2025年7月4日 星期五

The Merry Cemetery 瑟彭察歡樂墓園(羅馬尼亞,木雕藝術家斯坦·伊萬·珀特拉什(Stan Ioan Pătraș)建立)。 理查德·J·莫伊蘭 (Richard J. Moylan)在擔任紐約布魯克林綠林公墓(Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn)總經理的近40年期間,將它改造轉型為二個非營利,文化機構,讓紐約人驕傲無比

A portrait of Richard J. Moylan, who wears a blue suit and looks off to the side while standing among gravestones in a grassy cemetery near a chapel on a sunny day.
Richard J. Moylan got a job cutting grass at Green-Wood Cemetery during law school in the 1970s. He stayed until last week.Credit...Amir Hamja for The New York Times

He Made Green-Wood Cemetery a Destination for the Living

Richard J. Moylan has overseen a transformation of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in his nearly 40 years as president. Now he’s ready to retire.

這是理查德·J·莫伊蘭的肖像。陽光明媚的日子裡,他穿著藍色西裝,站在教堂附近一座綠草如茵的墓地裡,目光偏向一邊。
理查德·J·莫伊蘭在上世紀70年代讀法學院時,在綠林公墓找到了一份修剪草坪的工作。他一直在那裡工作到上週。圖片來源:Amir Hamja 為《紐約時報》拍攝
他讓綠林公墓成為生者的歸宿
理查德·J·莫伊蘭在擔任總經理的近40年裡,監督了布魯克林綠林公墓的改造。現在,他準備退休了。

理查德·J·莫伊蘭在上世紀70年代讀法學院時,在綠林公墓找到了一份修剪草坪的工作。他一直在那裡工作到上週。圖片來源:Amir Hamja 為《紐約時報》拍攝

The cemetery has commissioned contemporary artworks and added events that account for the changing demographics of the surrounding neighborhoods.Credit...Amir Hamja for The New York Times





“I thought, My God, here I am in my local cemetery, and it seemed so much more sublime than Carnegie Hall,” Ms. Cunningham said. “I just felt so happy to be a New Yorker.”

Over the years, Mr. Moylan added green burials and was persuaded to allow the grass to grow wild in one area to attract pollinators, a practice that has upset some families whose relatives are buried there. The cemetery created an artist-in-residence program and commissioned new sculptures, including an obelisk by the French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, with a slot into which visitors are invited to slip notes describing their secrets.

Heidi Lau, a ceramist who in 2021 became Green-Wood’s first artist in residence, said she walked the grounds every day to find a theme for her commission. “Seeing the seasons change and thinking about the garden as a metaphor for immortality and change, which is also a concept in Chinese gardens,” she said. The result was an abstract installation, now in the permanent collection, that she called “Gardens as Cosmic Terrains.”


「我心想,天哪,我竟然就在我家附近的墓地裡,這感覺比卡內基音樂廳莊嚴多了,」坎寧安女士說。 “我感覺自己是個紐約人,真是太幸福了。”

多年來,莫伊蘭先生增加了綠色墓葬,並被說服讓一處地方的野草自由生長,以吸引傳粉昆蟲。這種做法讓一些埋葬在那裡的親屬的家人感到不安。墓園設立了一個藝術家駐地項目,並委託創作了新的雕塑,其中包括法國概念藝術家索菲·卡爾創作的方尖碑,碑上有一個開口,邀請參觀者將記錄他們秘密的紙條塞進去。

陶藝家海蒂·劉於2021年成為格林伍德墓地的首位駐場藝術家,她說她每天都會在墓地裡走動,為她的委託作品尋找主題。 「觀察四季的變遷,將花園視為永恆與變化的隱喻,這也是中國花園的概念,」她說。最後創作出一件抽象裝置作品,現已被永久收藏,她稱之為「花園作為宇宙地形」。




 “If you’re going to spend an eternity,” Mr. Hamill once explained, “better with a rogue than with a saint who would drive you into slumber.”

哈米爾先生曾經解釋道:“如果你要度過永恆,那麼和一個流氓在一起要比和一個會讓你沉睡的聖人在一起要好。”




瑟彭察歡樂墓園羅馬尼亞語Cimitirul Vesel din Săpânța;英語:Merry Cemetery)是位於羅馬尼亞馬拉穆列什縣瑟彭察鄉瑟彭察村的一座公墓。歡樂墓園由木雕藝術家斯坦·伊萬·珀特拉什Stan Ioan Pătraș)建立,在他死後由其徒弟杜米特魯·波普(Dumitru Pop)接管。[1]

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Merry Cemetery and its church
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Merry Cemetery (video)
The workshop at Stan Ioan Pătraș's house where the tombstones of Merry Cemetery were created

The Merry Cemetery (RomanianCimitirul Vesel pronounced [tʃimiˈtirul ˈvesel]HungarianVidám temető) is a cemetery in the village of SăpânțaMaramureș CountyRomania. It is famous for its brightly coloured tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the people who are buried there in addition to scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction. It has been listed as one of the Seven Wonders of Romania by Imperator Travel.[1]

The unusual feature of this cemetery is that it diverges from the prevalent belief, culturally shared within European societies, that views death as something indelibly solemn.

A collection of the epitaphs from the Merry Cemetery exists in a 2017 volume called Crucile de la Săpânța, compiled by author Roxana Mihalcea,[2] as well as in a photography book titled The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta by Peter Kayafas.[3]

The founder

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The cemetery's origins are linked with the name of Stan Ioan Pătraș, a local artist who sculpted the first tombstone crosses. In 1935, Pătraș carved the first epitaph and, as of the 1960s, more than 800 of such oak wood crosses came into sight. The inscription on his tombstone cross says:

Romanian

De cu tînăr copilaș
Io am fost Stan Ion Pătraș
Să mă ascultaț oameni buni
Ce voi spune nu-s minciuni

Cîte zile am trăit
Rău la nime n-am dorit
Dar bine cît-am putut
Orișicine mia cerut

Vai săraca lumea mea
Că greu am trăit în ea

English

Since I was a little boy
I was known as Stan Ion Pătraş
Listen to me, good people
There are no lies in what I am going to say

All along my life
I meant no harm to anyone
But did good as much as I could
To anyone who asked

Oh, my poor World
Because It was hard living in it

Humorous epitaphs

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The cemetery is noted for featuring a large number of humorous epitaphs that generally poke fun at the interred person in a light-hearted way or reference a general trope about family relations. The following is an example of an epitaph wrote by a man in honour of his mother-in-law:

Romanian:

Sub această cruce grea
Zace biata soacră-mea
Trei zile de mai trăia
Zăceam eu și cetea ea.
Voi care treceți pă aici
Incercați să n-o treziți
Că acasă dacă vine
Iarăi cu gura pă mine
Da așa eu m-oi purta
Că-napoi n-a înturna
Stai aicea dragă soacră-mea

English:

Under this heavy cross
Lies my poor mother-in-law
Three more days should she have lived
I would lie, and she would read (this cross).
You, who here are passing by
Not to wake her up please try
Cause' if she comes back home
She'll scold me more.
But I will surely behave
So she'll not return from grave.
Stay here, my dear mother-in-law!

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Cele 7 minuni ale României – la final!" (in Romanian). July 20, 2012.
  2. ^ Mihalcea, Roxana (2017). Crucile de la Săpânța: o colecție de epitafuri din veselul cimitir maramureșan. București: ALL. ISBN 978-606-587-515-9OCLC 1031115821.
  3. ^ "The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta". Purple Martin Press. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
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