Personnage au Portique

Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Category: Art · Subcategory: Sculpture · Year: 2022 · Authors: Parvine Curie

With this sculpture, the work of the Franco-Iranian artist Parvine Curie, located on the Rambla de las Asuncionistas and inaugurated in June 2022, Santa Cruz, through the City Council and the Official College of Architects of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro (COACTFE), expands the already extensive International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition.

Titled Personnage au Portique (Figure in the Portico), it is a bronze casting placed on a concrete plinth. Its main characteristic is given by the nudity and formal austerity, achieved through the purity of lines and materials.

With this work the artist pays tribute to her son David, who died in 2007, the fruit of the relationship Parvine Curie maintained with the Catalan sculptor Marcell Martí, who, in turn, participated in the 1st Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition of 1973 with an untitled work located on Avenida 25 de Julio.

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