First, the prime minister, António Costa, and after, the plastic artist Joana Vasconcelos, tried to turn on the lights of the sculpture with 10 meters of height, pressing the button of the command, but without success. After several people try to understand what was happening, came the explanation: the command had no stack.
António Costa made a joke and said that it was better to be women “to give birth”, and took the opportunity to recall a story of his, describing that, while the ruler, assured Antonio Guterres that it would work well in the Expo ‘ 98, on being asked by the then prime minister had personally tested the electrical outlets, which usually fail.
Finally, the “Pop Cock” was connected directly in the electrical box and lit up, prompting applause from the audience, which focused along with the work.
“Is the representation of what we want that to be our image, the image of a modern country, but that it is a country that loses its roots, a country that claims based on the popular culture”, has described António Costa.
The prime minister recalled that the work of Joana Vasconcelos was created to mark the friendship between Portugal and Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 450 years of the foundation of this brazilian city, in the past year, but “by the events in rio, such was not the case.
“There are always coincidences happy and this cock is in fact a universal mark, will make his first international appearance here in the city of Lisbon, in the week that we started the Web Summit,” stressed the head of Government.
With the global conference of technology and innovation, which takes place between Monday and Thursday in the capital, the executive does not want that “Lisbon from becoming a Silicon Valley or in Berlin, but Lisbon is Lisbon, Portugal is Portugal, but every now and again open and, as always, open to the world”.
Portugal, the cock will travel, by boat, to Beijing and Shanghai, celebrating the Year of the Rooster in China, recalled the Coast, in the presence of the chinese ambassador in Lisbon.
“your presence will symbolize the friendship between our peoples and our countries, in a very important moment, in that we are going to have a bridge connecting our countries, from July a regular flight between Hangzhou, Beijing and Lisbon and we are from there’s always more coming,” he said.
Confessing that it required “a lot of the architecture of diplomacy to that this cock head of the Ribeira das Naus to the World,” the prime minister vowed that “one day I will find a landing definitive, because it is very expensive each time it flies”.
“We are sure that you arrive at Rio de Janeiro, we don’t know for which side of the sea, nor exactly in what year”, said the mayor of Lisbon Fernando Medina.
The mayor who is a socialist, recalled that the tiles “has an ancient tradition in Portugal and in Lisbon and highlighted the sculpture, which combines modernity with a representation of the iconography of popular culture in portugal.
With 10 meters of height, 3.5 tons, nine miles of cable and nearly 16 thousand LED, the “Pop Cock” is covered by thousands of tiles, cut-to-hand, reported to their author.
The work allows for an interaction with the public, who can choose, through a QR code, the light that lights up and that is associated with a particular musical composition, the authorship of John the Runes.
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