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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria

Calle Venegas
(Plaza Tomá's Bosch y Sastre)

Otomana

Ottoman (Woman-Pouf)

Leopoldo Emperador
2008

Description

The title attempts to merge the two meanings of the word 'otomana': a Turkish woman and a couch. "The sculpture is drawing in space, empty spaces, occupied spaces," explained the sculptor..

Sculptor

Leopoldo Emperador Altzola (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1954), Spanish-Canarian sculptor (Website).

Sources & Information

Esculturas en Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2 P.
La Estrella que nos guia, Esculturas de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2a parte).
Juan Álvarez Lasso, Bustos, esculturas y monumentos en la ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Primera parte (2011) (on-line), p. 447-448.

Locatie (N 28°6'43" - W 15°25'5") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca153; Photograph: 7 January 2015
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