{"id":2522,"date":"2012-05-26T22:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T22:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/05\/26\/enrique-martinez-celaya-at-the-hermitage-museum\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:51:06","slug":"enrique-martinez-celaya-at-the-hermitage-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/enrique-martinez-celaya-at-the-hermitage-museum","title":{"rendered":"Enrique Mart\u00ednez Celaya at the Hermitage Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermitagemuseum.org\/html_En\/index.html\">State Hermitage Museum<\/a> in St. Petersburg, Russia will be installing a monumental sculpture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/celaya_bio.html\">Enrique Mart\u00ednez Celaya<\/a> titled <em>Tower of Snow<\/em>, 2012. Rising fifteen-feet tall, the bronze sculpture depicts a boy on crutches, burdened by a house strapped to his back. As the artists describes,&nbsp;\"<em>The Tower of Snow<\/em> represents a journey, and hope of returning or finding a new location for that \u2018home.\u2019 This home is, both, metaphoric and physical: place to become as well as a place to be. It might be expected that since I am an exile these questions examine that condition, and I am sure there is some of it in the work. However, the displacement that concerns me most is the shift from the glow the world had at moments during childhood to the moral opaqueness and disenchantment characteristic of contemporary experience. The light that once made the world mysterious, alive, and interconnected, was engulfed at some point along the way by the darkness of cynicism and over-familiarity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-29.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-29.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-29-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a photo illustrating <em>Tower of Snow&nbsp;<\/em>in progress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-28.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-28.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-28-300x230.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about Enrique\u2019s work, please visit his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/celaya_bio.html\">profile <\/a>on our website.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia will be installing a monumental sculpture by Enrique Mart\u00ednez Celaya titled Tower of Snow, 2012. 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