MÓVIL (FRANCISCO SOBRINO)

This kinetic work consists of a mobile executed by means of tubes and metallic spheres. Being composed of a round tube that emerges vertically from the base fixed to the ground. At a low height from its upper end, another tube, equally round, of smaller thickness was placed horizontally. From the ends of the same and in vertical two parallel tubes are raised one higher than the other, finished off with a turning system from which a tube comes out, which is introduced into the central sphere of each of the modules that is extended to Support another sphere. Two other pipes protrude from the central sphere to the ground.

MATERIALS

Iron and painted poly ster

DIMENSIONS

HEIGHT u2248 12.00

WIDTH u2248 12.00

FUND u2248 0.90

Francisco Sobrino, sculptor born in Guadalajara in 1932, who died in 2014 in Breta a. This artist is one of the great creators of the twentieth-century Ptic-Kinetic movement, whose voluminous works are exhibited in various public spaces around the world. This author is a great representative of constructive art. Sobrino's outdoor realizations employ a variety of industrial materials, from stainless steel to plexigl s. According to the critic Frank Popper, he is the first to build interfering structures.

MUNICIPALITY Santa Cruz de Tenerife

AREA Downtown Ifara District

ADDRESS Plaza of the Dominican Republic

COORDINATES

X 376,392.69

And 3,149,293.78

GUERRA P REZ, MI; MARRERO MORALES, M. (2017): u2018 Initiation to the study of contemporary art: art, another form of communication: international exhibition of street sculpture. Santa Cruz de Tenerife u2019, General Directorate of Educational Innovation and Planning, Canary Islands.

OROPESA HERN NDEZ, T. (1994): u2018Public sculpture in the Canary Islands u2019 , Doctoral Thesis, Tenerife.

EUROPE PRESS. [Online]. [Date of consultation: July 1, 2017]. Available at: http://www.europapress.es/cultura/noticia-canarias-escultura-movil-tenerife-francisco-sobrino-restaurada-gracias-patrocinio-cepsa-20101108175012.html

OFFICIAL COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTS OF THE CANARY ISLANDS. [Online]. [Date of consultation: July 1, 2017]. Available at: http://www.coactfe.org/ncm/COACTFE/published_coac/DEFAULT/s_cultura_ec_1_francisco_sobrino.html