The sculptor made this work as volunteers, including statements of support collected through email, and will look for funding for smelting.
5.diciembre.2011.
Lorca's mayor, Francisco Jodar, this morning the sculpture "Consuelo" who designed the artist Antonio Lopez Soler Lorca gift for the city Lorca as a tribute to the victims of earthquakes.
Jodar explained that "it is a sculpture of a six feet tall in bronze representing not only the catastrophe suffered by the town of Lorca and its neighbors, but above all a meeting of the feelings arising out of this fact and as a tribute to hope, solidarity, integrity and brotherhood. "
"It's a project that does not cost you absolutely nothing to Lorca, as the sculptor makes this entirely altruistic gesture, and working in the search for private sponsors to bear the cost of smelting, transportation and installation," added the mayor .
Antonio Lopez Soler explained that "in addition, not only must we speak of a sculpture as such, but it is an integral art project. And it will establish a process of open participation in the country for people to send us anonymous Through his words of support, encouragement and hope, that will be engraved on the sculpture to be erected as a common element among all people who believe in Lorca, and a clear sign that the unanimous support Lorca may be lifted. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca