Solidarity

Pepe Noja, 1999. Stainless steel.
Pure forms of knotted cylinders. This is how this sculpture that has the vocation of a symbol is explained from the most material point of view. 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 of that chain are open, they do not lose their independence, their formal autonomy. In Solidaridad, stainless steel, hard in the face of the weather, becomes soft and moldable, with a shiny finish. Solidaridad seems to retain light and expel it to the four winds.