“Gustavo Torner opens his “Labyrinth. Homage to Borges” in concrete. High white walls. It is another penetrable outside Mendiburu’s conception. Torner does not work with solitude, but with communication. His “Labyrinth” is based on the function of order, on linear purity, on a state of grace. It could also be a passage of provisional love.”
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.
“One of the most suggestive works by Gustavo Torner (Cuenca, 1925), founder together with Zóbel and Rueda of the Museum of Abstract Art in the Casas Colgadas by the Huécar River, is his immaculate Labyrinth: Homage to Borges, which stands in the Santa Cruz Municipal Park, with high concrete screens that invite us to go through them as a game and at the same time an interrogation.”
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
“Scattered around the Park or in nearby areas, several replicas of the traditional monument were erected. Among them were several “homages”: Homage to Millares, by Claude Viseux, Homage to the Canary Islands, by Pablo Serrano, Homage to Pascal, by Gottfried Honegger, Homage to Borges, by Gustavo Torner, and Homage to Gaudí, by Eduardo Paolozzi, mentioned above. In their different modalities, all these tributes have a clear intention to put an end to the venerability of the traditional commemorative monument. Thus, all of them renounce the use of the pedestal (they start directly from the ground), abandon the figurative vocabulary (although not necessarily the symbolic language), reject the use of noble materials (with the exception of Viseux, all are built in concrete) and use procedures which are more typical of architecture or engineering than sculpture. In some cases, not only procedures, but also architectural themes are used, such as the labyrinth. Torner’s Homage to Borges is, in fact, a labyrinthine route built with white walls of concrete angles.
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