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Tue Greenfort (Denmark, 1973) |
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Tue Greenfort’s work investigates the cultural and economic dynamics that condition the relationship between man and the environment. Overtly anti-ideological, his works appear as anti-rhetorical models of criticism, which are reworked each time on the basis of the specific characteristics of the context in which the artist is operating. |
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Medusa, 2007
murano glass
431,8 x 264,16 x 127 cm
Private Collection
Courtesy Johann König Gallery, Berlino |
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At the 2007 Sharjah Biennial Greenfort raised the temperature of the exhibition rooms of the Sharjah Art Museum by two degrees, reducing the work of the air-conditioning. Using the money derived from the energy savings, the artist purchased a portion of rainforest in Ecuador. Again in 2007, at the Sculpture Project Münster, Greenfort used a tanker lorry to clean the surface water of a severely polluted reservoir by spraying it with a chemical substance capable of conveying the pollutants to the bed. The artist’s intention was to highlight the uselessness of certain environmental policies, aimed at fighting the consequences of pollution rather than the causes.
Due to the rise in temperature caused by climate change, water pollution and lack of natural enemies like turtles and tuna, whose numbers have been decimated by overfishing, the mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca), a jellyfish with a very painful sting, has found ideal breeding conditions in the Mediterranean, where constantly growing populations are forming. Tue Greenfort’s work, produced by CCCS for Green Platform, proposes several glass models of the pink jellyfish made by a small artisanal glassworks on the Venetian island of Murano. The artist thus hopes to bring to public attention the problem of the loss of biodiversity, which is fundamental for maintaining the equilibrium of the ecosystem. The battle against the proliferation of the mauve stinger, once sought and studied by natural history museums, constitutes the umpteenth attempt by man to combat the consequences of his bad behaviour without attacking the root of the problem.
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Medusa Swarm, 2009
seven Murano glass objects
variable dimensions
installation produced by CCCS, Florence
Courtesy the artist; Galerie Johann König, Berlin.
Photo Credit: CCCS, Firenze; Valentina Muscedra |
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