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great pacific garbage patch Painting

Attilio Calloni

Italy

Painting, Marker on Canvas

Size: 11.8 W x 11.8 H x 1.6 D in

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The Pacific Trash Vortex, also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or simply plastic island, is a huge accumulation of floating trash (mostly plastic) located in the Pacific Ocean, approximately between 135 ° and the 155th meridian west and between the 35th and 42nd parallel north. Its extent is not known precisely: estimates range from 700,000 km² up to more than 10 million km² (i.e. from an area larger than the Iberian Peninsula to an area larger than the surface of the United States), or between 0.41% and 5.6% of the Pacific Ocean. Assessments obtained independently by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and the United States Navy estimate the total amount of plastic alone in the area to be a total of 3 million tons. American oceanographer Charles Moore believes the area could contain up to 100 million tons of debris. The accumulation was formed starting from the 80s, due to the incessant pollution by man and the action of the ocean current called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, which has a particular spiral movement clockwise, the center of this vortex is a relatively stationary region of the Pacific Ocean (this area is often referred to as the latitude of horses), which allows floating debris to clump together, forming a huge " cloud "of garbage present in the first layers of the ocean surface. This accumulation is informally referred to by several names, including Eastern Garbage Island or Pacific Trash Vortex. A similar floating debris patch of comparable density is also present in the Atlantic Ocean (called the "North Atlantic garbage patch"). Many animals such as turtles and birds die from plastic pollution, mainly due to its ingestion which can cause blockages or perforation of the digestive system.

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Painting:Marker on Canvas

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Size:11.8 W x 11.8 H x 1.6 D in

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My work is deeply influenced by issues related to ecology and the impact that pollution has on current changes facing the planet that hosts us. It is also a continuous research regarding the way of representing human emotions and their way of revealing themselves. It is proposed to develop an understandable language that expresses concepts beyond the aesthetic factor, and that leaves, in the observers, a trace, an emotion that can move consciences, which makes you reflect. In several works, there is, as the dominant message, a silent denunciation made, however, not of words, but of images, volumes and dimensions. In most of my works, I use advanced materials from other processes, simply because I find them suitable for the idea I had previously conceived: that it had created a storm within me. Scraps of any material, such as marble, cardboard, plastic film or cardboard, have a very strong attraction. Everything appears to me as a possibility and an opportunity for my purposes. Use daily experiences as a starting point and reconsider the perception of society. In my works, the influence of a graphic designer training is very evident, especially in sculpture; geometrically minimalist design and propensity to simplify by removing. Firm intention to regain possession of the instinctive part of ourselves, far from social tendencies and forcing. Perhaps, for this reason, love for African art, free from contamination; freeing the spirit in a pure, primordial state, diametrically opposed to the imitation of styles that we currently observe. My artistic path, from materials to disciplines, has always been accompanied by experimentation and the desire to leave behind the works of the past, which also means yesterday, and to reconstruct, in each work, a new analysis of our living identity. Attilio Calloni was born in Monza on 4/8/1963. His way of doing art, far from patterns, has already emerged from drawings made as a child. He attended the state art institute of Monza obtaining the diploma of master of art. He was a student of the architect and designer AG Fronzoni from whom he acquired the notions of essentiality 'in the forms found in his works. He has participated in group exhibitions: "artistic-mind and christmas in art. Every year he participates in a yacht design competition. Constant experimentation and versatility in the use of techniques: pencil, painting, sculpture and digital drawing. An absolute artistic totality.

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