Masks to protect our sculptures from the coronavirus | Radio Cartagena

Another of the monuments that has appeared with a mask is the statue of Carmen Conde. On the occasion of the first centenary of the birth of the Cartagena writer and academic Carmen Conde Abellán, he erected this bronze sculpture of the writer in the central Calle del Carmen, in front of the church of the same name.

The statue represents Carmen Conde, life-size, sitting on a bench with a book in her hands and a slight smile. On one of her fingers she wears an alliance with Antonio’s name engraved on it. Work of the Cartagena sculptor Juan José Quirós Illán, It was cast in Madrid, in the Bronze Artístico foundry.

The Replacement Soldier He has not gotten rid of his mask either, this sculpture is a tribute to the thousands of young people who came to Cartagena to perform military service in the Army and more specifically to the Infantry Regiment ‘Spain 18’.

Work of Fernando Sáenz de Elorrieta. The sculpture represents a soldier who remains seated on one of the benches on the Heroes de Cavite esplanade, wears an old Army uniform and has a bulky duffel at his feet.

And the sculpture of the ‘Replacement Sailor ‘ which intends to pay a small tribute to all those young people who, with their backpack on their shoulders, came to Cartagena to do their military service.

The full-length statue is made of bronze and is located in the Plaza de los Héroes de Cavite and Santiago de Cuba, next to the Palacio Consistorial. Its author is the Cartagena artist Jorge García Aznar. The sculpture is a young man dressed in a Marine Corps uniform, carrying a mat on his back.

Masks for our monuments, where some citizens will take it as a lack of respect and others will sketch a smile where irony and ‘the Cartagena border’Let’s go Cartagena’s sense of humor has been reflected in this coronavirus crisis, also for our most representative statues.

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