Wind signaler

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Wind signaler

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Unique
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Sculpture
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Work Details

風見信号手

大型の木製の人形で、風見とおなじ原理で風向きを指し示す。風見は沿岸地方や農村地帯でよく見られ、今日でも屋根の上に設置される。この作家は最初、小型の風見を作っていたが、やがて回転して風向きを示す大型の「人形」へと変えていった。仕掛けには羽根が必ずついており、作品のバランスを取るとともに、抵抗によって回転運動を生みだす。

Wind signaler

It is a wooden dummy, of large format, which observes the same principle of the pinwheels, which purpose is to show and mark the direction of the wind. Very common in the coastal environments and even in agricultural regions, today they are still used on the top of the houses’ roofs. Initially made with such function, in smaller sizes, the artist starts to enhance their forms creating “dummies”, where he preserves the capacities of movement and of pointing out the path of the wind, upon spinning. The blades, always present, work as a part of such device, acting on the balance of the work and operating, through the resistance it offers, as a trigger to its own movement.

Sinaleiro do vento

Trata-se de um boneco de madeira, de grande formato, que obedece ao mesmo princípio dos “cataventos”, cujo objetivo é mostrar e marcar a direção dos ventos. Muito comuns nos ambientes litorâneos e mesmo nas regiões agrícolas, são ainda hoje utilizados no alto dos telhados das casas. Inicialmente feitos com esta função, em tamanhos menores, o artista passa a ampliar suas formas criando “bonecos”, nos quais preserva as capacidades de movimento e de apontar os caminhos dos ventos, ao girar. As pás, sempre presentes, funcionam como parte desse engenho, atuando no equilíbrio da obra e funcionando, pela resistência que oferece, como deflagrador do próprio movimento.

Exhibition Information

Current Exhibition
ArtSticker Brazil
05.18.2020 - 05.18.2099

Artist

Laurentino
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Laurentino

アーティスト

ラウレンチーノ・ホーザ・ドス・サントスは1937年、パラナ州ヒオブランコドスル市ランシニャ村に生まれた。1945年に木工を習い、動物や人形の形をした風見を作った。長年ポップコーンを売りながら、カートで自作の「風見信号手」を販売した。風や手動で動く人形は北東部の匪賊カンガセイロやインディオ、サッカー選手、鳥の姿から着想している。作品によく登場するダビデの星は、パラナ州クリチバ市のカンジダイスラエル人墓地聖前でポップコーン売りをしていたころの名残かもしれない。2009年没。 Laurentino Rosa dos Santos was born in 1937, in Lancinha village, in Rio Branco do Sul, Paraná. He learned to work with wood in 1945, mounting pinwheels in the shape of animals and dummies. He has worked for years as a popcorn vendor while he traded his “wind signalers” at his own street popcorn machine. His dummies, which move with the wind or manually, are inspired in the figures of cangaceiros (outlaws from Brazilian Northeast hinterlands), Indians, soccer players, and birds. The use of Star of David is usual in his works, maybe by influence of the period when he sold popcorn in front of Santa Cândida Israeli cemetery, in Curitiba, Paraná. He died in 2009. Laurentino Rosa dos Santos, nasceu em 1937, na vila de Lancinha, em Rio Branco do Sul, Paraná. Aprendeu a trabalhar com madeira em 1945, montando cataventos na forma de animais e bonecos. Trabalhou anos como pipoqueiro enquanto comercializava seus "sinaleiros do vento" no próprio carrinho de pipoca. Seus bonecos, que se movimentam com o vento ou manualmente, são inspirados nas figuras de cangaceiros, índios, jogadores de futebol e pássaros. Em suas obras é corrente o uso da estrela de Davi, talvez por influência do período em que vendia pipocas defronte ao cemitério israelita Santa Cândida, em Curitiba, Paraná. Faleceu em 2009.

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Last updated date
07.02.2020