Recycled Metal Catrina Sculpture

This rare beauty is from Mexico’s Armando Ramirez, who creates eco-friendly artworks from recycled auto parts and scrap metal. The shapely catrina figurine is crafted from connecting rods, timing chain, expanded metal and other scrap. A dramatic picture hat and long dangly earrings complete her ensemble.

The original ‘La Calavera Catrina’ was a zinc etching created by the artist Jos Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1910. Posada created the character, a female skeleton with an elegant hat, as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives who aspired to European style and denied their own heritage. The catrina has since become an emblem of Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebration and a popular folk art subject.

Details

• Recycled auto parts, scrap metal
• 2.32 kg
• 70 cm H x 20 cm W x 20 cm D

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