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Esculturas Auditorio Alfredo Kraus

Sculptures at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium

Juan Bordes Caballero
1997

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria / Esculturas Auditorio Alfredo Kraus

Description

Around the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium are several sculptures and sculpture groups by Juan Bordes. The most prominent on the outside are:

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Esculturas Auditorio Alfredo Kraus
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On top of the auditorium: El Rascacio / The Scorpiofish, steel fish as weather vane.
At the entrance: Caboso, aluminium and steel, a small fish of the pools of Las Canteras transmuted into an anthropomorphic monster with bulging eyes and full lips, a guardian of the entrance.
On the façade facing the ocean: La Medusa, aluminium and bronze head of Medusa.

Annotation

The 'Auditorio Alfredo Kraus y Palacio de Cogresos de Canarias' was built by the Catalan architect Oscar Tusquets together with the Canarian architects Agustín Juárez and Carlos Díaz.

Artist

Juan Bordes Caballero (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1948), Spanish-Canarian sculptor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Website – Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

La Estrella que nos guia, Esculturas de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (1 P.).
Esculturas en Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1 P.
Juan Álvarez Lasso, Bustos, esculturas y monumentos en la ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Segunda parte (2011) (on-line), p. 212-221.
Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, Juan Bordes, p. 212-221.

Location (N 28°7'48" - W 15°26'56") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca198; Photograph: 9 January 2015
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