Roc Bird

The sinuous shapes that extend from the nests represent the Roc bird, a predatory and giant bird that became known when appearing in “Simbá, the Sailor” and in “Abd al-Rahman, the Maghribi's Story of the Rukh”, both tales from “A Thousand and One Nights”. The bird's origin may be the mythology of India and there are also references to it in the writings of Marco Polo (1254-1324). Francisco Brennand was born in Recife (PE), in 1927. He began his artistic training in 1942, when he received modeling lessons from Abelardo da Hora (1924-2014). He later received painting orientation from Álvaro Amorim. In the late forties he traveled to Paris, where he attended courses by André Lhote (1885-1962) and Fernand Léger (1881-1955). In 1971 Brennand began to restore an old paternal-owned pottery, near Recife, transforming it into a workshop and permanent exhibition place, the Oficina Brennand (Brennand workshop). He passed away in Recife, in 2019.