Something extraordinary is happening in Seville Cathedral. Under the artistic direction of Florencio Ortiz Bernal, the largest altarpiece in Christendom—this colossus of wood, history and faith—is transformed each night into a living story of light and sound: The Gospel of Wood.
What seemed immovable for centuries now comes to life with moving intensity. Ortiz not only illuminates the high altar: he interprets it, feels it and turns it into visual poetry. The show projects not just images, but emotions—and it does so with the precision of someone who masters both art and technique.
30 minutes to shake the senses
For half an hour, the altarpiece’s more than 400 m²—standing 26 meters high and 18 wide—carry us on a sensory journey. Light becomes a brush, music a breath, projections a revelation. Details invisible to the naked eye emerge powerfully, as if the wood’s soul had waited centuries to tell us its story.
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Florencio Ortiz, winner of the Lorca and ADE Awards, unfurls here the mastery he has amassed through collaborations with great names of flamenco and theatre (Eva Yerbabuena, Isabel Bayón, Estrella Morente…). Today, that talent lights up the heart of Seville.
When technology serves sacred art
The technical deployment has been made possible thanks to DIVISION PROYECTOS AUDIOVISUALES S.L., with Pedro Muñoz at the helm, and the support of SeeSound, which has accompanied the entire process from its first steps. Behind the scenes, technology shines brightly:
- 4 Martin ERA 800 Performance units illuminate every corner of the altarpiece with almost surgical precision.
- A Pixera One Dual PX1‑2‑G2 server and a Dante Virtual Soundcard PXO‑AD orchestrate perfect synchrony between image and sound.
- The CueCore3 system from Visual Productions ensures that every scene is triggered with absolute reliability.
- Everything is programmed with MA Lighting, an essential tool for shaping Ortiz’s creative design.
Emotion first
From SeeSound, Adrián del Pino and Juan Antonio Ramos have been key players, working shoulder to shoulder with the artistic team to ensure that emotion is not lost in the cables but flows to every last spectator.
Seeing the past with new eyes
The Gospel of Wood is not just a show. It is a new way of looking at heritage, of feeling the spirituality sculpted between the 15th and 16th centuries. More than 200 biblical passages carved into the altarpiece now speak to us from the present with a language of light, music and emotion that crosses every barrier. It is not history. It is living art.
