Al Libro - Madrid, España - Official Local Tourism Attractions on Waymarking.com

[ES] “Este monumento al libro y sus creadores fue promovido por los libreros españoles para ser colocado en el Paseo de Recoletos, que todos los años acoge las tradicionales Ferias del Libro Antiguo y de Ocasión, ante la Biblioteca Nacional, encargándose la parte escultórica al artista lucense Manuel García Vázquez, que firma como Buciños por su localidad natal, mientras que el pedestal corrió a cargo del arquitecto Joaquín Roldán Pascual; inaugurándose el Día del Libro de 1984. Con motivo de las obras de la actuación El Prado- Recoletos, se desmontó la escultura que ha sido repuesta en similar posición.

Descripción

Este grupo escultórico ofrece una unidad inusual entre su pedestal monolítico de granito, en forma de prisma quebrado, y la escultura que se asienta en él. El primero presenta en su frente derecho un corte oblicuo que acoge la inscripción LOS LIBREROS / ESPAÑOLES / AL / LIBRO / Y / SUS CREADORES escrita con letras de bronce; mientras que en su mitad izquierda se sienta una pareja muy estilizada de niños de ambos sexos, con los pies colgando, recostados hacia atrás y leyendo un libro que sostienen entre ambos, donde figura grabada la firma del escultor BUCIÑOS / 4 1984.”

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[EN] “This monument to books and their creators was promoted by Spanish booksellers to be placed on Paseo de Recoletos, which hosts the traditional Old and Used Book Fairs every year, in front of the National Library. The sculpture was commissioned by the Lugo artist Manuel García Vázquez, who signs his name as Buciños after his hometown, while the pedestal was designed by the architect Joaquín Roldán Pascual. It was inaugurated on World Book Day in 1984. During the construction of the El Prado-Recoletos project, the sculpture was dismantled and replaced in a similar position.

Description

This sculptural group offers an unusual unity between its monolithic granite pedestal, in the shape of a broken prism, and the sculpture that sits on it. The first has an oblique cut on its right front that contains the inscription LOS LIBREROS / ESPAÑOLES / AL / LIBRO / Y / SUS CREADORES written in bronze letters; while on its left half sits a highly stylized couple of children of both sexes, with their feet dangling, leaning back and reading a book that they hold between them, where the sculptor's signature BUCIÑOS / 4 1984 is engraved.”

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