"Último Adeus" , portrays the sweet kiss of a couple, in an expression of affection and intimacy, reflecting a moment in the sense of eternity, the opposition between life and death represented by this life-size bronze sculpture that rests on a slab of black marble, with carved on the base "Last Adeus" - "Last Goodbye" - .
complex sculpture dating from the second half of the twentieth century, Cantarella is the family tomb, by sculptor Brazilian Oliani Alfredo (1906-1988) and is located in the Cemetery of the Consolation of S. Paulo (Brazil), many regarded as a representation of erotic beauty.
Antonio rich immigrant came from Italy with his wife Mary, and then settled in St. Paul as a merchant and businessman, died at Christmas Eve of 1942 at the age of 65, and his wife Mary, ten years younger died away many years later in 1982.
His wife, asked the artist a sculpture that represents the deepest feelings openly of his marriage with her husband, as if she wanted to show to the anonymous passers-man of his life, representing the immortality of their love, a refusal to acknowledge the dark abyss of death.
Without doubt one of the most beautiful and most representative of the pain of separation,
meeting denied the carnal intensity represented by a male athletic, naked, leaning with passion the body of a young beautiful woman in the act of kissing.
In fact, in addition to a significant erotic component, the artist wanted to convey in this extraordinary work, poetry, passion, sexuality, ecstasy, death, immortal love, the refusal of the body and sexuality with death, in an eloquent statement of a love without veils.
Oliani Alfredo, the son of Italian, was born in Sao Paulo in 1906 and died here in 1988, studied in Italy at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, and many of his works are in cemetery and the city of St. Paul.
Ref: http://www.sandrofortunato.com.br - http://fotolog.terra.com.br
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