We have been looking at the moon for millennia, not knowing what our planet looks like, until 1968, when humanity first came to see Earth floating in space with NASA’s Apollo 8 mission.Since then, our perception and understanding of the planet has changed forever.
An art installation that perfectly mimics planet Earth, in a three-dimensional setting, on a single scale. and which allows us to see the Earth as if from space, was suspended on Wednesday evening, at the entrance to the passage from Piata Unirii in Oradea.
The creation, named after the Greek name of the deity who personifies the Earth -Gaia- was brought by APTOR (Association for the Promotion of Tourism in Oradea and Region) for Oradea FestiFall, Oradea Autumn Festival, the most important and long-lived festival of the city.
The creator of this work is the British Luke Jerram, who since 1977 has been practicing sculptures and live art projects internationally. Jerram has created a series of extraordinary art projects that have moved and inspired people around the world, learning from every work of art and continually reinventing his artistic practices.
The work is 7 meters in diameter and offers 120 dpi, showing details captured by NASA satellites on Earth’s surface, being 1.8 million times smaller than real Earth.
The installation aims to create a sense of general effect, which was first described by the author Frank White in 1987. On the presentation page of the work, the author writes that, viewed from 211 m, -Gaia- is exactly as he would see. one person Earth on the Moon.
-Gaia- was only exhibited in the Liverpool Museum, where people stood in line to see it, and in central Hong Kong.
„I HOPE THAT -GAIA VISITORS- SEE THE EARTH AS IF IT WERE FROM SPACE; AN INCREDIBLE PLACE OF BEAUTY AND PRECIOUS. AN ECOSYSTEM THAT WE URGENTLY NEED TO TAKE CARE OF – OUR OWN HOUSE ”(LUKE JERRAM)
LINK: https://logopaper.com/2019/10/05/andrea-podaru-gaia-planeta-noastra-intr-un-cadru-tridimensional/
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