The ICBIE wall most exposed to the evening wind now hosts the God of the Sun, shown while openly embracing and safeguarding the Muses, the custodians, witnesses and providers of the arts and memory.
Pietro, along with Julio, Bigod and the Nova 10 Ordem crew, taking advantage of the assistance of volunteer helpers, opened a big new panorama on the side of the building, creating this artwork on the side facade of the Institute to provide a new way to welcome and to introduce, coloring the barriers to bring inside and outside closer together.
Worthy of the syncretic traditions of Bahia, on both land and water, the Apollo of the Cidade Baixa bequeathes Dance, Music, Painting, Politics, Literature, Mime, Tragedy and Comedy (the two sisters of Theater) and Forgotten History, evoking the maternity of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, among the Olympian divinities.
A new opportunity to tread the streets around the ICBIE, and to encounter the local community: after a few days of painting and the dance of curious bystanders watching the graffiti come to life, last Monday we celebrated its birth.
On this corner of Ribeira’s Olympus, the creators of the work reaffirmed the central role of the arts in the course of projects old and new, celebrating the new daughters together with the invited group; during the toasts to the Muses, funds were solicited to support the initiatives of the MUSAS – The Museum of Street Art of Salvador (www.ilovemusas.com).
The giant Apollo was also the backdrop for the farewells to Caterina and Sara, the two volunteers who, after spending many months at home in the ICBIE, depart across the seas while holding fast to the ties that bind them to Brazil.
