Painéis da Via Sacra

The Pilgrims Highway that connects the city of Goiania Trinity becomes in its sixteen miles long, in open gallery, single job in the world, with fourteen panels that depict the key moments of the Passion of Jesus Christ. Its creator is the artist Omar Souto than working "in loco" the sacred images painted in a hundred and five days.
Each panel measures ten feet wide by four tall and is composed of concrete and masonry structure. Built in pairs are interconnected so as to suggest the formation of an altar. In this context fall into squares with grassy areas, lighting with halogen spotlights that highlight the paintings of the panels, benches and restrooms.
The artist incorporated his work contemporary facts and circumstances of his emotional world. All panels show the girl Leide das Neves, the accident victim with radioactive cesium 137, which occurred in Goiania in 1987. The wife of the painter, his brother, friends and passersby on the highway are portrayed in a unique way and even Omar Souto appears in the third, tenth and the third panel.
Commenting on the work, the Veja magazine published "The murals of Omar Souto, so monumental for portraying the naivety of its stroke, coma married and modernity of the highway - they are pleasant to be seen ... The result is unprecedented in the field of attraction for motorists who ply the highways of the country. "

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