Cosmic monument

Pink granite.

The National Museum of Fine Arts, Montevideo (Uruguay).

One of the symbolic works of the great aesthetic project of Torres has a manifest value. The monumental work three meters high and 5.6 meters long reproduces rows of engraved pictographic drawings. They create a world in the center of which a large figure of a person is depicted. However, among the pictures, there are still almost no Indo-American symbols – masks, step pyramids, the sacred animal llama – they will appear in the works of Torres later. In the line above the person, there is the sun, perhaps symbolizing Inti – the Inca sun god. But the author includes, for example, the number “pi”, other formulas and objects that reflect technological progress and symbols of art.