Solidarity

Pepe Noja, 1999. Stainless steel.
Pure knotted cylinder shapes. This is how this sculpture is explained from the most material point of view, which has the vocation of a symbol. Made of stainless steel, it weighs three and a half tons and is made up of four cylindrical shapes like links that intertwine. A chain that means union, but also freedom, because the links in that chain are open, they do not lose their independence, their formal autonomy. At Solidaridad, stainless steel, hard against the elements, becomes soft and moldable, with a glossy finish. Solidarity seems to retain the light and expel it to the four winds.