Giant Plastic Animals Appear Across Europe [Pics]
source: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/giant-plastic-animals-appear-across-europe/10134
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Created using recycled plastic bottles by Cracking Art Group, these animals represent the art collective’s strong social and environmental ethic while bringing accessible contemporary art to the masses.
In their efforts to divert toxic waste from harming the environment, the group also recycles its animals, reincarnating old installations into new artworks to be displayed around the world.
The art group, which consists of six members from Italy, France and Belgium, derived their name from the term used to describe the transformation of petroleum to plastic, called ‘catalytic cracking’. All six artists use the medium of plastic to give rise to their own interpretation of “our contemporary problems and tensions.”
“Cracking is the gap of the contemporary man, struggling between the primary naturalness and a future more and more artificial.”
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In their efforts to divert toxic waste from harming the environment, the group also recycles its animals, reincarnating old installations into new artworks to be displayed around the world.
The art group, which consists of six members from Italy, France and Belgium, derived their name from the term used to describe the transformation of petroleum to plastic, called ‘catalytic cracking’. All six artists use the medium of plastic to give rise to their own interpretation of “our contemporary problems and tensions.”
“Cracking is the gap of the contemporary man, struggling between the primary naturalness and a future more and more artificial.”
Please follow link for more pics (other locations and species)
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