Photos: Carlos A. Schwartz – Efraín Pintos

Sin Título (Untitled)

Author
Francisco Sobrino
Edition
I Exhibition (1973-74)
Year
1973
Additional information
On display, Plaza de la República Dominicana
Material
Painted iron

“Francisco Sobrino raises two large mobiles, each with four red spheres. He enters into the visual searches and experiences of kinetic art, into the animation of space. He is the sculptor of the new cities, the future animator of urban centres.”

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 tallest of all the pieces installed in the city in 1973, the painted-iron Móvil (Mobile) by Francisco Sobrino (Guadalajara, 1932), installed at the intersection of the Rambla and Avenida de Bélgica, raises the epipalaeolithic schematism of the Levantine cave paintings to a colossal scale, within a linear sharpness that swings in an optic-kinetic ballet.”

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