点评:Nelson Mandela was arrested on 5 August 1962 outside of Howick, KZN Natal, South Africa. He spent the next 27 years of his life in prison. He was captured by armed apartheid police who flagged down a car in which he was pretending to be the chauffeur. Having succeeded in evading capture by apartheid operatives for 17 months, Mandela had just paid a clandestine visit to ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli’s Groutville home to report back on his African journey and to request support in calling for an armed struggle. It was in this dramatic way, at this unassuming spot, that Nelson Mandela was finally captured and arrested.
The sculpture acknowledges the 50th anniversary of the capture of Nelson Mandela. It can be seen from the road as a forest of steel poles. To see the sculpture, you walk from the Visitor Centre along a path representing 'the Long Walk to Freedom'. As you walk towards the sculpture, you end up at the viewing point halfway down a cut into the earth, where the steel columns gradually come together and focus at a particular point 30 metres from the sculpture. It is at this point where you see illusion of a flat two dimensional image recreating Madiba's portrait, metaphorically announcing his return to the site of his disappearance from world view.
翻译:1962 年 8 月 5 日,纳尔逊·曼德拉在南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省豪伊克郊外被捕。他随后在监狱中度过了 27 年。他被武装的种族隔离警察抓获,警察拦下了一辆他假装是司机的汽车。在成功躲过种族隔离特工 17 个月的追捕后,曼德拉刚刚秘密访问了非洲人国民大会主席阿尔伯特·卢图利在格鲁特维尔的家,汇报他的非洲之旅,并请求支持发动武装斗争。纳尔逊·曼德拉最终以这种戏剧性的方式在这个不起眼的地方被捕。
这座雕塑是为了纪念纳尔逊·曼德拉被捕 50 周年。从公路上可以看到它是一片钢杆森林。要看到这座雕塑,您可以从游客中心沿着一条代表“漫漫自由路”的小路走下去。当你走向雕塑时,你会到达一个位于地面半切处的观景点,钢柱逐渐汇合,并聚焦在距离雕塑 30 米的一个特定点。正是在这个点,你会看到一个平面二维图像的幻觉,重现了曼德拉的肖像,隐喻性地宣布他回到了从世界视野中消失的地方。