''El Vigilante'' () is an outdoor ''
cire perdue
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bronze sculpture
Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...
installed along
Mexican Federal Highway 85D
Carretera Federal 85D is the designation for toll highways (''List of Mexican autopistas, autopistas'') paralleling Federal Highway 85. Two roads are designated Highway 85D, one from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, to Monterrey, Nuevo León, known as ...
("México–Pachuca" Highway), in the limits of
Ecatepec de Morelos
Ecatepec (), officially Ecatepec de Morelos, is a municipality in the central Mexican state of Mexico, and is situated in the north part of the greater Mexico City urban area. The municipal seat is San Cristóbal Ecatepec.
The city of Ecatepec i ...
and
Tlalnepantla de Baz
Tlalnepantla de Baz is one of 125 municipalities of the state of Mexico, north of Mexico City. The municipal seat and largest city in the municipality is the city of Tlalnepantla. ''Tlalnepantla'' comes from the Náhuatl words ''tlalli'' (land) ...
, in the
State of Mexico
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.
Description and history
The sculpture was designed by
Jorge Marín
Jorge Marín (born September 22, 1963) is a Mexican sculptor and painter. He has been an active figure in the contemporary art world for the last 25 years. He began to sculpt ceramic in the early 1980s. Bronze has been his preferred material for ...
and it was inaugurated on 18 March 2016 by
Enrique Peña Nieto
Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...
, the president of Mexico from 2012 to 2018 during the inauguration of the adjacent vehicular bridge.
It is a high artwork that features a crouched angel placed on a high concrete plinth. Even though its basement also functions as an
observation deck
An observation deck, observation platform, or viewing platform is an elevated sightseeing platform usually situated upon a tall architectural structure, such as a skyscraper or observation tower. Observation decks are sometimes enclosed ...
,
as of January 2020 there were no bridges or access roads that directly connect to it. The sculpture weighs .
Marín said he designed the sculpture in a contemporary manner, featuring a young man with tattoos and piercings that wears a bird mask to represent
Ehecatl
Ehecatl ( nci-IPA, Ehēcatl, eʔˈeːkatɬ, ) is a pre-Columbian deity associated with the wind, who features in Aztec mythology and the mythologies of other cultures from the central Mexico region of Mesoamerica. He is most usually interpreted as ...
, a deity associated with the wind.
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See also
* '' El Ángel de la Seguridad Social'', a similar sculpture by Marín
References
External links
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2016 establishments in Mexico
2016 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Mexico
Ecatepec de Morelos
Outdoor sculptures in the State of Mexico
Sculptures of angels
Statues in Mexico
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