Over the last two decades, local advocates have successfully rescued and restored most of the sculptures. To encourage the preservation of the remaining sculptures, and the reintegration of this important heritage resource into the fabric of Mexico City, Ruta de la Amistad was included on the 2012 World Monuments Watch. (...)
Over the last two decades, local advocates have successfully rescued and restored most of the sculptures. To encourage the preservation of the remaining sculptures, and the reintegration of this important heritage resource into the fabric of Mexico City, Ruta de la Amistad was included on the 2012 World Monuments Watch. In 2012, World Monuments Fund is helping restore three sculptures of the original route. Janus, by Australian sculptor Clement Meadmore, an iconic composition of a steel prism twisting onto itself, and Articulated Wall by Austrian artist Herbert Bayer, a vertical slab of 33 concrete modules threaded on a steel spine, will be restored and installed on a new site where other sculptures of Ruta de la Amistad have also been relocated. WMF will also help restore a highly deteriorated sculpture by Olivier Seguin, a French artist who lived and worked in Mexico during the 1960s, where he produced his first internationally acclaimed works. Additionally, WMF will help create interpretive materials that tell the story of this long-running preservation effort.
