La nueva estética del camino neocatecumenal en la obra de Kiko Argüello. 1964-2018

Abstract

The movement of liturgical and theological renewal of the s. XX was an attempt to return to the sources of the Christian life and encourage its modernization, seeking answers to three problematic realities of the time: the liturgy, the Church and the Bible. There is currently a project of aesthetic renovation in sacred art in progress, which recovers patristic, biblical, and iconographic models of the past and expresses them in a new way from contemporary art. It is the proposal of a New Aesthetics by the Spanish painter Kiko Argüello (1939-), founder of the Neocatechumenal Way together with the graduate in Chemistry and Theology Carmen Hernández (1930-2016), itinerary of Christian initiation that arises in the slums of the poor in Madrid in 1964, at the time of the Second Vatican Council and, because of the pastoral need, develops an artistic renovation within the Catholic Church. This renewal is based on three axial points. The first two are of an aesthetic order: the creation of new architectural spaces and the recovery of the icon for Western art. The third axis is of ecclesial or spiritual order, given that the New Aesthetics helps the configuration of a "celestial village" (the Christian community), which feeds on art and faith for its growth.