Spain put Poseidon where he actually belongs 🌊🔱
Neptuno de Melenara stands off Melenara Beach in Telde, Gran Canaria, a 4.2-meter bronze by Luis Arencibia unveiled in 2001. Perched on a rock at the Atlantic’s edge, it looks less like a statue by the water and more like the sea decided to keep one of its own.
That’s why it lands so differently from most monumental public art. The coastline, the black volcanic sand, and the weather do part of the sculpting every day.
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