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Tide
Tide/Gezeiten
Stuart Haygarth (*1966)
London 2018
flotsam from the British seaside in the entrance of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
10 million tons of plastic waste end up in the oceans every year. Mass products that serve to the convenience in our consumer society and are thrown away after use pollute the beaches and contaminate the one vital element for the survival of humans and animals: water. The luminous object "Tide" is to be understood against this depressing background. It was assembled from some 3,000 found objects that the artist Stuart Haygarth collected on English beaches, carefully cleaned, and sorted by size and colour, using them to create a sphere that takes the shape of the moon. The flotsam that was washed ashore at night by the tides is here tamed by the artist's hand to display order, symmetry, and beauty.
Over 500,000 objects are on display at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, demonstrating 4,000 years of human creativity and ingenuity, from antiquity to the present day. What will one day remain of our current culture? Mountains of plastic waste? At the entrance of the museum, the chandelier is meant not only to delight visitors but to encourage them to interact with nature responsibly.
Tide
Tide/Gezeiten
Stuart Haygarth (*1966)
London 2018
flotsam from the British seaside in the entrance of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
10 million tons of plastic waste end up in the oceans every year. Mass products that serve to the convenience in our consumer society and are thrown away after use pollute the beaches and contaminate the one vital element for the survival of humans and animals: water. The luminous object "Tide" is to be understood against this depressing background. It was assembled from some 3,000 found objects that the artist Stuart Haygarth collected on English beaches, carefully cleaned, and sorted by size and colour, using them to create a sphere that takes the shape of the moon. The flotsam that was washed ashore at night by the tides is here tamed by the artist's hand to display order, symmetry, and beauty.
Over 500,000 objects are on display at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, demonstrating 4,000 years of human creativity and ingenuity, from antiquity to the present day. What will one day remain of our current culture? Mountains of plastic waste? At the entrance of the museum, the chandelier is meant not only to delight visitors but to encourage them to interact with nature responsibly.