Brazil: Sculpture Park

Posted by: bizarrorecife

Dec 23, 2011

Sculpture Park pays homage to Northeastern culture The city of Heath's of God, located in the Agreste region of the state, 180 km from Recife, perhaps best known for the spectacle of Christ's Passion, staged in the largest outdoor theater in the world. Since 1968, the theater presentations in the city of New Jerusalem attracts spectators from all over Brazil and the world. What not to say that is the only tourist attraction in the city. Quite the contrary. About 2 km away is the Monumental Sculpture Park Nilo Coelho, part of the patrimony of the Tourism Company of Pernambuco State (Empetur). Recently, the site has been improved to receive tourists. Opened on April 2, 1981, the Sculpture Park has origins in the simple figure of the artisan Northeast. At the time, many workers in New Farm, Heath district of the of God, were unemployed. Under the circumstances, Pliny Pacheco, who years earlier had designed a replica of Jerusalem in the middle ground of the Pernambucan, had another idea: Monumental Sculpture Park Nilo Coelho. From there the time before idle, began to be used with tools in hand in front of huge granite boulders. The intention was to promote the culture of the Northeast. Through the creativity of artisans, spurred by reason of ensuring the preservation of the memory of Pernambuco, one artist stands out. Your name: José Faustino. Author of the drawings that form stones, Faustino has own sculptors in New Farm a model life of man Northeast, main object of the artist's imagination. According to one of these workers, Joseildo Coast, the three months to produce a sculpture has a significant meaning. "It's like the figure arose from the stone." Grouped into nine sectors, each with a different theme, the 37 granite pieces present in the Park have variable length between three and seven feet high. From religion, folklore music and the sculptures we have the formation of the Northeast. Since the emblematic figure of the lamp to the seller of tapioca, there are many characters introduced in the Park. Located in sector 4, however, the statue "the dead carrying the living," is, according to Roger Sebastian, 75, who lives in New Farm since 1942 and was the Barabbas of the Passion of Christ, 1969, the most contentious among tourists. "I always play with the probable relationship that existed between the dead and the living." The ride through the park can be accomplished either by car and a walk alongside the sculptures. According to the executive of institutional articulation of Tourism Company of Pernambuco (Empetur), Pepito Acevedo, the details of each statue can thus be appreciated during the time that tourists prefer. "The appeal site is the ability for visitors to feel right in the scenario of the Wasteland, among the cacti, rocks and aveloses, in direct contact with the culture of Pernambuco," said Acevedo. The area of ​​60 hectares of the Sculpture Park is open to visitors between 7 am and 11 am and from 13h to 17h all week. Admission is $ 5 for small vehicles and $ 10 for buses. In 2007, the park was visited by 228 vehicles and with the investments made by the government is expected this number will grow from this year.