Photos: Carlos A. Schwartz – Efraín Pintos

Sin Título (Untitled)

“Federico Assler offers four anthropomorphic figures of unquestionable surrealist influence (concrete from 1973). Imaginary characters. Fetishes linked to the birth of the name, indeterminate as a species in the development of a mysterious typology. A work of great plastic importance.”

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.

“Another singular contribution was that of Chilean Federico Assler, born in 1929 in Santiago de Chile, which was installed and still remains in one of the radial avenues of the García Sanabria Park. Two pairs of arborescent subjects which on a human scale engage in a conversation with each other and at the same time casually surprise the passer-by with the purpose explicitly sought by the author of linking his sculptures to the place, to the light, to the landscape; in short, to the urban environment to receive the sun, the moon, the hostility or the appreciation of the inhabitants, and to grow old, mutilated or intact, in the course of the days.”

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

“Chilean Federico Assler (b. 1929) develops structures of mysterious and playful organicism”

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 piece that fits in well with the surroundings of the municipal park is that of Federico Assler. The four biomorphic figures planted at ground level function as a rare species of cactus joining the existing ones.”

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