South Beach
Xavier Cortada's "The
Reclamation Project"
Blueprint
Directory: Art + Design + Architecture, The Art Issue (Volume 2, Number 4,
page 32), November-December 2006
Miami
artist Xavier Cortada has made a number of public and large-scale
installations, including an actual, colorfully painted plane, a wall of
remembrances, and a fridge with leftover food. Now he will recreate
an "eco-art" intervention with little mangrove shoots "planted" all over
South Beach. About 2,500 mangrove seedlings in clear cups will be
displayed in shop windows, dramatizing the destruction of the mangrove
forests which once covered the island and sustained marine life.
With the help of volunteers (and public arts and eco groups backing the
project), those seedlings will be planted for real on Key Biscayne on
December 17. November through January.
Volunteers can sign up online at
www.reclamationproject.net