With a huge monument of ten tons bronze, artist Andres Zerneri seeks honor and "make visible" the native peoples of Latin unredeemed. The impressive work of ten meters take the form of a female body, the native women. But the mission is not complete until replace the statue of Julio Argentino Roca Sur Diagonal anchored in the center of the City of Buenos Aires. By Natalia Arenas Stock Federico
Moscoso Feulliade
Buenos Aires, March 16 (NAN Agency, 2010) .- would like to contribute to the famous bit. But in this case, in practical terms and literals, to collaborate the Monument to the Indigenous Peoples that we need to make is about 30 grams of bronze. A key. An instrument which, symbolically, would open the door to reveal a historical social reality systematically hidden, that of the true original inhabitants of America: Mapuche, Tehuelche coyas, many Aymara and other indigenous communities that are impregnated with genetically, that 61 percent of Argentina's population has a blood link with the people sons of this land.
The maker (in material terms) of the ambitious sculpture is the artist Andres Zerneri, who in 2008 conducted a similar project although smaller, and immortalized and Che Guevara on a monument located in the city of Rosario, as a result of a collection of 75 000 keys (three thousand kilos of bronze). The mentor, almost by chance, was the historian Osvaldo Bayer. "As part of the inauguration of the monument to Che, Bayer suggests it would be nice to pay tribute to the native peoples with the same system of collection of keys," says Zerneri, and stressed: "He will set the north. The suggestion was compelling enough for us to start not to collect bronze at first, but to consult with men and women of indigenous people what they thought this idea. "
Of the ten tons of bronze needed, and gathered three-thirty. "When the project began, I thought that part of the Bicentennial, and we would be finishing it. Later we were to accept the donation of bronze is the process more difficult. More even than when he was a monument to Che, because that was all the more binary, you like or do not like, "explains Zerneri, who was realizing that" there are a lot of information on indigenous peoples is not known, so the process is much slower. " But the slow pace of this trip is very positive for the artist: "It will be the most legitimate way, because when built the monument, the fact that more is known about the indigenous peoples will have been produced in 200 thousand people. "
- Why symbolizes the indigenous people with the female gender?
- In the original peoples of genres there is no struggle, because their own cultures have great respect for women. In symbolic terms, to build a monument which speaks of the peoples represented in the body of a woman is like the evolution that is happening in political terms, for the presence of women in our society. And I think a very good opportunity for two reasons: to represent the women to talk about indigenous peoples is a new way to generalize. When we say that there are colleagues and peers, to generalize say "fellow." But in sculptural terms, to generalize is perhaps better to speak through a woman's body. Moreover, although I'm not in the gender struggle and I do not claim gender from that, I think in the history of the monuments, the few Indian sculptures that were made in the City portrayed an Indian savage, thief, mean. And in the body of a woman, a broken and with this intention, with this idea. For me, the monument is not a milestone considering the indigenous peoples to the past but what we want to talk is their future.
Once the sculpture, the committee in charge of the project will deliver to the City of Buenos Aires, under the so-called "donation fee", which means that the pass is made with a condition. In this case, and to close the circle of this original project is to replace the monument reminiscent of former President Julio Argentino Roca, Buenos Aires located in the street that bears his name.
- You say that the project will be completed when replacing a rock sculpture by native peoples: Argentina believes that society is mature enough to accept this change?
- No. Just a challenge because conditions are not ripe. And this process of bringing together each of the 30 or 20 grams it weighs a key to get to the ten tons, which would be 200 000 keys, is a process of transformation. Obviously with a sculpture not going to change the head to anyone, nor will we make a revolution, but give us the possibility of an argument, for a contribution to this process that originally called the "visibility", because for so many years were invisible . In fact, we do not care that measures ten meters, what interests us is to win over more tufts daily, even in media never speak of native peoples. Then, with the excuse to build between all of a sculpture, he goes to meet the small contribution to this maturation is the understanding that our identities are a family and in that six out of ten families have a genetic link with indigenous peoples. We understand that the sculpture is not a goal but a means, a tool for making all of this is accomplished.
Moving from talk to action
"We are confident that this is a viable, politically, because if we took 14,700 people when the monument to Che and in this work, which is 250 percent larger , attended by about 50 thousand people, no legislator is going to ignore such an expression " Zerneri risk. "It's much stronger than a coupled firms. People are putting their will but also some material, "he explains.
The artist explains, moreover, is a project of deep respect, even for those who believe in rock, for those who want to keep thinking he's a hero. " "We're not asking for the bronze monument of our sculpture, we are not asking for sawing off the head, or demolished. What we want, whether it is out there and give it to the city you request, to see what happens to people with this monument, "he says.
The spirit of the project, democratic and a symbolic target fundamental invited to take actions which often dies in words. "We're not focused today on the legislative task of removing rock. Because first we measure our own forces. When built the sculpture, bringing to Rock will be much easier, because our backs, in political terms, they will be much wider, "he says, concluding:" We want the whole act is based more on what built in what is destroyed. The whole process is also part of the action, not just speech but a concrete action, real. "
* To collaborate with the project, they can approach any of the centers detailed collection www.mujeroriginaria.com.ar . For more info, call 4862-8051 or write to zerneria@hotmail.com .
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