Floralis Genérica. Plaza de las Naciones Unidas, Buenos Aires. Argentina.
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Nicholas Tinelli / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
FC85K2File size:
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7020 x 4680 px | 59.4 x 39.6 cm | 23.4 x 15.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
28 October 2015Location:
Plaza de las Naciones Unidas, Avenida Figueroa Alcorta, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.More information:
Floralis Genérica is a sculpture made of steel and aluminum located in Plaza de las Naciones Unidas, Avenida Figueroa Alcorta, Buenos Aires, a gift to the city by the Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Catalano once said that the flower "is a synthesis of all the flowers and is both a hope that is reborn every day to open. It was created in 2002. The sculpture was designed to move, closing its petals in the evening and opening them in the morning. The sculpture is located in the center of a park of four acres of wooded boundaries, surrounded by paths that get closer and provide different perspectives of the monument, and placed above a reflecting pool, which apart from fulfilling its aesthetic function, protects it. It represents a large flower made of stainless steel with aluminum skeleton and reinforced concrete, which looks at the sky, extending to its six petals. It weighs eighteen tons and is 23 meters high. According to Eduardo Catalano, the author, Floralis "means belonging to the flora and therefore the flowers", and Genérica "from the concept of "gender" and indicates that it represents all the flowers in the world".