Taken from: www.nacion.com In the main entrance to the duty-free zone of El Coyol of Alajuela a monumental sculpture receives the visitors and invites them to think on the balance that should exist among human beings, technology and natural wealth.
The artwork, “Toward the future in harmony with nature” is a sculpture carried out by Costa Rican artist Édgar Zúñiga and designed especially for that space.
With 13 meters in height and 12 meters wide, the piece is a sculptural assembly comprising a base of concrete in which three iron columns raise themselves.
"The work is located in a place that promotes technological development. That is why it encloses a message on the need that technology must respect nature if we plan to benefits for humanity", explained Zúñiga, who had already placed a three-piece sculpture in the interior gardens of the industrial complex. As it was commented by the artist, the concept behind its work is supported in an integral vision of life and the universe.
The monument expresses in a poetic and abstract manner the complex plot of life and society. The base of the assembly is a concrete ramp shaped with organic forms that take you back to the land, the trees or the caves.
The gray cement one is sprinkled with some reddish tones that reinforce the earthly link. Near an end to the ramp there is located a concrete sphere of and a stainless steel bucket intertwined among itself.The ramp, which begins in the ground, displaces itself in ascending direction toward the infinite as a metaphor of the connection between the cosmos and the planet that we inhabit.
On the concrete platform rest three iron columns which have different heights and are united among themselves by small blocks that give the sensation that they float in the air.
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