The Madrid City Council, through the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, and the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation have agreed to extend for another year, until December 2023, the installation of the sculpture 'Julia', the work of the artist Jaume Plensa, in the Discovery Gardens of the Plaza de Colón.
From the municipal government they have highlighted that this installation has received, from the first moment, "a great reception among the people of Madrid, who have incorporated Julia into the landscape and has become an iconic reference of the capital."
Since December 2018, this 12-meter-high sculpture, made with polyester resin and white marble dust, has been on display on the old pedestal in Madrid's Plaza de Colón, in the space formerly occupied by the statue of the Genoese navigator.
The sculpture was part of a joint artistic program of the Madrid City Council and the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation to create a new exhibition space in the Discovery Gardens.
This patronage initiative has made it possible for Jaume Plensa, Velázquez Award for the Arts in 2013, to exhibit a work of these characteristics in Spain for the first time. For Plensa, "his sculptures of heads with closed eyes located in public spaces represent knowledge and human emotions."
“They always have their eyes closed because what interests me is what is inside that head. As if the spectator, in front of my work, could think that it is a mirror and he reflects it, close his eyes too, try to hear all the beauty that we keep hidden within us”, the author highlighted.
