For the Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend, Benveniste Contemporary presents a new project with Jacobo Castellano (Jaén, 1976) entitled Retablos, a series of original graphic works printed and edited by Benveniste Contemporary and co-produced with the artist. One of the most important works in the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid is undoubtedly the Retablo Mayor de San Benito El Real. In it we can see the extraordinary display of carvings, polychromes and flesh tones developed by Alonso Berruguete, one of the most important Spanish sculptors of all time. With an iconography based on the childhood of Christ and the life of Saint Benedict, this altarpiece is presented to us in pieces throughout three rooms of the museum, without losing an iota of its monumentality and interest. The excellent current layout allows us to observe the back of this great work and that is where Castellano focuses his attention. In that area there are no polychromes and the estofado technique is very far away, or rather, literally on the other side. The placement of the work allows us to analyse the austere, but no less interesting and necessary, work of the craftsmen who have remained in the dark until now; a work hidden between the majesty of the Berruguete carvings and the whitewash of the wall of the monastery of San Benito. This novel perspective allows for an interesting reading of the streets and bodies of this construction, stripped of any iconographic hint. The sobriety of the artisanal work shows us in a blatant way the contact of the axes, chisels and saws with the wood, tools that are far from the rasps or fine gouges wielded by the great masters. The backs of the niches and friezes, rivets, wedges and various accidents are engraved in Jacobo Castellano's retina, where he sees a sort of "B side of everything seen before". In these works, Castellano emulates and vindicates the good workmanship and the essence of artisanal work, essential and silent, but not silenced, thanks to the excellent current installation of the altarpiece and, of course, to these works that we have the great pleasure of presenting now.