(남미/브라질) 브라질 예술가 황의표시로 도시의 조각상의 얼굴을 빨간 천으로 가리다

출처: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35796529

Brazil artist blindfolds Rio statues as protest

• 13 March 2016
 
• From the sectionLatin America & Caribbean

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Image captionPrincess Isabel 's statue is on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro

A hundred statues on the streets of Rio de Janeiro have had their eyes covered in red blindfolds.

It is an artistic protest at the deepening political crisis in Brazil. (밝은 하늘: 천으로 눈을 가린 퍼포먼스를 행한 이유는 브라질의 정치가 제대로 돌아가지 않고 위기를 맞고 있기 때문에 여기에 대한 항의 표시로 리오데자네이로市 코파카바나 해안에 설치된 모든 동상들의 눈을 빨간 천으로 가린 것임.)

The anonymous artist said he wanted to protect national figures from Brazil's history from seeing the shameful state of the nation.

The artist said the work was not connected to protest marches against President Dilma Rousseff planned for Sunday.

The statues, which are scattered across the city, include one of Brazil's ex-President Getulio Vargas, the country's first dictator who ruled the country from 1930 to 1945 and sought to transform Brazil from a plantation-based economy into an industrial powerhouse.

Also blindfolded was a statue of Alberto Santos Dumond, the father of Brazilian aviation and Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil who as regent actively promoted and ultimately signed the "Lei Aurea" or Golden Law, emancipating all slaves in Brazil on 13 May 1888.

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Image captionAlberto Santos Dumond was a pioneer of Brazilian aviation

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Image captionIndian politician and peace activist, Mahatma Gandhi, was also blindfolded

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Image captionJose Martiniano de Alencar is considered one of the most influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century

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Image captionHumberto de Alencar Castelo Branco served as the first president of the Brazilian military government after the 1964 military coup d'etat

The artist who works under an art scheme called "Oraculo Project" said that he wanted to transmit that "protest is not just about street demonstrations".

On Sunday huge protests are planned by opponents to President Dilma Rousseff to demand her impeachment on charges of having mishandled the budget and the economy.

Brazil is suffering its worse economic recession in decades.

The artist said: "The idea is to blindfold the eyes of those who can no longer do anything for the country and to avoid them helplessly witnessing the economic and political crisis in the country, unable to do anything."