ORIOL RIUS plastic artist - Barcelona
The Catalan identity is embodied in the four large columns that compose this cor-ten steel sculpture. These are raised proud and firm, like the Catalan identity, yet slightly wavy and turbulent, indicating the multiple difficulties that the Catalan nation and has had and still has to face.
The democratic and renovating values of the Second Republic are represented by the color range of the three circles that are interspersed among the four large steel columns, following the colors of the republican flag: red, yellow and purple.
Freedom,
equality and fraternity – the paradigmatic values of the French
Revolution – are subliminally represented by the trilogy of glass
rings.
The Republic is located in Republic Square in the town
of Masnou (Barcelona).
I want to thank the Mayor of Masnou Eduard Gisbert and Deputy Mayor for Planning, Enric Folch, the trust they placed on my project. I also am grateful to Jaume Vidal (of Vidal Metal·lúrgics of Esparreguera) and his workers, who made the effort to finish the work for Republic’s Day.
