DANTE · Incense base 2020. Mexico.

‘Your capital sins’.
Inferno—the first and best-known of the Dante Alighieri’s three-part epic poem, The Divine Comedy—has been a source of scholarly fascination and reflection for centuries. This piece, by Ignacio del Toro, is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the act of reflection: often, we light a stick of incense to help bring ourselves to a different emotional or psychological state. In this case, the polished, smooth depression echoes the languid descent of the incense; the stone material evokes earthly physicality and the finality of a stone cenotaph; the smoke and ash of the incense is like the faint evidence of sin.

· Museo Jumex · CDMX, México.
· Mās Concreto · CDMX, México.

Marble base 90 mm. Ø x 50 mm. h.
Black Marble Monterrey / Volcanic stone. Jalisco, México.
Concrete edition for Mās Concreto. México.

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