Socorristas de Biarritz X-X

Dir.-Generaal Willemspark
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8301 Knokke-Heist

About the artwork

This four-metre-tall bronze work depicts two figures sitting on a lifeguard chair. The piece weighs 570 kg and stands on a platform in Dir. Gen. Willemspark, near the Duinbergen seafront. Aurora Cañero's sculptures are best known for their dream-like and curious quality. The use of the pedestal as a rhetorical element of the work is particularly significant.

About the artist

Aurora Cañero was born in Spain in 1940. As a sculptor, she aims to embody mystery in her rigorous works and to give emotions an expressive channel through a mixture of strange elements and a fine sense of humour.