Puerta 1808
The number in its name represents the year 1808 referencing the country's pre-independence events of 1810. Despite its name, it is an abstract sculpture that is not a traditional gateway-shaped figure. Felguérez said it represents one symbolically as it is the starting point to the historic center of Mexico City. He also dedicated it to Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos, a New Spain lawyer imprisoned by the Spanish authorities for his independentist advocacy and who died in a prison in 1808. Puerta 1808 was created specifically for the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the country's independence. The work was complemented with the Fuente de la República placed a few meters away.
Álvaro Medina, from the Durban Segnini Gallery, described the sculpture as a "structure composed of a pair of triangles, the trunk of a cone divided vertically, a pair of cantilevered arched beams, a tubular linear beam and a few tensors".
Later in his life, Felguérez said about Puerta 1808: "It is a living sculpture: it changes its look in every demonstration; it is colored with the slogans of the nonconformists in turn. And this, far from bothering me or being a grievance for the sculpture, gives it dynamism and validity that will only be exhausted when we live in a fair country and when all social demands have been satisfied. That is to say, never".
References
- ^ "Declara Manuel Felguérez a Puerta 1808 una entrada al Centro Histórico" [Manuel Felguérez declares Puerta 1808 an entrance to the Historic Center]. La Jornada (in Spanish). 21 November 2007. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ^ Cuéllar Moreno, José Manuel (12 June 2020). "Puertas y pasillos en la obra de Manuel Felguérez" [Gateways and corridors in the work of Manuel Felguérez]. Milenio (in Spanish). Mexico City. Archived from the original on 22 March 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ "'Puerta 1808'". La Crónica de Hoy (in Spanish). 21 October 2007. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ^ Tagle, Ana; Paz, Reyna; Cruz, Antimio; Herrera, Eleane (9 June 2020). "'Felguérez abrió muchas puertas y dimensiones'" [Felguérez opened many doors and dimensions']. La Crónica de Hoy (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ MacMasters, Merry (13 December 2007). "Manuel Felguérez conceptualiza lo que llama 'la entrada al Centro Histórico'" [Manuel Felguérez conceptualizes what he calls 'the entrance to the Historic Center']. La Jornada (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 July 2022.
- ^ "Manuel Felguérez Catalogue Durban Segnini Gallery". Durban Segnini Gallery. November 2016. Archived from the original on 22 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022 – via Issuu.
External links
Media related to Puerta 1808 by Manuel Felguérez at Wikimedia Commons