aarrttooss - Nicolas Salagnac

ARTO S
Polar
bear
warming.
has
The
become
future
an
of
alert
the
symbol
planet
is
for
at
the
stake
fight
at
against
the
UN
global
climate
conference in Le Bourget. It is taking action against global warming,
and climate disruptions.
The clock is ticking for the planet, submitted to global warming, it is
quite urgent to take decisions, while the melting of ice is pushing up
sea levels up by three millimeters each year. That means hundreds of
tons of ice melt each hundredth of a second in the world.
We have this unique opportunity to act now. Otherwise we will have to
teach polar bear how to climb on trees
.
During the cop21 or even more generally, many events are held to warm
the public and the politics about to the causes of global warming.
A
Greenpeace
dressed
bear
on
as
the
activist
a
polar
Moskva
river in front of
Kremlin
to
the
protest
against oil exploration
in the Arctic ocean.
Those twelve ice blocks were cut out of icebergs floating in
a fjord near Nuuk, The capital of Greenland. They were sent
by boat to the city of Aalborg, (Northern Denmark), to be
installed in the form of a clock (face).
The huge monumental sculpture of 10.5 meters
long
by
impaled
6
meters
on
accumulation
high
a
in
curve
the
shows
a
polar
bear
symbolizing
atmosphere
brom
CO2
pre-
industrial times to these days. Directed by Jens
Galschiot a Danish artist.
The melted in the sun ice cream truck is a work
from "Glue Society" association, traking part of the
event
"By
the
Sea",
an
beach of Sydney Australia.
annual
exhibition
on
the
Ours polaire par F ra n ço i s P o m p o n
(1 855-1 933)
Bronze à patine noire mate
Polar Bears by F ra n ço i s P o m p o n
(1 855-1 933)
Matt Black patina bronze
Ours polaire (1 905-1 980)
par D u q u e n n e - Ch a rl e s Le m a n ce a u
Céramique craquelé
Polar Bears (1 905-1 980)
by D u q u e n n e - Ch a rl e s Le m a n ce a u
Crackled ceramic
The polar bear marked popular culture as Knut, or
Iorek Byrnison in the novels "The Golden Compass."
But he also influenced many artists.
Ourse polaire par B e rn a rd Re b a u d e t
(1 949)
Bronze patiné
Ourse polaire par B e rn a rd Re b a u d e t
(1 949)
Patina bronze
I
have
medal.
chosen
to
On
picture
the
draw
on
wee
a
photo
can
to
see
create
a
the
polar
chape
bear
on
of
a
my
small
iceberg. I decided to take this picture because it allows us to play
down the "media complex" about global warming.
On this side we can see
the bear on the iceberg.
He
looks
other
gone,
at
side
us,
the
nothing
remains,
but
On
bear
but
it
the
is
is
ice
also
not likely to disappear.