The Rotunda das Chairs, one of the most emblematic in the city of Lagos, was revitalized 20 years later after its inauguration. The sculptor Vera Gonçalves reinterpreted her original work, using iron, and the requalification work was completed last Saturday, December 14th.
The original work was created 25 years after the 25th of April, in 1999, with the circle with 7 chairs representing the transformation of social, political and economic molds and dynamics at the turn of the new millennium.
The artist considers that «fraternization and dialogue are the means through which consensus, freedom and the ideals of democracy can be reached».
After a «marked presence» for twenty years, «the 7 Chairs fall to rise again, in the same place, this time with the added strength that the use of iron gives them and with the suggestive complexity of the immense paths and voids that mark contemporaneity », adds Vera Gonçalves.
The sculptural reinterpretation of the chairs «goes from the “monolithic” structure in 1999 to a “crossroads of directions” in 2019».
Even so, the work, according to the artist, «continues to evoke the ideals of the past and to invite, even more, to the multiplicity of new understandings».
For Vera Gonçalves, «the aim of art is to make us think. If it doesn't make us think, then it's not worth doing».
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