Baifo - Imagen 1
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Baifo

Official title: NT 202

For several years now, pedestrians on Primero de Mayo have encountered a small baifo that strolls peacefully along the pedestrian area. The little one doesn't seem to be afraid of the people passing by, doesn't rear up when someone approaches to pet it, and barely moves no matter how many people surround it. But this is perhaps because the little baifo, however much it may fool from a distance, is a bronze figure created by artist Emiliano Hernández, a resident of the island, and the company FunchoEscultura. The work is a donation that the airline BinterCanarias made to the capital municipality back in 2009, when 20 years had passed since the company's first flight to the majorera island. For this precise reason, on the baifo's collar one can read the numbering of that flight, NT 202, which gives the sculpture its name. A work that not only commemorates an event of great significance for Fuerteventura, but also pays tribute to one of the island's most characteristic symbols: the majorera goat. And the bronze craftsmanship, with no pigmentation other than that of the material itself, allows the viewer to imagine that the small baifo they are petting is a melá, a puipana, a rosilla... or any of the 30 subspecies that exist and characterize the majorero landscape. Authentic symbols of the island, mothers of that cheese acclaimed throughout the world, they have their rightful tribute in one of the main streets of a capital that, until not so long ago, honored them even in its name.

Código
PESC-2025-137
Año
2009
Estilo
FIGURATIVO
Materiales
Bronce
Ubicación
C. Primero de Mayo, Otras Ubicaciones
Entidad Promotora
Binter Canarias
Categoría
Bulto redondo
Estado de Conservación
BUENO

Location

This sculpture is located in the Otras Ubicaciones

Esculturas Cercanas

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