Photos: Carlos A. Schwartz – Efraín Pintos

Homenaje a Millares (Homage to Millares)

“In his “Homage to Millares” (stainless steel, 1972), Claude Viseux applies the technical possibilities of industry with mobile and noise effects, enriching not only the sculpture in its historical stop as a radiant object in contemplation, but also subjecting it to a voluntary movement with sound effects. It is therefore a work of participation, a work that needs the collaboration of humans.“

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.

“From France came the ingenious mobile Homage to Millares, in stainless steel, the work of Claude Viseux, a constructivist conception of vigorous mechanicism, apparently distanced from Millares’s destructive and expressionist message.”

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