Video: Canstruction: canned food sculptures to help the hungry
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It seems like something very strange and wild, but hundreds of millions of people around the world are malnourished, and tens of millions are starving. While there is a surplus of food in Western countries. It is in order for the West to share with Africa and Asia, and a charity project called Canstruction (a combination of the words "canned goods" and "construction") has been created.
In general, such a concept as Canstruction existed in the art world before. We have already talked about an unusual exhibition in New Jersey in the past, the exhibits of which were sculptures from empty cans. And this year an exhibition of the same name opened in New York, but the banks are full.
In one of the buildings of the World Financial Center in Manhattan, New York, an exhibition called Canstruction is being held throughout November (until the 22nd). Its organizers invited everyone to present sculptures made from canned food. Moreover, from full, unopened cans with a variety of products at the choice of artists.
This exhibition is dedicated to the problem of hunger on planet Earth. And any canned food that does not expire before November 22 will be donated to the office of City Harvest, a charity that organizes free canteens for the poor.
And the money collected during this exhibition as voluntary donations from their visitors will go to the fund of organizations dealing with the problem of combating hunger in the countries of the Third World.
As for the sculptures themselves presented at this exhibition, it should be noted their originality and symbolism. For example, the sculpture in the shape of a huge corncob is, of course, made from cans of canned corn, and the sculpture in the shape of a crab is from cans of crab meat.
But we can only guess what exactly is in the banks, from which sculptures in the form of an American football ball, a Greek temple and a portrait of Marilyn Monroe were created.
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