Commissioned by the Denver Art Museum and inaugurated on June 30, 2017 on the esplanade opposite the museum (DAM), La Musidora® is a colorful and interactive 90 foot long installation designed by Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena from ESRAWE + CADENA Studio, which seeks to continue the successful path of its predecessor pieces: Mi Casa Your Casa® and Los Trompos®. La Musidora is born from the fusion of two words that give meaning to its function: music and rocking chair. The initial inspiration that detonates the conceptual development of the installation is a public piece of urban furniture located in the City of Mérida, Yucatán, the chair Tú y Yo or Confidente; made up of two chairs encountered face to face and designed for a couple to look at each other and talk. Another conceptual axis is sound. The linear piece of almost 30 m. is the metaphor of a great marimba or xylophone. Each of the modules formed by pairs is equipped with a percussion mechanism that activates a system of bells that, when rocking, generates musical notes that go from high to low following the longitudinal direction of the installation.
La Musidora
Esrawe + Cadena

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Designer
Esrawe + Cadena
Client
Denver Art Museum
Floor area
39.90 ㎡
Completion
2017