Marco Evaristti

The work Brotherhood by Evaristti depicts an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman covered with blood.

Marco Evaristti (born 1963 in Santiago, Chile), is an artist who has lived in Denmark since the 1980s.^[1]

After studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Evaristti gained notoriety for a museum display entitled Helena in 2000 that featured ten functional blenders containing live goldfish. The display, at the Trapholt Art Museum in Kolding, Denmark, invited guests to turn on the blenders. This led to museum director Peter Meyer's being charged with and, later, acquitted of animal cruelty.^[2]

Evaristti's next major work, in 2004, entitled Ice Cube Project, was to paint the exposed tip of a small iceberg red. This took place on March 24, in Kangia fjord near Ilullissat, Greenland. With two icebreakers and a twenty-man crew, Evaristti used three fire hoses and 3,000 litres (790 US gallons) of paint to color the iceberg blood-red. The artist commented that, "We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to all of us."

On January 13, 2007, Evaristti hosted a dinner party for his most intimate friends. The main meal was agnolotti pasta that was topped with a meatball made with the artist's own fat, removed earlier in the year in a liposuction operation.^[3]

On June 8, 2007, Evaristti draped the peak of Mont Blanc in France with red fabric, along with a 20 foot pole with a flag reading "Pink State". He was arrested and detained on June 6 for attempting to paint the peak red. His aim is to raise awareness of environmental degradation.^[4]

On January 27, 2010, Evaristti exhibited his artwork "Rolexgate" which is a model of the entrance gate to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. 80% of the model is made up of gold which comes from the teeth of Jews who died in the concentration camps. The model had been briefly exhibited in Berlin, but was removed because of the audience reaction.^[5]

See also

• Shock art

External links

• Marco Evaristti's official Website

References

1. ^ "Biography". evaristti.com. http://www.evaristti.com/iweb/-Biography.html. Retrieved 2008-10-27. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Liquidising goldfish 'not a crime'". BBC News. May 19, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3040891.stm. Retrieved 2009-03-12. 
3. ^ "Meal fried in artist's own body fat". news.com.au. 2007-01-13. http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/meal-fried-in-artists-own-body-fat/story-e6frflri-1111112825543. Retrieved 2008-10-27. 
4. ^ "Danish Artist Drapes Mont Blanc in Red". The Washington Post. 2007-06-08. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802937.html. Retrieved 2008-10-27. 
5. ^ "Description of "Rolexgate" on the artist's website". 2010-12-19. http://www.evaristti.com/index.php/essays/1-essays/9-rolexgate. Retrieved 2010-12-19. 

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