FECHA DE EXPOSICIÓN SIN CONFIRMAR The project centers on the oeuvre of contemporary Spanish artist José Maria Cano featuring his Apostolate’s Series, on view at The San Diego Museum of Art through September 2, 2019, on the occasion of the opening of Art & Empire: The Golden Age of Spain. In this contemporary take on the “apostolate,” José-María Cano cites the significance of the number twelve: “as the twelve tribes of Israel and the zodiac signs. Twelve is not just any number. It relates the sun, the moon and the Earth. It is the number of lunar cycles that occurs when the Earth goes around the sun.” In this resin series, begun in 2015 and completed in 2019 to coincide with Art and Empire: The Golden Age of Spain, Cano offers a present-day collection of portraits of ordinary men, who become extraordinary in his paintings.