Life through death: Cemetery art in Europe
Every era has its own artists to exhibit. They who dear to imprint emotions and experiences through the use and application of arts and crafts. Their aim has always been to tell a story, describe a human experience that lives through time.
A result of this venture is often met in cemeteries around the world, which are now visited and treated like venues of world art and culture. Pain, grief, loss and longing, along with hope are feelings present in the daily life and affect every human being one way or the other. Thus, we often meet the imprint of those feelings in monuments of long existence, such as statues, which are often riveting as they touch inner feelings through besides exhibiting their exquisite art aspects. All of these works of art are available to be admired by visiting the cemeteries either in person or through the web.
So today a big talk in on the table for a new type of tourism, the cemetery tourism, which is supported by people who actively support this time-capsule of art and imprint of the history of humanity and it gains fans day by day. Many Cemeteries around the world have been receiving visitors thanks to personalities that are buried there or the artwork that jewels their graves.
Today one can be informed through the link: http://www.significantcemeteries.org of ASCE (Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe) about the effort to promote the European Cemeteries, as a basic element of the legacy of humanity. One can visit the above website and discover how the artists’ society is supported by people sworn to perpetuate art in cemeteries but also the efforts that are carried out in the rest of the world for the spreading of its existence.
By visiting a city’s cemetery, a tourist, a visitor or a pilgrim of a sort can dive in the deeper culture of the place he is and he has the opportunity to get an inner glimpse of the society in which those who lie there were nurtured.
That being said, there have been software applications in the past few years in order to help the organisations that run the cemeteries all over Europe make the most of that part of history, benefit financially from that, while at the same time offer the best of services to the citizens and relatives of those who are interred there.
That has to do with geological imprint of the graves and monuments which can be a tool in a tourist guide itinerary, but also a detailed digital directory that will be a tool to the administrative organization.
Elias Lazarides
Business Develompent @ OTS SA