EL MURO (JUAN BORDES)

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
- Bienes Muebles. Escultura -




The work belonged to the II International Exhibition of Street Sculpture. A cultural event that took place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1994, organized by the Official College of Architects of the Canary Islands, in collaboration with the Island Council, City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Caja Canarias, in which various works were exhibited that Even today they are in the capital of Tenerife, except for the work of 'Hombre a Caballo ' , by Fernando Botero, which was the only one returned.



El Muro (Juan Bordes)

The wall or story of a balance, work in bronze, was originally located on the Rambla General Franco, facing one side of the wall of the Almeida Barracks, and this place had a relationship more in line with the sculpture. A set of five figures is developed in different postures and placed in a large structure that in turn is divided into two parts, the upper part is blind panels (which could be related to the opposite wall that is also a gray blind wall) and the lower one where the bodies are placed. The result is a large screen or showcase that shows human movements with the muscular tensions of a physical activity.

MATERIALS

Bronze

DIMENSIONS

HEIGHT u2248 2.75 m.

WIDTH u2248 6.30 m.

FUND u2248 0.50 m.


Juan Bordes was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1948. Between 1965 and 1972 he studied architecture in Madrid, a job he played between 1972 and 1974, and then devoted himself exclusively to sculpture. In 1976 he began his teaching work as a professor at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and, in 1988, he became a full professor of the Department of Architectural Composition, after having obtained the title of Doctor in 1986 with the thesis The sculpture as an element of composition in the building: its regulations in the Spanish, French and Italian Static Tratad. As a sculptor, he trained at the Luj n P rez School in Las Palmas with Abraham C rdenas, and his first works were directed towards erotic sculpture, to later opt for realism.

Bordes is an academic of the Royal Canary Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arc ngel and of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, for which he was elected on January 24, 2005. Enter October 29, 2006, with the entrance speech The childhood of the artist or the sources of the Nile.



El Muro (Juan Bordes)

MUNICIPALITY Santa Cruz de Tenerife

AREA Downtown Ifara District

ADDRESS Intersection n Avda. Reyes Cat licos with Avda. Benito P rez Armas

COORDINATED S

X 377,976.19

And 3,150,409.26


SANTANA, L. (1992). Juan Bordes. Council of Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands.

JUAN EDGES . [Online]. [Date of consultation: July 1, 2017]. Available at: http://www.juanbordes.com/principal.htm


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