A walk downtown Málaga

TASK #11:
Instruction: A sculpture to be found downtown will be assigned to every pair of students. The students are to find information about it and share it with their classmates when we do the walk. They can carry some notes to do so.

Later, they are to make a little project containing the photos and the information gathered during the walk and upload it on their blogs for the teacher to see and value.

The statues chosen are the following:

Fuente de Genova. Pedro de Mena. Acteón y las ninfas. La ninfa de la caracola. Bernardo Ferrándiz. Cánovas del Castillo.  Marques de Larios. Ben Gabirol. Monolito Plaza de la Merced. Graffiti in Soho.

Acteón y las ninfas

Acteón Was, in Greek mythology, a famous hunter initiated in this art by the centaur Chiron, also a teacher of Achilles. Son of Aristeo and Autonoe in Boeotia , suffered the wrath of Artemis. The story also is told by Hyginus , Pausanias , Euripides , Calímaco and Aeschylus , among other classic authors.

Another version of the legend , Acteón boasted of being better hunter than Artemisa , so it transformed him into a deer that was devoured by his own hounds. There are parallels between the story of Actaeon and blindness of Tiresias , who lost his sight as punishment for seeing naked Athena.

Artemis , devoted to chastity, was bathing naked in the fields near the city of Orcómeno beocia woods

 when Actaeon found casually. He stopped and stared at her , fascinated by her beauty transferor . As punishment ,

 Artemis turned him into a stag by the desecration 

of seeing her nakedness and her virginal mysteries , and sent the hounds of Actaeon , 

fifty themselves to be killed . These did pieces and ate their flesh , then look for

 his master by the forest , sobbing. Then , they found the centaur Chiron , who , to comfort ,

 built a statue of her late owner. According to Ovid in The Metamorphosis .

the goddess was accompanied by his entourage of nymphs.

1. LA NINFA DE LA CARACOLA.

La Ninfa de la Caracola also known as ''la muñeca'' becuase it was located close to a building with this name. 

A nymph in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful.
The shell that the nymph is holding represent the sea, something that is very important in Malaga.
The statue was created in 1877.

 

2. BERNARDO FERRÁNDIZ.

It's a tribute to Bernardo, it represents him. It's a real person, he was born in Valencia in 1835 and died in Malaga in 1885. He was one of the most important painters in Valencia. He painted the ceilling of the Cervantes' Theatre.

Bernardo is related to Malaga because he lived 17 years here and he also is considered one of the members of Malaga school of painting. 

The statue done by Vallmitjana Agapito was inaugurated in 1913 and it is located in the park of Malaga on a pedestal made by Diego Garcia Carrera.

3. PEDRO DE MENA.

This statue is called Pedro de Mena, it represents him, a sculpter of baroque.

He born in Granada in 1628 and died in 1688 in Malaga.

His sculptures more importants are: Niño en la luna, Dolorosa, La soledad and Virguen de la sangre.

His parents were: Alonso de Mena and Juana de Medrano.

He did his sculptures in a workshop in granada.

 

4. GRAFFITI IN SOHO.

  
It's an initiative which was thought by the cityzens to renovate this place. This place was a middle-class residential zone, where has been degraded its comercial and urban part and people has created a Cultural District which is called 'Soho'. It is dynamic and modern, and it offer to the local and foreigner people a place to spend their time, know about the culture and business.

The Art Contemporary Centre is a part of this new Soho and it's one of the most popular places althought, the most important characteristic is that the art is exposed in the street and you don't have to go to a museum to see it. Some years ago, many of the bests graffiti artists started to paint on many walls and buildings. It has done this place more personality. Some of this artists are Dadi Dreucol, Faith 47, Dal East, ROA, Boa Mistura, D*Face and Obey.

 

5. Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.

This statue is an honoring to Cánovas del Castillo who born in Málaga in February, 8th of August in 1828 and died in Mondragón in 1897. 

He was a politician and Spanish historian, president of the Cabinet during most of the last quarter of the 19th century. It was one of the most influential figures of Spanish politics. 

He was a member of the Liberal Union. In 1854 he was elected deputy by Málaga for the Constituent ones and, to the fall of O'Donnell, governing civilian of Cádiz. He was the secretary of Government in 1864 and of Overseas in 1865 during the reign of Isabel II before the First Spanish Republic be proclaming. After the Revolution of 1868 and end of the Bourbon monarchy it took charge preparing the return of the one that would be Alfonso XII, Isabel II's son.

Cánovas died murdered on August 8th, in 1897 in "El Balneario of Santa Águeda".

In 1975, Málaga's town hall raised a monument in honoring to this politician of Málaga and in 2009 was installed a plate in his honor.

The monument was made by the sculptor Jesús Martínez Labrador, who is from Antequera. 
It's located in Cánovas del Castillo Avenue and it's and the entrance of Málaga's Park because he was one of the promoter of this construction.

It was open in 1975 such a tribute to him, but before this date, the monument stayed almost a year enclosed in a storehouse due to the newspaper said it wasn't the time to open a monument of someone that restored the monarchy, when a dictatorship was controlling the country. 

The monument has a strange face because the sculptor was inspired by a caricature.