Stefano Cagol. Media Review ICE MELTING ICE Climate Change
MEDIA REVIEW, ICE MELTING ICE & CROSS IDENTITY
BRIXEN. Great media coverage of the monumental neon work "ICE MELTING ICE" by the Italian artist Stefano Cagol, which talks about the disappearance of glaciers, rebounded by the major international media: EURONEWS, TRT World News, TG 5, TG1 RAI, CBS New York.
The work is installed in the heart of the Alps in a symbolic and spectacular place: the confluence of two rivers, Rienza and Isarco. It is part of the Water Light Festival (until May 25th).
This ambitious installation, 15 meters long and 2 meters high, projected by Project Trento and featuring F/ART transformers.
EURONEWS: https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/13/w...
Brixen – The biggest light festival to be held in the Alps lit up the Italian town of Bressanone on Friday. Installations by 24 international artists on the theme of water turned the town into an open-air gallery, while highlighting the dangers of climate change.
Bressanone sits at the border with Austria, where the rivers Eisack and Rianz meet. Mountain water melting from glaciers is carried by the two rivers to the Dolomites
area, and is thus crucial to the ecosystem – but climate change is jeopardising this precious resource.
The Alps are beginning to experience extreme meteorological events, such as more frequent floods and avalanches, and according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
the melting of the snow is forcing animals to live higher and higher in the mountains.
Artist Stefano Cagol Rivers installed his neon sign reading "Ice melting ice" on the banks of one of the city's rivers, hoping that it will make people think about water.
He said: "These glaciers, they go, they go! Probably soon, I don't know, 100 years or something. And this is why I wanted to have this sign, with light in the middle of
these two rivers. To remember and think about."
Artworks displayed in the city also focused on the importance of the moon and the tides, and on the role of water in human history.
(By Euronews with Reuters. Video editor • Alexis Caraco)
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