L’artiste japonais Eiko Ishizawa a créé un sac de couchage ours, un sac dissuasif pour ne pas être dérangé la nuit intitulé « The Great Sleeping Bear ».
Il a été inspiré par l’ours Bruno, surnommé l’ours problématique, un plantigrade italien qui avait traversé la frontière allemande et a été abattu. Un abattage qui avait fait grand bruit en 2006 puisqu’il y avait 170 ans qu’il n’y avait plus d’ours en Allemagne.
L’artiste explique:
The news was about first wild bear appeared in Bavarian Alps since 170 years. He was called for two names, “ a problem bear” or “ Bruno”. He was originally habitant in the nature reserve in Italy. But he started to explore new lands, crossed a few borderlines of countries. This evoked huge discussion in public and government in Bavaria. One group loved this bear, but the other group was afraid and wanted him to be hunted. After some time of confusions, in the end, this bear was decided to be hunted down, and he was killed.
Within this tragic story, I was interested in such variations of emotions and perceptions that had determined the reality, and they are projected of on a single just bear, who just crossed the “borderlines” , wherein the animal worlds do not matter.
This story depicted for me what it means of “ crossing the borderlines”, which are metaphors of various borderlines like between nature and civilizations, being sane and insane, borderlines of countries.. etc.
With such thoughts, this work leaves hints of awarenesses that wheather things are truth or not, it is often depending on the consequences of being either minorities and majorities in our society.
By creating this work in a figure of a typical look of realistic “a bear” in the image of people, I wnated to recreate the starting point of illusion for the viewer who encounters with this work. In fact, the person who wears this work becomes together with a bear as one, there I wonder how the viewers will imagine the story.. : the hunter killed the bear and wearing the bear skin, the bear is eating a human, or just a huge bear is sleeping… Through this work, I would like to insert the fantasy and illusion in our reality.
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Plus dissuasif qu’un plaid pénis, voici quelques image de The Great Sleeping Bear:
(plus d’informations sur le site web de l’artiste ici et cargo collective pour commander là)
Toutes les photos: crédits Eiko Ishizawa .
Design animal moins effrayant, découvrez également ces fantastiques fauteuils paon par Marc Ange.