Climbing Sculpture

Pablo Maojo, 1992. Steel and Paint.Escalada is made up of several vertical pieces of steel sheet, welded together and from the steel company Aceralia. Its link with the Sports Pavilion goes far beyond mere symbolism. Those eleven meters of height that the visitor “climbs” with his eyes correspond to the height of the interior pillars of the building, and the red color of the monolith is identical to that of the stands of the central track. Escalada is like a great mountain where the light is reflected and breaks into a thousand flashes. One of its sides is carved with sawteeth, handholds towards the summit, marks on the long ascent…