Street Sculpture Route I: 06. Executors and Executed

Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Category: Route · Subcategory: Street sculpture I · Year: 1973 · Authors: Xavier Corberó

This sculpture located on the Rambla of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was made of painted polyester and concrete by the Catalan sculptor Xavier Corberó (1935-2017) in 1973 for the I International Street Sculpture Exhibition. 

It consists of six modules, each composed of two spheres of the same size joined by a common extension forming a constricted arch in the centre. Three pairs, painted red, are suspended from a tree at different heights by a noose that strangles them. These pieces are mobiles. The other three pairs, painted black, rest on concrete columns at different heights. The work expresses great restlessness and invention, responding to a clear notion of play between movement (the executed) and the static (the executors). 

The sculpture was affected by the passage of storm Delta in 2005, having to be removed after one of the tree branches to which it was attached fell. After undergoing a restoration process of the different pieces composing it, the ensemble was reinstalled 30 metres lower than its original location.

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