Video: The art of lighting candles. The best installations from "Art For Earth"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A candle in the wind is a symbol of fragility and insecurity, but if you put together thousands of lighted candles and put some message with them, they gain strength. Traffic "Art For Earth"Organized and led by Jorge Puyol, he creates amazing installations around the world, outlining political or environmental issues with the soft glow of flickering candles.
RwandaOn April 7, 2009, an installation in the form of a candle flame and the word "hope" appeared in English and French at the National Stadium in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. This piece, consisting of 10,000 burning candles, was created by activists from Art For Earth to commemorate the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Argentina The Argentine city of Gualeguaychú and the Uruguayan Fray Bentos are opposite each other, separated by the Uruguay River. In 2003, the Finnish firm Botnia began building a timber processing plant on the Uruguayan coast, causing a long conflict between the two South American states. One of the forms of protest by the residents of Gualeguaychú, who are dissatisfied with the pollution of the environment with industrial waste, was a large-scale installation of burning candles, created on the banks of the river in 2008.
Giulio Lopez is a simple Argentine bricklayer who disappeared in 2006 after testifying against a police official accused of genocide. In collaboration with human rights groups, Art For Earth has created three candle installations on the 3-month, 18-month and 2-year anniversaries of Lopez's disappearance.
United KingdomThe installation in the form of a stylized candle and the words "Remember, reflect, react" was created in 2008 by order of the organization "Aegis Trust", which monitors cases of genocide today. The burning work was timed to coincide with the opening of a memorial at the Holocaust Center.
East TimorIn April 2007, East Timor held the first presidential elections since independence from Indonesia. In honor of this event, celebrations were held in the capital of the young state, the central event of which was a grandiose installation. Thirteen lines of lighted candles are located around the statue of the patron saint of East Timor: each line symbolized a separate region of the state.
AustraliaIn September 2007, volunteers from Hervey Bay, Australia, decided to express their negative attitude towards whale hunting. In protest, volunteers put up an installation of 5,000 candles in one of the fields in a suburban area.
Another environmental issue of concern to Australians is the threat of extinction of the Murray cod. It was her image that was laid out from candles in the next installation.
Another installation in Australia was created at the initiative of Keyser Traed, President of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, with the aim of raising public awareness of the situation in the Gaza Strip.
Joining forces with Greenpeace, Art For Earth has identified such a pressing issue as the use of non-traditional energy sources, creating an installation of three thousand candles in the city of Cairns.
The world record for the creation of the largest "burning" installation also belongs to Australia. A piece of 11,809 candles featuring the Amnesty International logo and the slogan “Stop Torture” was unveiled in Brisbane in 2006.
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