Video: Garbage installation Fragile in a Montreal mall
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Huge shopping centers, which are abundant in any large city, are a symbol of modern consumer culture, a consumer society. But there is a downside in Consumption - pollution of nature. This is what he informs the visitors of one of the shopping centers in Montreal (Quebec) installation "Fragile"created by out of the trash by Canadian artists Brian Armstrong and Peter Gibson.
Recently, more and more artists around the world are turning their attention to the pollution of our planet with household waste: plastic, glass and others. More and more works of art appear on this issue. Not so long ago, for example, we told you about a series of garbage sculptures "Washed Ashore", created by the artist Angela Pozzi from the garbage she collected on the ocean near her home. A similar installation was created by Canadian artists Peter Gibson (known under the pseudonym Roadsworth) and Brian Armstrong.
A large-scale installation titled "Fragile" ("Thin") was installed by them in the Montreal shopping center Eaton Center mall. Moreover, she occupied the entire atrium of this mall, placing herself on its floor, and on its ceiling, and on its walls.
This installation consists of twenty thousand empty plastic bottles and almost a thousand square meters of cardboard. Moreover, these materials were taken by the artists not in a warehouse, but collected over several months on the streets of Montreal. Figures of animals and plants are made from bottles and cardboard sheets, the natural environment characteristic of different regions of our planet is imitated.
Armstrong and Gibson themselves explain the idea of their installation “Fragile” (“Thin”): “The bottles, from which waterfalls and ponds, trees and plants are created, are just an illusion that grew out of the disorder and chaos created by people. This is only an artificial representation of Nature, emphasizing the fragility of natural ecosystems and the enormous impact that the waste left by man has on their destruction and destruction."
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