Gabriel Garcàa Mà¡rquez received a unique tribute with glass bottles in Cartagena
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- 09 Sep 2022
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Bottle after bottle, the smiling face of Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Gabriel García Márquez , takes shape . This installation by the artist Eduardo Butrón was made in Cartagena using recycled glass bottles from garbage and rivers, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of obtaining the prestigious award.
For its preparation, Butrón used nearly 10,000 bottles of water, spirits or soft drinks, allowing the figure of García Márquez to be appreciated from above with his thick glasses and open smile. Some of the bottles were collected by residents of Henequén, a popular neighborhood in Cartagena that emerged from what used to be a landfill. Others were donated by different restaurants and bars in Cartagena, the city where Gabo lived for much of his life.
The installation has been exhibited since last Friday at the headquarters of the Government of Bolívar, located on the outskirts of the city of Cartagena.
A tribute and a message of environmental awareness
Although the tribute to Gabo is important, for Eduardo Butrón the process seems to be more relevant than the final result. The 58-year-old artist places more value on the places where the bottles were recovered, which include polluted mangroves, rivers and beaches. The entire process took a month to collect the bottles, and three days to complete the installation.
In that order of ideas, the work seeks to send a clearly environmentalist message and care for the environment. "Together we can start working to keep our environments healthy, our rivers and seas clean," Butrón told AFP. Read More...
