian artists must never hide their beliefs, at no moment, though that may sometimes go against their success in the world of art.

Jorge Rando, Malaga, September 2009