Beast - mounting of one-ton heavy black concrete sculptures in famous places in twenty cities across Europe. The sculptures represent a pig in human clothes. The project has been called the biggest art happening in Europe. The purpose was, in an untraditional way, to focus on the increasing violence, intolerance, racism and persecution of minorities, that Europe witnessing these years.
The Silent death - a happening highlighting the absurdity of the global imbalance and the double standard of morallity in the western world. It was carried out during the UN's social summit in Copenhagen 1995. 750 figures of children(a total of 5 tons) were fettered to benches, lamp posts etc. all over the city. The figures were made of cloth and stuffed with gravel. Their size was like 3-9 year old children. They symbolized the 35.000, who die every day, because of hunger and lack of medicine, primarily in the poorest countries.
Rating: User: Galschiot 2007-10-26T08:23:26.873Z
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art | sculpture | copenhagen | children | medicine | death | aidoh |