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Glasgow Cross Crucifixion
A public art-work by artist David Adam hung in the centre of Glasgow
above the Val D'Oro restaurant, Glasgow's oldest fish and chip shop at
the Cross near the historic Tolbooth. The scene is centred on the Mercat
Cross looking towards the Trongate.
The figure in the foreground is Peter Corvi who gave his life to serving
the people of Glasgow for 50 years in the Val D'Oro. A child stretches
up in a vain attempt to give Christ a drink from a bottle of iron
fortified lemonade symbolising the biblical wine vinegar on a sponge.
The figure on the right with a dog in the trolley is Mary P......., she
wrote a touching poem about Peter when he died and this can be read in
the Val D'Oro.
The figure on the left outside the Val D'Oro is tenor singer Luigi who
now serves there.
A teenage drunk, a busker, a cripple, a prostitute, a pick-pocket thief,
various shoppers, a priest and mature ned are the other figures that
feature in the picture which is 2.5 x 3.5 metres in size.
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Feb.2012, Gallowgate at Glasgow Cross looking over to London
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Photo Norrie GlescaPals admin |
Luigi Corvi.runs
Val D'Oro, an old-fashioned chippy at Glasgow Cross.By
reputation, Val D'Oro is Glasgow's oldest chippy, located since 1875
on the vague boundary where town centre blurs into east end.
The Corvi family have owned Val D'Oro
since 1938, before which it was called The Swiss Restaurant and belonged
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Painting by the
artist David Adam, Luigi Corvi's brother-in-law, depicting Christ being
crucified. It was put there in honour of the Pope's visit. Corvi is in
the picture, holding a fish supper, and so is his most regular customer,
Mary Paterson, who is in her nineties and has been eating at Val D'Oro
for at least 70 years. It is very much a Glaswegian crucifixion. Christ,
leaning out from the cross, is being offered a restorative swig of
Irn-Bru.
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July 2012 GlescaPal Gallowgategal
This is called The Passion at Glasgow Cross by David
Adams and sits above the Val D'Oro Restaurant.
Completed in 2010 David Adam's stark image of a crucified Christ in a
street scene at Glasgow Cross places Christ in the midst of the city. At
the foot of the cross where Christ's grieving mother Mary traditionally
stands, is another Mary, Mary Paterson, a valued customer and local
character, now in her nineties, huddled
over the basket in which she carried her dog Sheba.
To the left of the cross, Luigi Corvi,
owner of the shop, stands poised to sing, bearing a plate of fish and
chips. In his innocence, a small boy offers up the remains of his Irn
Bru to Jesus while a woman to his right attempts to pick the pocket of a
passer-by and a man nearby injects heroin into his thigh. |
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Here is a
link to a BBC
radio podcast about the Val D'oro and the painting :
( note may only work in the UK )
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Val D'Oro restaurant July 2005.
Inside, the wood and Formica tables and booths date back to 1950.
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