Photos: Carlos A. Schwartz – Efraín Pintos

Homenaje a Gaudí (Homage to Gaudí)

“Eduardo Paolozzi’s work –known from the agonising denunciation of the man-machine to pop reportage– is situated in the use of sculpture to serve the Game, with the construction of modules in the form of a wall for children to climb.”

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.

“The youngest of the British sculptors, Eduardo Paolozzi, born in 1924, has left in the Municipal Park his great concrete work entitled Homenaje a Gaudí (Homage to Gaudí), a complex macla of hexagonal prisms of tectonic assemblage.”

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

“European sculptors are reduced to French Claude Viseux (…), British Eduardo Paolozzi (b. 1924), with his Homage to Gaudí (1973), modular and constructive as well as disturbing and playful, and Italian Arnaldo Pomodoro”

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

“Another characteristic shared by several of the sculptors was the desire to transform the imposing nature of the traditional monument into more participatory and playful proposals. In this sense, the proposals of Soto and Paolozzi stand out (…) Paolozzi’s in the form of a serpentine wall resolved by means of a conjunction of hexagonal modules suitable for children to climb.”

Fernández Lomana, M.A. (1996). De la conmemoración al homenaje. En A. Carnero, D. Duque, & C. Schwartz, Iª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en La Calle (págs. 87-108). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. Área de Cultura. ISBN: 84-87340-63-6