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La Recolección de la Aceituna

The Olive Harvest

Victor Navarro Guedes
2009

Santa Lucía de Tirajana / La Recolección de la Aceituna

Description

Sculpture group showing a man on a ladder harvesting olives from a (real) olive tree with a boy carrying a basket with the harvested olives, further woman and a girl pressing the olives for the oil, and a donkey.

Santa Lucía de Tirajana - La Recolección de la Aceituna

Inscription(s)

"LA RECOLECCIÓN DE LA ACEITUNA"
Con este conjunto escultórico, el Ayuntamiento de Santa Lucía
pretende honrar y perpetuar la tradición Olivarera que existe
en la cuenca de Tirajana
Este obra fue inaugurada siendo Alcalde del Ayuntamiento de
Santa Lucía Don Silverio Matos Pérez.

En Santa Lucía de Tirajana, a 30 de mayo de 2009

"OLIVE HARVEST"
With this sculpture, the Municipality of Santa Lucia
intended to honor and perpetuate the tradition of olive oil production
in the caldera of Tirajana
This work was inaugurated being Mayor of the Municipality of
Santa Lucia Don Silverio Matos Pérez.

Santa Lucía de Tirajana, 30 May 2009

Signature

VNGictor

Santa Lucía de Tirajana - La Recolección de la Aceituna

Sculptor

Victor Navarro Guedes (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1974), Spanish-Canarian sculptor from Santa Lucía de Tirajana (Biography).

Sources & Information

Esculturas en Gran Canaria, Santa Lucía.

Location (N 27°54'25" - W 15°32'19")

Item Code: esca183; Photograph: 8 January 2015
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