In 2010, Jorge Marin brought 13 huge urban sculptures to a grand exhibition on the Chapultepec Forest side of Reform Avenue in Mexico City, including a sculpture created by him for the exhibition, "Wings of Mexico". This exhibition, especially this themed sculpture, attracted a large number of visitors far beyond expectations and brought a huge visual and social impact to people from different cultural backgrounds.

"Wings of Mexico" represents people's dream of flying freely with their own bodies and consciousness, relying on desire, belief and passion. This sculpture breaks free from the shackles of the laws of physics, and invites people to surpass their limits. Since 2010, this sculpture has become a new gathering landmark of the city, a source of joy and pleasure, and a medium for interaction between the public and artists. 

Since then, as a testimony to the huge social response to the sculpture, a book named "Wings of the City" was published. The book invited Jorge Lepes and Adam Weissman to take the lead in photography. The preface was written by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. In March 2012, this book won the Best Art Book Award at the 32nd National Graphic Arts Festival.

"Wings of Mexico" is a work that can resonate with viewers of various cultural backgrounds, because wings have been a common theme of human art, mythology and even culture for thousands of years. Transferring this work to different countries, different cultures and different cities for exhibition tours will provide visitors the opportunity to understand the creative power of contemporary Mexican plastic art. It will also showcase the richness of Mexican art, especially the art of modeling and sculpture, and will connect Mexico with other countries, cities or citizens. 

To this end, the artist intends to donate copies of the "Wings of Mexico", made of bronze with cement and iron bases that match the height of the individual to major cities in the world. They are displayed in permanent public spaces of these cities. Jorge Marin Studio will select a number of cities that have a significant impact on human history or development to donate these sculptures. 

The first recipient of this project is Tel Aviv, Israel. "Wings of Mexico" was placed on October 10, 2012 in the Tel Aviv Port District, Israel's second most popular attraction after the Wailing Wall. This pair of highly symbolic wings was able to settle in Israel and meet the people of Tel Aviv thanks to the strong support of the Mexican Jewish Federation. This is also a gift for the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Israel. The former chief executive of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebola de Casaou, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, Junghurde, and the Mexican ambassador to Israel Federico Salas attended the donation ceremony of the sculpture.

The second donated copy was matched by Mr. Quatmok Cardenas and former Mexican ambassador to Germany Patricia Espinosa, and settled in Berlin, Germany in October 2013.

In Mexico City, the "Wings of the City" sculpture exhibition was held on Reforma Avenue for three years from 2010 to 2013. Later, in June 2014, "Wings of Mexico" was officially donated to Mexico City. Mexico City Chief Executive Miguel Angel Marcella attended the donation ceremony.

Currently, the donation project is seeking to land in Singapore, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, a city in North America, Sydney in Australia and Johannesburg in South Africa.

About the Artist

Jorge Marin (born in Mexico in 1963). After 25 years of artistic creation and exploration, he has become one of the representative figures of Mexican contemporary art.

Marin's sculptures express the inner strength and texture of bronze. The artist uses this to construct a dynamic body, to challenge gravity. The sculptures stand still and even rotate freely on a small fulcrum. 

Marin’s work expresses the intense contrast between bronze, a metal that gives people a cold feeling, and the emotional or energetic images created. Those wings have become unique marks of sculptors.

Another distinctive mark of Marin's sculpture is the mask, which allows people to divert their attention from the features of the human face and to listen to the universal artistic language carried by the artist's body.

In Mexico and around the world, Jorge Marin has organized and participated in more than 200 group and solo exhibitions, covering the United States, Britain, Latin America and Europe.

Marlin's work has been exhibited in art galleries and galleries in France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Denmark and Singapore and its Asian tour exhibition reached its peak in 2015.

The "Wings of Mexico" that he created for a long time displayed on the Avenue of Reformation in Mexico City is actually part of a project called Eight Cities and Eight Cultures. This series of eye-catching urban sculptures has been settled in public spaces in Mexico City, Mexico, Berlin, Germany and Tel Aviv, Israel, and has become representation of the artist.