In a new “artistic occupation zone”, the visual artist Bibi, who lives and works in Rieux-Minervois (11), has placed his red elephant in front of the Bourg-en-Bresse station, the prefecture of Ain.
The pachyderm is visible until July 31.
Red Elephant is a light intervention in Public Space. This giant totem is made up of 800 immediately identifiable recycled polyethylene cans. From a height of 5 meters, the Babar of thermoplastics is a new visual hallucination of Bibi’s Urban Bestiary.
“Yesterday the world dreamed of Pink Elephants, today they are red. Its green eyes challenge the public as they discover its new habitat: the Zoo des Villes. Red Elephant is at the same time a Light Object, a Plastic Art installation, a Toy Sculpture and a Modern Urban Myth” explains the artist.
Red Elephant has already visited Lyon, Shanghai, Montreal, Lausanne and Essen.
- The visual artist also recently installed another work in front of a selected audience: he installed his Lagoon fishduring a conference held at Ifremer in Sète at the end of June. “The Piscis Lagoena object is the combination of a fish skeleton and a plastic bottle of water, the fish’s lifeblood. By convergence or by spite, the fish has thus become a bottle, an image of transfigured Nature. A bitter metaphor for the anthropogenic toll”.
Photo credit: Bibi
