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After Durer

2006 / Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

In 1525 Albrecht Durer proposed a monument to commemorate and the numerous peasant revolts that were occurring throughout the German countryside. 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 comprised of farm related items with a peasant sitting atop of it stabbed by a sword piercing his back.

In March of 2006 Sanchez-Calderon 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 Dana 1980-2007

After Durer was first exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami for “Metro Pictures” curated by Silvia Carmen-Kubinas in 2006 when it was still made of cast plaster. After Durer was cast in bronze in 2020 and exhibited at the David Castillo gallery in 2022.
Images during the production of “After Durer” in cast plaster of Dana.
The sculpture in bronze in 2020, having destroyed the plaster cast to do so
The exhibition of “After Durer” at the David Castillo gallery in Miami, 2022
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