The Huerto del Cura garden adds a sculpture by Sol Pérez to its collection

The new piece is an equestrian statue made of stoneware located in the parterre of the giant dragon tree.

The Huerto del Cura National Artistic Garden has recently added a new piece to its sculpture collection, created in 1988 by the artist Sol Pérez from Elche. The title of the work is ‘Interpretation of Titian’s painting “Charles V in the battle of Mühlberg”, inspired by the Mallorcan Siurell’ and it is an equestrian sculpture made of stoneware. The place chosen for its placement has been the parterre of the giant dragon tree (Dracaena drago), near the Rocalla.

This original sculpture rests on a pine base, which in turn rests on an olive tree trunk base. The pine base is a sheet 15 centimetres thick and 80 centimetres in diameter, from the felling of a specimen of Pinus halepensis that existed in the Huerto del Cura itself, and which died after reaching almost 200 years of age. The olive tree stem, on the other hand, comes from a specimen in the Elche countryside.

‘With this new work we enrich the collection of sculptures housed in the Huerto del Cura. It is a different piece to all the others we have, both for its subject matter and for the materials it is made of’, said Vicente Federico Orts, one of the owners of the Huerto del Cura. In addition, he commented, ‘it is a privilege for us to have a work by Sol Pérez, an artist of her relevance and so closely linked to the city of Elche’.

Sol Pérez Segura, Elche (1940)

Artist dedicated mainly to the world of ceramics, but also involved in other forms of art such as photography, sculpture and engraving. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and is the author of murals and sculptures that can be found in numerous public and private spaces, both nationally and internationally.

At present, the Huerto del Cura Garden has more than 12,000 square metres and almost a thousand palm trees of various species. The history of the Huerto del Cura Garden begins in 1876 when the farmer Andrés Castaño bought a plot of the orchard where he lived. After his death, the property passed into the hands of his son, the chaplain José Castaño Sánchez. At that time people began to know the place as the orchard of the chaplain Castaño, later to be known by its official name.