The
installation Plastic Bags occupies since last spring, the Hall of the
historic part of the MACRO - the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome,
interacting with the Odile Decq's architecture. This is the space for
free passage of MACRO, which is used by the locals to move from one
street to another district, just like a square from the global
village.
Plastic
Bags is a large installation shaped like a giant beehive, almost ten
meters high by the Cameroon artist Pascale Marthine Tayou. It is made
entirely from plastic bags that evoke in their simplicity, the many
stories of our daily lives. They offers a colorful critique of
capitalism, consumerism and widespread plastic pollution.
Everyday
objects, useful as insidious, the bags have become a symbol of the
growing globalization and consumerism, but also homelessness that
increasingly characterizes today's society, a central theme in the
artist's research.
But
the journey of these plastic bags was long. In 2012 the installation
was realized at
gare de Paris Saint Lazare with the collaboration of the people. The
work was in 2011 in Milan at Hangar Bicocca for the group exhibition
"Terre Vulnerabili", and even before at Queensland Art
Gallery of Brisbane, in Australia.
The
common denominator of his work is the idea of travel, not only
physical but also mental, that manifests itself as an ongoing
cultural and geographic displacement also in the choice of materials
(waste and rubble urban or everyday objects often coming from the
place where he is to work). The traveler for the artist is not only a
way of life, but also a psychological condition, meeting with
something else, able to subvert the social, the political, economic
and symbolic of our life: "It is a certainty that traveling is
the hope of meeting the magic that hides the mysteries of the
rational human being."
Plastic
Bags will be on exhibit at Macro through April 1, 2013.
More
info
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Pascale Marthine Tayou
website
MACRO
Photo
credit © Giorgio Benni/MACRO
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