Photo: Carlos A. Schwartz – Efraín Pintos

Caja de Música I (Music Box I)

Agustín Cárdenas raises on a pedestal his marble piece, from 1968, entitled “Caja de música I” (Music Box I). A piece of great nobility, created for contemplation and rest, in the Brancusian manner, with serenity and love for the material. A work with a perforated central circle, perhaps to interact with the wind.

Westerdahl, E. (1973). La 1ª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en la calle, en Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme, ISSN 1133-8857, Nº. 99. Número dedicado a los parques naturales, 47-50.

And one single Cuban name, Agustín Cárdenas (1927), the only statuary among those present at the Tenerife Exhibition to compete with a work carved in marble – Caja de Música I (Music Box I). He lives in Paris, from where he sent this hermetic loudspeaker with convex faces, which did not remain in the city.

Hernández Perera, J. (1996). Dos décadas de Esculturas en la Calle. En A. Carnero, D. Duque, & C. Schwartz, Iª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en La Calle (págs. 25-54). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. Área de Cultura. ISBN: 84-87340-63-6

“and Cuban Agustín Cárdenas (b. 1926) and his Caja de música I (Music Box I) (1968) showed himself to be a brilliant heir to Brancusi, Arp and Stahly, extracting lyrical impulses of great beauty from nature.

Pérez Reyes, C. (1996). Reflexión sobre lo visto y lo vivido. En A. Carnero, D. Duque, & C. Schwartz, Iª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en La Calle (págs. 65-76). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. Área de Cultura. ISBN: 84-87340-63-6