• Abstract
• Avenida Constitucion
• On display

Mexican sculptor Carlos Monge is the author of these two horns that twist towards the sky, created in 2006 and outside of the Symposium. Their surface, far from being polished and homogeneous, is rough, coarse and uneven. By the way they twist and the texture the artist has given them, they could represent a goat's horns, in homage to one of the most characteristic animals of the Majorero landscape. Although it is also a work that lends itself to more mystical interpretations, since the meanings that humanity has given to horns are as diverse as they are ancient, and certainly go far beyond their character as a symbol of marital infidelity: horned helmets, in art and history, as a reflection of power and leadership; the horned hand, as a defense mechanism against supernatural powers, a sign of devotion to Satan, or a symbol of taste for rock and heavy metal, depending on which tradition; horned gods, from different dogmas and mythologies, as a representation of fertility and nature... Even Moses, the biblical patriarch, has been represented with horns in all kinds of artistic works, which has provoked a debate, still open, about the meaning of the antlers. Horns are a constant symbol in the history of humanity and, although Monge has left here, in the Majorero capital, his own perception of them, the interpretation given to them remains in the hands of the spectators, free to decide what meaning they give them, what they see and what they attribute to them.