Navarra como espacio cultural abierto al Camino. Los símbolos de camino, de Carlos Ciriza, en el contexto de la escultura pública jacobea [Navarre as a cultural space open to the Way: Los Símbolos del Camino, of Carlos Ciriza, in the context of the Jacobean public sculpture]

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Abstract

In addition to its profound religious and spiritual sense, the Way of Saint James conforms one of the most important artistic and cultural routes in Europe, which has in public sculpture an evident demonstration of its recuperation in the second half of the 20th Century. The project of sculptural corridor The Symbols of the Way, conceived by the artist born in Estella Carlos Ciriza for the Motorway Pamplona-Logroño, gets a particular significance inside Navarrese sculpture. This project was composed by eight monumental sculptures fully integrated in the landscape and in their cultural environment, sculptures that at the same time they reverted in the contemporary artistic patrimony of Navarre, got closely united to the semantics of the Way. Although the project...