A Giant Cock. A rooster of Barcelos with seven feet tall. By day shine the tiles that make up the evening glow LEDs that are installed on it. This is how the work that Joana Vasconcelos prepared for the official celebrations of the 450th anniversary of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The part to be exposed outdoors in Copacabana, will be inaugurated on June 10, 2015 and Brazil will be by the end of the year. Maybe forever.
Joana Vasconcelos plunges again in the Portuguese tradition to turn into anything else. After Ferry ticket, for example, that pres ented in Venice and currently circulating in the river Tagus in Lisbon, is now the turn of the iconic Galo de Barcelos be transformed and reinterpreted by the artist.
The idea of the Portuguese artist came after being challenged in Brazil by the Committee Rio450, chaired by diplomat Marcelo Calero, who sees in Joana Vasconcelos the “reflection of the relevance and contemporary artistic force of Portugal.” “We are delighted to present this so symbolic and so full of meaning,” Calero said in the presentation of the play that happened on Tuesday in Lisbon Municipal Council (CML), a partner in the initiative.
“The Rooster was undoubtedly one of the icons that I wanted to work, was already part of my list but had not yet emerged fair opportunity, “says Joana Vasconcelos, 42, told reporters, explaining to have been invited to take something to Rio de Janeiro that would mirror somehow the relationship between Portugal and Brazil in a year that will focus exactly on similarities between the two countries. The exposure of the Portuguese artist’s work is only one of many initiatives that will take place in 2015 in Rio de Janeiro in a program that has not yet been made known in detail but you want to mark the 450 the city was founded.
According to Joana Vasconcelos, “the Rooster has everything to do with it.” “This piece had to reflect the past and also the present,” continues the artist, who titled his work of Pop Rooster . “In my research work, I realized that the rooster had in its color and in its design a pop expression that has been going through several generations and centuries,” says. “So somehow looked at the Rooster and thought how could the upgrade, make it more contemporary and more adapted to the movement, the color and the light of Rio de Janeiro and there appeared the Pop Rooster and also appeared LEDs that give you a more technological air, “explains the artist, who will have the Gallo Olive support for carrying out the work.
With the appearance not unlike that which we know the Galo de Barcelos, the novelty is that the coating in tile that fills the surface of the work. Then, instead of the characteristic decoration, which usually stands a painting of lines and shapes, will be thousands of colored LEDs. “This is a rooster will be more traditional day and night will sambar,” says the artist.
Without revealing figures, Joana Vasconcelos left only clear that it is “very high costs”. “It is a great effort,” he says, still counting that other companies will join the initiative. “We are not doing a contemporary art exhibit any” attests to the artist, who also has the support of CML.
António Costa also spoke at the presentation, stating that participate in the celebrations of the founding of the 450 Rio de Janeiro, “sister city” of Lisbon, is “enormous pride” for the camera. “The rediscovery of this our common history is very inspiring, especially at a time when people feel disbelief, distrust and little faith. This history shows that whenever, when all seemed lost, a solution was found, “said the mayor who sees the piece of Joana Vasconcelos” almost as a metaphor. “
” The Joan rediscovers one of the greatest landmarks of popular culture, “continues Antonio Costa, highlighting that relationship between Lisbon and Rio is no longer just historical but also” cultural and economic “.
Pop Rooster will be installed in the Leme beach in Copacabana. Will be inaugurated on 10 June and that Rio beach will stay until the end of the year, when they finish the celebrations. Back to Portugal does not seem to be an option. “Hopefully it gets, the idea is to stay in Rio de Janeiro, maybe not in that place but this is now what is going to decide between the mayors,” says Joana Vasconcelos.
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