Exordium, the Triton

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Art · Subcategory: Sculpture · Year: 2010 · Authors: Manolo González

The poetic base for the speech behind the proposition of sculpture is book two of Las rosas de Hércules, by Tomás Morales. As for this intended speech, it can be read in the website by Manolo González.

The speech is the sense and intentionality of sculpture; a call on the general public, governors, locals and visitors, to excellence. The sculpture is set out as an exordium with a double aim. Firstly, to announce the arrival at the city and give a warm welcome, and secondly, exhort the general public and their leaders to a common act, in an intelligent and sensitive manner, which, in the poem by Tomás Morales is shaped in the construction of the Vessel (our city), and its parametres, beams, struts and length, interpreted as metaphors of the three structural attributes of human excellence.

In the poem XVIII, Tomás Morales calls on us through the voice of Triton, with a beautiful rally cry urbi et orbe with which he invites us all to be part, of a great crossing by the vessel; the bonanza of the voyage depending on the good deeds of everyone. The speech is made up of a sculpture based on the three essential elements of the sea, leaving its "mark" in the air as it comes to land (evoking the three attributes referred to), out of which the character emerges, who, with his lower limbs reminiscent of its hybrid-marine nature (just like the very nature of the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) to be then crowned in splendid, perfect humanity, with a clear gesturing, blowing into his identity shell, callings us into action.

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