Puerto Vallarta: A City of Culture
The Mayor of Puerto Vallarta has reopened the Sergio Bustamante sculpture "In Search of Reason" on the Malecon, earning Puerto Vallarta the title of "City of Culture" for its artistic diversity on the Malecon.
Puerto Vallarta Mayor, Salvador Gonzalez Resendiz, accompanied by City Historian, Juan Manuel Gomez Encarnación and Assistant Director of Culture, Monica Sanchez Venegas, tourists and residents celebrated with a ribbon-cutting the return of the sculpture "In Search of Reason" to the Malecon. The sculpture by artist Sergio Bustamante was inspired by English philosopher Bertrand Russell's quote "By reason, man is right in the contemplation of the world."
 The bronze and steel sculpture by artist Sergio Bustamante created controversy when it was installed in 1999 with it's depiction of two children who resemble characters from a futuristic movie, appearing to ascend or descend upon a nine meter ladder depending on the observer's point of view. Completing the work is a third figure with outstretched arms standing in front of the ladder.
"In Search of Reason" is a haunting work because of its unusual form, its characters and its subject matter. Alluding to the philosophy of Bertrand Russell, it suggests the dilemma of man as a species. Russell's work is based on the concern that modern man does not use reason to interpret the world and does not favor life on the planet, that the path of humanity towards self-destruction through nuclear war is part of the ancestral fears of dogma and prejudice of our species.
Sergio Bustamante was influenced by the philosophies of Russell and it is conveyed in this sculpture with its strange humanoid creatures clad in medieval tunics that suggest human nature not fully realized and not on the path of reason to thwart the threats of hunger, misery, ignorance or, in fact, the threat of extinction. City Historian Juan Manuel Gomez Encarnacion commented that "This sculpture on the Malecon, which is seen and photographed by thousands of tourists from all over the world, earns Puerto Vallarta the title of a city of culture." Email to a friend
Source: Puerto Vallarta Convention and Visitors Bureau
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