Photos: Carlos A. Schwartz – Efraín Pintos

Penetrable

“Jesús Soto’s penetrable, with its thousands of nylon threads, has an attractive significance and can be an amusement, but it presents a communicative intention with society and a new active conception of the work of art.”

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 Ibero-American contribution was substantial and of high quality, and included some of the leading names of this period in art. From Venezuela, an internationally renowned creator, Jesús Soto, with his metallic shrine and hanging plastic cords which, under the title Penetrable, incites the experience of kinetic sensations, a tendency of which he is a consummate provocateur.”

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

“Venezuelan Jesús R. Soto (b. 1923), with his playful Penetrable, in line with his kinetic-luminescent research”

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

“In this sense, the proposals of Soto and Paolozzi stand out. The former in the form of a Penetrable made up of an infinite number of transparent cords (a total of 35 km of nylon cord) hanging from an iron structure and giving the sensation of a constant rain that invites you to take a walk.”

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

“The location was a controversial issue at the 1973 Symposium, but it should be remembered that the organisers replied that it was a provisional one. I do not think that the location of the ones at the García Sanabria Park can be discussed in essence, even if some of them serve functions not foreseen by their creators, because they can get dirty and deteriorated. As a civic attitude cannot be expected from all the inhabitants of any city, it was logical, for example, that Soto’s magnificent Penetrable would disappear and that other changes would have to be made. The Park, however, constitutes a unitary space open inside, and the problems of the sculptures it houses, apart from safety and hygiene, can be solved.”

Corredor Matheos, J. (1996). Algunas reflexiones sobre la exposición de Escultura en la Calle. En A. Carnero, D. Duque, & C. Schwartz, Iª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en La Calle (págs. 109-116). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. Área de Cultura. ISBN: 84-87340-63-6