First thing in the morning, the statue of Cáceres par excellence looked like it had been put on a float. "Without coronavirus we would have thought it was a hooliganism by a group leaving Albatros, but don't worry, Hernán Cortés is safe ," warned a resident of the central avenue.
And so it is, minutes later, Ampparito (Madrid, 1991), whose real name is Ignacio Nevado , explains that it is a performance entitled 'Boya' that forms part of the Cáceres Abierto exhibition, which officially opens this Thursday.
The objective of this artist who, after finishing his studies in Fine Arts, went to live in London, is always to create confusion. And that is what he has achieved in the city. His work has two dimensions: a pictorial one, with large murals of oversized everyday objects, like the Windows folder he painted in the St. Petersburg Museum of Street Art, and another, let's say sculptural, that deforms everyday elements to the point of making them strange.
So that the conqueror of Mexico has floated like a warrior sailing the seas in search of tomato and chocolate , products that he brought to Spain when he arrived in the New World.
'Cáceres Abierto', developed by the General Secretariat of Culture of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Junta de Extremadura, will feature a long list of artists who join the name of Ampparito such as Lara Almarcegui, Genín Andrada, Rorro Berjano , Carla Boserman, Beatriz Castela, Jorge Gil, Concha Jerez, José Iges, Left Hand Rotation, Nacho Lobato, Mª Dolores Plasencia, Ruth Morán, PSJM, Avelino Sala, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Pablo Valbuena, Elo Vega / Rogelio López Cuenca, Koke Vega, Making DOC and Niño de Elche / Miguel Álvarez / Emilio Pascual .
The Cáceres monument is dedicated to this conqueror born in Medellin in Extremadura, who held the title of Governor and Captain General of New Spain. It was made by Enrique Pérez Comendador in 1986 and is located in the square of the same name. It is made of bronze.
He has made a similar creation with Nezahualcóyotl, a statue located on Isabel de Moctezuma avenue in homage to the monarch (tlatoani) of the city-state of Texcoco in Mexico.
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