Photos: Sergio Betancort
The wind toy 'Fobos' is already showing off its best features in the Tahíche roundabout. From 07:00 this Thursday, the workers of the Cabildo of Lanzarote installed the sculpture of César Manrique to check during these days its stability and resistance to the wind of the area.
The president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, and the vice president Jacobo Medina visited the place junto to Santiago Hernández, personal friend and creator of the sculpture together with César Manrique of the sculpture.
The president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, stated that "talking about a wind toy is talking about our most international artist. This is a very artisanal work with which a further step is taken before the end of the centenary".
For his part, the vice president and councilor of Public Works, Jacobo Medina, recalled that "the sculpture has gone through several final phases of its restoration, in which some of the original ideas and designs of César Manrique have been recovered. In the facilities of the Cabildo's Mobile Park, the reconstruction of the mobile sculpture has been completed. Some of its elements and materials have been updated to better fit the original vision of the Lanzarote artist and provide greater durability and reliability to the mobile sculpture".
María Dolores Corujo congratulated the workers of the Mobile Park for having "put their heart" into the restoration of the work and for their "immense love for detail and respect for César's work".
In detail.- DSince 2016, the date on which the sculpture was removed due to its significant deterioration, workers from the Mobile Park of the Cabildo of Lanzarote have been working meticulously to build this Wind Toy, faithfully following the parameters of the original Manrique work.
The welders, Roberto Barrios, Marcial González, Coco Padrón and Paco Melián, as well as the mechanic Pedro Barrios have worked meticulously, under the guidelines of the technicians of the Public Works Area, José Onieva and Aglaé Pino. Likewise, the invaluable collaboration of Santiago Hernández, collaborator of César Manrique, has also been counted on.
The current sculpture, which has recovered some of the original ideas and designs of César Manrique, has a height of 13.30 meters and has been built with more than 3,300 kilos of stainless steel with a polished finish, while the old one was made of galvanized steel painted gray.
