“Under the lights and colors of the cube there is a huge stone of terrible beauty like the history it evokes: the ‘Elephant’s Foot’, the radioactive mass emanating from reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that penetrated four meters of concrete armed until reaching the subsoil as it now seems to have fallen on the bed of white stones this sculpture by Pablo Capitán del Río. A piece that speaks of the dark side of man, an evil object that can hardly be seen from a distance. “
– Antonio Javier López
You can still visit the work Monument to Disenchantment by the artist Pablo Capitán del Río at the Pompidou Center in Malaga.
The monument is in charge of exalting characters or events in the public space, proposing them as an example or collective reference. The materialization of the monument depends, therefore, on the existence of leaders and great political-social projects that are more or less exciting, more or less desirable, but, after all, capable of catching the masses.
Pablo Capitán’s piece is a reproduction of the object known as Chernobyl’s “Elephant’s Leg”, a radioactive mass that, after the explosion of reactor 4 of the nuclear plant, melted 4 meters of reinforced concrete until it appeared in one of the galleries. underground cooling.
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Our artist Pablo Capitán del Río takes part in a collective project that links the Pompidou Center in Malaga and the Russian Museum for the first time with works inspired by the Chernobyl nuclear disaste r and the Guindos ‘ chimney .
The monument is responsible for exalting characters or events in the public space, proposing them as an example or collective reference. The realization of the monument depends, therefore, on the existence of leaders and great political-social projects more or less exciting, more or less desirable, but, after all, capable of catching the masses.
Pablo Capitán’s artwork is a reproduction of the object known as Chernobyl’s “Elephant’s Foot”, a radioactive mass that, after the explosion of reactor 4 of the nuclear plant, melted 4 meters of reinforced concrete until it appeared in one of the underground cooling galleries.