The name Karrvaz didn't sound familiar at first glance. I visited this park in Valencia last Monday and then I spotted these huge sculptures, with his signature. Of course, later I checked this name and it turned out that Lucas Karrvaz is the acronym for José Lucas Carrión Vázquez, a sculptor from the Valencian community born in 1951. He mainly works with iron, and especially scrap iron and recycled materials. I also realized that I already saw one of his very cool works last year, an iron piano that I showed in this post.
So, the first sculpture I saw was a musician — a Left-handed Conductor, as the inscription stated El director zurdo.
Indeed - he carries the baton in his left hand.
I am not sure about the orchestral conductors, but I know a few left-handed pianists. One of them is my very good friend. It is an advantage actually, as normally our left hand is weaker but while you play the piano you need the same independence and agility in your both hands.
I hope that this sculpture was not crying because of the left-handed conductor. He represents "Crying", El llanto. The sun was quite strong and the sculptures thin, so I hope you can see him well. As far as I can see, he is kneeling and covering his face with his hands.
Another one who had some difficult moments was this lady, The Thinker - Pensadora.
This part of the park was full of these sculptures. I was sorry to see that some of them disappeared, as there was just the concrete base left with the name of the artwork but without the sculpture. A weird thing, a thought no one would damage art in a city like Valencia...
One of my favourite sculptures was this book, with the name Escritura - Writing.
Actually, it had written details in it - kind of hieroglyphs. If you are fluent in hieroglyphs, please translate some lines of what the iron book was telling us. 😁
Let's continue our little walk with these iron guys. They were working hard in that sun...
These two set the first fire. If it was not warm enough. 😂
After this small collection of traditional crafts from the past, I am also bringing a few iron animals. Here they come. I didn't check the names of the next two sculptures, but I am sure they would be called deer and bull. 😁
The last one in this post is a huge sculpture, indeed a very tall one called The Inclemencies. There were several other sculptures around it... I just forgot to take a separate photo of them. 😅
Sun - but an unmerciful one? I didn't notice it that way, but the author of the sculpture knows better what he wanted to represent with it. ;)
