Last Monday, January 30, the day Alejandro Sokol would have turned 63. A sculpture was inaugurated at Hurlingham Station in homage to “El Bocha”,
“He was a resident of Hurlingham, talented and a great inspiration for generations of musicians in the country,” says the municipality. The idea of paying homage with art to the frontman of Las Pelotas and member of the first formation of Sumo, was one of the followers and neighbors of a lifetime, Marcelo Jorge Fiori Quercetti. The work of the Cordovan sculptor Adrian Bachi Delorto.
“It is not just about the location of a sculpture or a tribute, it is about something more; There is a phrase that sums up all of this very well and that says something like ‘it is not possible to make what was not have been,’” the promoter of the idea told Télam.
The statue -or sculpture- is located two blocks from what was Sokol’s house and can now be visited at the corner of Jauretche and Remedios de Escalada. Family and friends of the musician who died of a cardiorespiratory arrest in the Cordoba city of Río Cuarto on January 12, 2009 participated in the inauguration.
The images are from Telam
The work measures two meters and weighs one and a half tons, and manages to capture a very personal and characteristic gesture of the artist. The approval of the mayor of Hurlingham, Juan Zabaleta, to honor Sokol was shared by the authorities of Ferrocarriles Argentinos through the person in charge of the San Martín line, Luciano Hass. “It is incredible what was generated, for my part there is nothing left but to give a deep gratitude to everyone”, concluded Marcelo Fiori Quercetti.
Postscript: “What I love is always indelible.”
