Video: Dead fly - decoration of the Day of the Dead in Mexico
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Giant insects attacking cities is a typical plot of low-budget horror films. Of course, nothing like this can happen in reality, in spite of any radiation and genetic experiments of mad scientists. The only ones who can really create giant fly or a cockroach are artists. For example, Florentijn Hofman.
In Mexico and other Central American countries, there is a very unusual holiday, the Day of the Dead. It is believed that at this time the spirits of deceased ancestors come out of the ground and visit their living relatives. Those same prepare for this event in every possible way, dress up, set tables and decorate houses.
It is this unusual Mesoamerican holiday that is dedicated to the new work of the Dutch artist Florentin Hoffmann, known all over the world for his unusual huge sculptures such as giant snails or a large yellow hare.
His new creation is realized quite in the spirit of the previous works of the master. It is a giant dead fly lying upside down on the roof of one of the buildings in the center of the Mexican city of Queretaro.
Florentin Hoffmann explains the idea of this unusual sculpture with his desire to rethink the Mexican Day of the Dead, to create a monument to this unusual holiday in order to popularize it far beyond the borders of the country where he was born several centuries, or even millennia ago.
Moreover, it was not Florentin Hoffman himself who volunteered to create this monument - the Dutch artist was invited to do this by public organizations and private companies from Mexico. And the opening of the sculpture Mosca Muerta (Dead Fly) took place within the framework of the annual festival of visual arts Cut out fest.
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