Video: Whale on the Shore: Hyperrealistic Installation in London
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Into the Thames in the London area dolphins swim from time to time, which delights the residents of the city and makes the workers of the rescue services worry. And in the summer of 2013 on the riverbank right in the British capital a whale jumped … Not real, of course. It's about an unusual hyperralistic installation from the Belgian art group Captain boomer.
Artist Ron Mueck is known for his mind-boggling hyperrealistic sculptures that draw public attention to previously unnoticeable details. Captain Boomer, a Belgian artist association, is also following in his footsteps. As part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, held in late June in London, these authors "forced" a huge whale to land on the banks of the Thames.
In the news, there are often stories about another whale, which, for unknown reasons, threw itself onto the shore of the sea or ocean, and people who were resting on the beach, together, pushed it back into the water. This disinterested mass and self-organized help from people inspired the artists from Captain Boomer to create this installation.
At the end of June, a huge seventeen-meter figure of a whale made of fiberglass appeared on one of the beaches of the Thames in Greenwich. And next to her, in white coats and protective suits, the Captain Boomer participants began to watch, playing real doctors and rescuers who are trying to help this gigantic swimming mammal.
Moreover, they also suggested that random passers-by, who stopped to figure out what was the matter, turn the whale over and try to push it into the water. However, then they explained to the volunteers that this was just a creative experiment, and not a real natural incident.
After lying on the beach for several days, the whale installation from Captain Boomer was moved to the platform in front of the Cutty Sark ship - one of the main attractions of Greenwich along with the famous observatory.
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