Jorge Jiménez Deredia: La Ruta de la Paz

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Some days ago I have visited this beautiful art expò
Alcuni giorni fa ho visitato questa bella mostra

- La Ruta de la Paz
Project devised by Costa Rican sculptor Jiménez Deredia involving the installation of nine major groups of sculpture in nine countries on the American continent, stretching from Canada to Tierra del Fuego via the United States, Mexico, Yucatan, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru and Chile - an ideal thread stretching across the Americas, linking peoples and legends, myths and traditions, lives and symbols. the artist has created a path signposted by monumental sculptural complexes conceived as spaces for meditation. The idea for the project was spawned by the pre-Colombian stone spheres built by the ancient Boruca Indians in Costa Rica approximately 2000 years ago.
The symbology enshrined in the sphere describes the transmutation of matter, while the circle is a being seeking his true self. These elements point to a unitary and global view of existence and of the universe, harking back to the ancestral values that are a deeply rooted in every man. What Deredia has done is to analyze and reinterpret a symbol that predominates in many ancient pre-Colombian cultures, forging a link between the spherical elements of each of the nine sculpture groups and the main constellations in the countries involved by aligning the spheres with the stars.
In order to understand the origins of the project, it is necessary to go back to 1963. Deredia was nine years old when he saw a group of pre-Columbian spheres for the first time in the National Museum of San José, capital of Costa Rica: stone artefacts built by the ancient Boruca Indians about two thousand years ago. Since that moment, he has never stopped asking himself why they were created. Struck deeply by the symbolic value of those mysterious objects, the artist began to study the use and significance given, by other populations of that land, to the spherical element and theme of circularity: a recurrent use of symbology between distant populations even as much as thousands of kilometres apart. From his interest and study, the idea was born of revivifying an ancient symbol shared by millions of women and men over the course of history. The nine structures in the project are characterised by the revival of elements peculiar to various civilisations and of marble spheres aligned with the constellations of each country which in turn host its own monument. In such a way a harmonic whole is created of sites where each single element can emanate the strength and value of the whole.
http://www.deredia.com/DEREDIA_GALLERY.htm

- La Ruta de la Paz
Progetto ideato dallo scultore costaricano Jiménez Deredia, che prevede nove grandi complessi scultorei in altrettanti Paesi del continente americano: dal Canada alla Terra del Fuoco, passando per gli Stati Uniti, il Messico, lo Yucatan, il Costa Rica, la Colombia, il Perù ed il Cile. Lungo le Americhe si snoderà un ideale filo rosso, legame di popoli e leggende, miti e tradizioni, vita e simboli, l'artista crea un percorso segnato da monumentali complessi scultorei concepiti come spazi di meditazione. Il progetto trae origine dalle sfere precolombiane in pietra, costruite dagli antichi indiani Boruca nel Costa Rica circa 2000 anni fa.
La simbologia legata alla sfera descrive la trasmutazione della materia, e il cerchio l'essere alla ricerca di se stesso. Questi elementi indicano una concezione unitaria e globale dell'esistenza e dell'universo, e si richiamano a valori ancestrali insiti in ogni uomo.
Deredia ha analizzato e reinterpretato un simbolo predominante in molte antiche culture precolombiane, creando una connessione tra gli elementi sferici di ognuno dei nove complessi scultorei e le principali costellazioni dei Paesi interessati, anche attraverso l'allineamento delle sfere con le stelle. Per comprendere le origini del progetto, occorre risalire al 1963. Deredia ha nove anni, quando per la prima volta vede, nel Museo Nazionale di San José, la capitale del Costa Rica, un gruppo di sfere precolombiane: manufatti in pietra costruiti circa duemila anni fa dagli antichi indiani Boruca. Da quel momento, non smette di domandarsi il perché della loro creazione. Profondamente colpito dal valore simbolico di quegli oggetti misteriosi, l'artista inizia a studiare l'uso e il significato attribuito da altri popoli della terra all'elemento sferico e al tema della circolarità, simbologia ricorrente in popolazioni distanti anche migliaia di chilometri tra loro. Da questo interesse e da questo studio, nasce l'idea di rivivificare un simbolo antico, condiviso da milioni di donne e uomini nel corso della storia. Le nove strutture del progetto sono caratterizzate dalla rivisitazione di elementi peculiari di diverse civiltà e da sfere in marmo allineate con le costellazioni dei paesi di volta in volta protagonisti del monumento, così da creare un insieme armonico di luoghi in cui ogni singolo elemento possa emanare la forza ed il valore dell'insieme.
http://www.deredia.com/DEREDIA_GALLERY.htm

- Jorge Jiménez Deredia
http://www.deredia.com/

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The idea for the project was spawned by the pre-Colombian stone spheres built by the ancient Boruca Indians in Costa Rica approximately 2000 years ago.
The symbology enshrined in the sphere describes the transmutation of matter, while the circle is a being seeking his true self.

Yeah well... the fact of the matter is that nobody knows who really created those spheres, or how long ago. It is one of the greatest mysteries in South America, bigger than the Nazca lines, perhaps bigger than Tiwanaku.

It is an interesting project, though.

PS: Hey, and he's going to place one of his sculptures in Tlalnepantla —that's not far from where I live :-D

PPS: It is also interesting to note, that his intended sculpture for Yucatán looks a lot like the Mayan Chac-Mool —only that, instead of a sphere, the Chac-Mool was intended to hold a freshly-removed human heart ;-)

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