Tutelares

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Tutelares is a combination of sculptures that can be found in the north of Chile about 25 kilometers south of Arica near the Panamericana at the junction of the road to Ticnamar.

The first section was built in 1997. The tutelares consist of several individual sculptures, each of which is related to one another. The large sculptures are between eight and nine meters high and show abstract human figures. The first two formation is dedicated to the ancestors and means a homage to the peoples of the Andes. It should symbolize cosmic forces that stand in the middle of the desert without technology and form a unity of culture and desert . In this project the connection from the past to the present to the future is created.

The second sculpture connection symbolizes the origin of the trunk. This is about the Andean cosmovision . In mythology, the indigenous people of the north have a divine origin from the sun and moon. The second group of sculptures is intended to show this connection between the sun and the moon, which is evident in the history of this region. She searches for the origin of the people of the Andean highlands and their settlement in the desert. The coexistence with the earth, the valleys and the manifestations of this time in the geoglyphs and petroglyphs and the meeting at this place is symbolized. The first of these two is 6.5 meters high and four meters wide, the second is compact, rounded in shape, two meters high and three meters in diameter. This second stage of sculptural work was established in 1999.

Both groups of sculptures were sponsored and financed by the Chilean National Fund for the Development of Art and Culture.

All of the tutelares were created and realized by the artist and professor of sculpture and ceramics at the University of Arica ( Universidad de Tarapacá ), Juan Díaz Fleming .