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Iceberg Off Western Greenland Painted Red
By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press Writer

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - An artist with 780 gallons of red paint, three fire hoses and a 20-member crew at his disposal went to Greenland in search of a blank canvas large enough to accommodate his creative impulse.


The result is a blood-red iceberg now sitting off the country's western coast.


"We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to all us," Danish artist Marco Evaristti said Thursday. "This is my iceberg; it belongs to me."

Just how Greenlanders view his masterpiece isn't clear yet. There was no immediate reaction from authorities, who are generally very protective of their unspoiled environment.

Evaristti and his crew sailed in two ice breakers from the small town of Ilullissat, Greenland, on Wednesday, and zigzagged among icebergs for about 30 minutes before they found the perfect frozen canvas.

Working in minus 9 degree weather, it took about two hours for the 40-year-old artist to paint the exposed tip of the iceberg, a volume of nearly 10,000 square feet.

The team sprayed the iceberg with the same dye used to tint meat, diluted with sea water, Evaristti told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Ilullissat, which means "Icebergs" in Greenlandic.

The town of 4,000, a tourist destination because of its scenery, sits at the mouth of the Kangia fjord, which is 25 miles long and five miles wide.

The fjord is filled with hundreds of icebergs_ previously all of them white.

Evaristti, who was born in Chile, drew widespread attention — and disdain — when he displayed 10 working blenders filled with goldfish in a Danish gallery in 2000.

He invited guests to turn the devices on and someone did, grinding up a pair of goldfish.

The gallery director was tried on charges of animal cruelty, but acquitted.

Looks interesting, but is the paint toxic?
I'd worry that the paint pollutes the water, which isn't cool even in the name of art.

That's fucking awesome. I love people with such creative, innovative minds.

Incidentally, I have some odd fears, and fear of icebergs is one of them. While I can look at that pic for a few seconds, I can't look at icebergs for very long because the freak me the hell out. I think it is tied up in my fear of deep water or something, but icebergs give me a major case of the willies.

I read that article, totally awesome!

Somebody should go paint the St. Louis Arch plaid or something.

iiiinteresting. not sure if i like it or not.

the goldfish in the blender thing is

If it did, I'm sure this guy didn't care -- the end of the article says he made goldfish smoothies!

I would hope not. I don't know if its toxic or not.

..yeah, thats totally lame...I give the thumbs down to this, no matter what the symbolism is...

it says the paint was the dye they use to color meat. so i'm pretty sure it isnt toxic since we all ingest tons of that stuff

np: Toxic, Armand Van Helden mix

no kidding

speak for yourself!

i almost wrote "well, except sneha"

I don't like it.

Just because we eat it doesn't mean it isn't toxic, unfortunately. Red #40 is nasty stuff for your body.

i'm allergic to red 40 actually. i dont think thats the dye, though

[quote=doki doki]That's fucking awesome. I love people with such creative, innovative minds.

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yeah....i like the goldfish thing, kind of......


this is a little unrelated, but has anyone been to that one club in miami where inside their railing are mice running around? pooh told me about it and i wanted to see it but didn't.....

poor creativity in my book. Sometimes impossible art is best undone and this is a perfect example.

according to charlton heston, there is some sort of connection between soylent green and FD&C #40.....



[img] http://www.stomptokyo.com/img-m3/soylent-b.jpg [/img]

[img] http://www.fritzliess.com/movabletyp...lent_green.jpg [/img]

Environmental art that enhances the environment— Christo.

christo's stuff is amazing.

isamu noguchi has also done some very cool environmental art. (site specific sculpture gardens etc)

Christo, Central Park, February 2005. Can't wait!

Robert Irwin is another awesome installation/environmental artist--his show at Dia back in '98 gave me chills.

I propose a Rhythmism field trip to Dia Beacon this summer.

and then a 10 minute drive from there to barnstormer?

sorry, couldn't resist.

btw, i'm not digging the red iceberg. what is it showing, man's dominion over all of nature? even the purest things nature has can be despoiled with what looks like the blood on our hands?

it's sucky, and bad art.

I do not like this at all. there are so few landscapes that isn't already spoiled by mankind ...

furthermore, I don't see how just b/c he painted it red, this iceberg belongs to him now.

I'm very curious to see what Greenland's reaction will be.

I would love to kayak around the coast of Greenland..heard its amazing.

i like it

I would like to know who the people were that didn't mind blending up goldfish... that's really messed up.

I don't think I like the iceberg project... doesn't really do anything for me...

Went to his site in the article...

Not sure how I feel about this either...

oh YES!! let's do this. I got a big hippy van....roadtrip!

PS-Girlee will you be back in the city for the summer??

Barbies and swastikas=contemporary art cliches. Yay, let's put them together!

Iceberg=decently cool.

And yes, Miss Saisha, I'm moving back middle of June. I'm totally serious about Dia Beacon. Let's do it and eat BBQ after!

iceberg is cool... better get up there soon and paint yours tho... they'll all be taken...

Girlee is kewl.