Video: Plastic animals in the fight for the environment
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Since 1983, huge multi-colored animals periodically appear in different parts of the world. Some of them crawl right out of the water, others are suspended between houses, like a special kind of washed linen. Made from used plastic bottles, they take places near landmarks and wait for people to remember the main law of predators - the struggle to survive - and begin to fight for their own future.
The idea of such installations belongs to the creative group Cracking Art Group, consisting of six people from Italy, France and Belgium. Concerned about environmental pollution, these people decided to attract the interest of the masses to environmental issues in a non-standard way, using contemporary art.
The use of plastic as a material, of course, is not accidental. On the one hand, this is a direct indication of environmental pollution. On the other hand, the authors argue, the creation of sculptures of animals from plastic is an emphasis on the close connection between the natural world and the artificial reality created by man.
Cracking Art Group's works include the March of Penguins across the Vltava River (Prague, Czech Republic, 2008); red dolphins floating in the air between houses in Treviso (Italy, 2006); huge crocodiles in one of the shopping centers in Belgium (2007); golden turtles crawling to the ground from the Venetian lagoon (Venice, Italy, 2001).
Interestingly, Cracking Art Group follows this rule in its own creativity in promoting environmental care and the need to recycle used materials. They do not throw away old sculptures (after all, this is harmful plastic!), But recycle them and create new installations from them. That's right: if you want to change something in this world, then you need to start with yourself.
You can see more photos and installations of the creative team on the website.
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