AFTER DURER

2006

Museum of Contemporary Art

North Miami, FL.

In 1525 Albrecht Durer proposed a monument to commemorate and recognize the numerous peasant revolts that were occurring throughout the German countryside (first image demonstrated) Durer's proposal for a monument to the peasant revolt was never realized. The only drawings that exist of Durer's unrealized monument depict a victory column composed of farm related items with a peasant atop stabbed by a sword piercing his back. In March of 2006 Mr. Sánchez-Calderón created a sculpture based on Durer’s drawings removing the farm elements yet maintaining the solitary figure of the stabbed peasant. He substituted a contemporary surrogate; a gentleman from the Overtown area named DANA and made a full-scale body cast of him. Dana passed away in February of 2009,

Dedicated to the memory of his presence on this earth: Dana 1980-2009

Curated by Silvia Carmen-Kubinas

IMAGE CREDIT:

1. 1)Albrecth Durer, 1525 - original proposal for a Peasant’s monument.
   

2. 2)Detail of Albrecth Durer, 1525 - original proposal for a Peasant’s monument.
   

3. 3)Gold covered sculpture in the Artist studio
   

4- Dana modeling w/ plaster

     mold set on and covering his legs  

5- Dana modeling

6- Dana modeling

7- Plaster cast of Dana in Durer pose

8- Plaster cast clothed

9- Sculpture installed at Museum of Contemporary Art - Photo wall mural of downtown Miami- In direct view of four of the tallest residential high-rises under construction in the United States