Freitag, 2. Juli 2021
FPT INDUSTRIAL REINFORCES ITS COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CONTEMPORARY ART ON THE OCCASION OF SLOW FISH 2021
bodohann, 13:36h
The leading industrial engine manufacturer company introduces the sculpture Consider yourself as a guest (Cornucopia) by the artist Christian Holstad, an invitation to consider the importance of protecting the oceans and seas of the entire world.
FPT Industrial, brand of the CNH Industrial company and a leader in the industrial engine sector, confirms the great importance that it attaches to sustainability by becoming an official partner of Slow Fish 2021, a biennial cultural event dedicated to all aquatic ecosystems and their inhabitants, scheduled to take place in Genoa from Thursday, July 1 to Sunday, July 4, 2021.
In the framework of Slow Fish, FPT Industrial, which has always been active and had a specific commitment to caring for the sea ? exactly due to the importance that marine engine production possesses for the company ? will be introducing the sculpture Consider yourself as a guest (Cornucopia) designed by the American artist Christian Holstad (born in 1972 in Anaheim, California) in Piazza De Ferrari, in the heart of the city center.
This work of art, first introduced in 2019 at the Venice Biennale d?Arte and at Artissima in Turin, reproduces a large cornucopia, an ancient symbol of good fortune and abundance, completely made from plastic waste. The artist, whose work stands out for the particular attention that it pays to issues of consumption and its impact on the world, highlights the metaphor of this iconic image, which in this way, acquires an unprecedented negative meaning, that of ?excess?. This project poses itself as a consideration of the urgent need to deal with the pollution of the seas of the entire world, literally ?bringing to the surface? a problem that is absolutely timely and not leaving it hidden in the depths of the sea.
?A past neighbor had a sign on their door which read ?Consider yourself a gues?. I walked past it each day for years and it became an unintended mantra?, says Christian Holstad. ?Our dependence on plastics is not sustainable. Its effects are swelling into continents in our waters. Consider yourself as a guest (Cornucopia) is a reflection of our impact on the planet and our consumptive roles within the growing plastic mass?.
Consider yourself as a guest (Cornucopia) falls within a broad program of initiatives supported by FPT Industrial that focus on various macro-areas of intervention, including support for projects and communities involved in safeguarding the ecosystem through the adoption and conservation of sustainable and fair fishing and processing methods. In fact, Christian Holstad's structure is linked to the project ?Fishing for Plastic?, in which the company was a partner in 2019, which was devised in order to increase awareness for caring for the seas. This initiative included the involvement of 12 fishing boats from San Benedetto del Tronto, which, in a single day of work, ?fished out? 358 kilos of garbage from the sea, showing how necessary it is to disseminate good practices on this subject.
FPT Industrial, brand of the CNH Industrial company and a leader in the industrial engine sector, confirms the great importance that it attaches to sustainability by becoming an official partner of Slow Fish 2021, a biennial cultural event dedicated to all aquatic ecosystems and their inhabitants, scheduled to take place in Genoa from Thursday, July 1 to Sunday, July 4, 2021.
In the framework of Slow Fish, FPT Industrial, which has always been active and had a specific commitment to caring for the sea ? exactly due to the importance that marine engine production possesses for the company ? will be introducing the sculpture Consider yourself as a guest (Cornucopia) designed by the American artist Christian Holstad (born in 1972 in Anaheim, California) in Piazza De Ferrari, in the heart of the city center.
This work of art, first introduced in 2019 at the Venice Biennale d?Arte and at Artissima in Turin, reproduces a large cornucopia, an ancient symbol of good fortune and abundance, completely made from plastic waste. The artist, whose work stands out for the particular attention that it pays to issues of consumption and its impact on the world, highlights the metaphor of this iconic image, which in this way, acquires an unprecedented negative meaning, that of ?excess?. This project poses itself as a consideration of the urgent need to deal with the pollution of the seas of the entire world, literally ?bringing to the surface? a problem that is absolutely timely and not leaving it hidden in the depths of the sea.
?A past neighbor had a sign on their door which read ?Consider yourself a gues?. I walked past it each day for years and it became an unintended mantra?, says Christian Holstad. ?Our dependence on plastics is not sustainable. Its effects are swelling into continents in our waters. Consider yourself as a guest (Cornucopia) is a reflection of our impact on the planet and our consumptive roles within the growing plastic mass?.
Consider yourself as a guest (Cornucopia) falls within a broad program of initiatives supported by FPT Industrial that focus on various macro-areas of intervention, including support for projects and communities involved in safeguarding the ecosystem through the adoption and conservation of sustainable and fair fishing and processing methods. In fact, Christian Holstad's structure is linked to the project ?Fishing for Plastic?, in which the company was a partner in 2019, which was devised in order to increase awareness for caring for the seas. This initiative included the involvement of 12 fishing boats from San Benedetto del Tronto, which, in a single day of work, ?fished out? 358 kilos of garbage from the sea, showing how necessary it is to disseminate good practices on this subject.
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