Architecture and sculpture: the space designed between the lines

Tamaraceite Park, designed by architect Hector Martínez and sculptor Juan E. Correa, generates an imposing poetic space in which air, sky and earth circulate, perfectly integrated into a cohesive space. The park, located between the Los Alisios shopping center in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a highway, seemed destined to be a kind of "no man's land" between two non-places, yet the artist has managed to create a work that is both a park and a sculpture

Corrientes is a project that generates a site: in the Tamaraceite neighborhood, not a sculpture has been "placed," but rather an intervention designed from a "sculptural" point of view that has articulated the entire territory, an exemplary reference of democratic public art, a model of fruitful dialogue between the sculptural and the architectural, a renewing paradigm in the designing of spaces of aesthetic quality which allow us to understand how to live together 

Citizens are offered a unique place where the metal elements of the sculpture rise and fall, curve and almost knot, proposing visual paths marked by angular structures, perhaps alluding to eccentric trajectories or suggesting lines of escape; at the same time in this public work is a meeting space, a common place where everything is designed, from the landscaping to the structure of the paths, to welcome others

The "circulation" is, paradoxically, a suggestion that sometimes it is worth stopping and enjoying logics other than those of consumption or speed, while the allusion to air, a constant in Juan Correa's work, is nothing more than an invocation to a contemplation of the invisible that, nevertheless, allows us to continue living. In an age of pandemic phobias, Corrientes is a kind of "utopian space" and also a place of hope