The history of the process by which Michelangelo managed to extract the figure of David from the marble slab has gone down in the history of art. The writer Giorgio Vasari came to describe it as "the miracle of giving life to something that was dead."
This legendary story inspired The Immortal, the last series of intimate black and white paintings by the Basque artist Alain Urrutia (Bilbao 1981). Discarded wooden frames, most from the 1900s, become the painter's own stone block.
