The art critic and curator Pilar Parcerisas started the activities of the new year of the Sean Scully Art and Spirituality Institute in Santa Cecilia de Montserrat. Parcerisas gave a lecture on the representation of the sacred in the art of the twentieth century, conducting a thorough review of how some of the most prominent artists had shaped their spiritual thoughts. In this sense, the renowned art historian proposed a vision of the return to the sacred from the fragility of human existence as one of the main challenges of the contemporary art. Indeed she offered this vision of the twentieth century about the change of the transition from religious iconography to a spiritual dimension of art, seen plastic examples, from painting to action. The talk took place in the former refectory of the monastery.