Article published in Bon Dia
Surely you remember the army of men and women – tennis players, lovers and captains, basically – that the sculptor Jordi Díez planted last summer along the streets of Escaldes: new large-scale fish that he displayed in Veedors, Lalín and Santa Anna squares, Parc de la Mola, Carlemany and Coprínceps. So, if you liked the proposal, you are in luck, because the Comú has acquired the cap that was spent last summer in Coprínceps and on Thursday it will be planted again, now definitively. The Councilor of Culture, Salomó Benchluch, already warned at the time that he was thinking of acquiring one of the fish, and that everything depended on the price of the operation being interesting. In the end there has been an agreement, and the Comú has acquired the piece for 45,000 euros, with a significant discount compared to the market price of the work, according to sources of the corporation. The hood, rebatejat as Nefer 2.0, will become part of the considerable collection of public sculpture of the Comú Escaldenc. The last addition so far has been the dEmo hen at the Obac traffic circle, which will cost 15,000 euros. It is to be hoped that Nefer 2.0 will be more successful than UNDR, the company that Josep Cerdà planted in 2003 in Coprínceps and that in 2008 was ousted from such a privileged position. Today it is withdrawn, or rather punished, on the Engolasters road.
