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TENERIFE: SCULPTURES IN THE STREET

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Saturday March 6 2010
AN OUTDOOR exhibition of seven steel sculptures opened in Tenerife's capital Santa Cruz on Thursday March 4.
Story and pictures by JAMES TWEEDIE
The seven works on display in the central Plaza del Príncipe were made by sculptor Julio Nieto over each of the past seven years.
They include Marea (tide, pictured right), a figure of a fisher-woman formed of fish.
Enamorado de Acero (In Love With Steel) and ¿Por Que Me Echaron Del Cielo? (Why Have They Thrown Me From Heaven?) combine perishable roses and apples with their enduring iron structures.
The metal statues will be on display until Friday March 19.
Click on the images to view them at full size.
La Llamada (The Call) 


Viajero (Voyager)


Enamorado de Acero (In Love With Steel)


¿Por Que Me Echaron Del Cielo? (Why Have They Thrown Me From Heaven?)


¿Y Alicia...? (And Alice...?)


Icaro Salvado (Icarus Saved)

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