O Mouchiño - Ourense, Galicia, España - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

"The area of ??the childhood games of many Ourensens, including the author, is honored by Xaime Quessada in this sculpture, a faun riding an owl, a mouchiño , made in bronze on a stone pedestal. On the floor, small bronze plaques are reminiscent of well-known characters, protagonists of the comics that were bought in the kiosks and read and exchanged between friends in this place."

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This bronze statue of a faun on the owl playing the aulos, is on a column of four meters of marble.
They wanted to pay tribute to comic characters, some of whom have their name plaque on the floor.
The author Xaime Quessada (1937-2007) was a well-known artist from Ourense, who, among other paintings, made the ceiling of the main theater.

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: O mouchiño Figure Type: Fantasy creature Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Xaime Quessada Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 2002 Materials used: bronze and marble Location: Praza Eugenio Montes

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