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THE FACE OF WATER

BY:
Petra Stelzmüller
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3. February 2025
Wasser, Petra Stelzmueller, Arcimboldo, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Entwurf, Veränderung, Tierportrait, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, achter Kontinent, Mikroplastik, Gesicht des Wassers, collage, ökologische Apokalypse, 400 Jahre Zeitspanne
Wasser, Petra Stelzmueller, Arcimboldo, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Entwurf, Veränderung, Tierportrait, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, achter Kontinent, Mikroplastik, Gesicht des Wassers, collage, ökologische Apokalypse, 400 Jahre Zeitspanne
Wasser, Petra Stelzmueller, Arcimboldo, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Entwurf, Veränderung, Tierportrait, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, achter Kontinent, Mikroplastik, Gesicht des Wassers, collage, ökologische Apokalypse, 400 Jahre Zeitspanne
Wasser, Petra Stelzmueller, Arcimboldo, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Entwurf, Veränderung, Tierportrait, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, achter Kontinent, Mikroplastik, Gesicht des Wassers, collage, ökologische Apokalypse, 400 Jahre Zeitspanne
Wasser, Petra Stelzmueller, Arcimboldo, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Entwurf, Veränderung, Tierportrait, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, achter Kontinent, Mikroplastik, Gesicht des Wassers, collage, ökologische Apokalypse, 400 Jahre Zeitspanne
Wasser, Petra Stelzmueller, Arcimboldo, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Entwurf, Veränderung, Tierportrait, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, achter Kontinent, Mikroplastik, Gesicht des Wassers, collage, ökologische Apokalypse, 400 Jahre Zeitspanne

1566
‘Water’ by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a portrait commissioned by Emperor Maximilian, evokes both astonishment and bewilderment in the viewer, as it consists almost exclusively of animals living in water. A total of 62 different animals, including mussels, fish and crabs, have been placed in place of noses, mouths, ears, eyes, eyebrows, etc., giving the impression of a human face and chest area.

2024
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a rubbish patch three times the size of France, also known as the eighth continent, is floating in the Pacific Ocean. It consists of vast quantities of plastic bottles, nets, sponges and the like, but above all of the resulting microplastics, which are mistakenly ingested by marine animals as food.

The collage ‘Face of Water’ not only clearly visualises the ecological apocalypse caused by objects floating in the water. It also clearly contrasts the abundance of fish and species in Arcimboldo’s time with the extinction of fish and species caused by foreign bodies floating in the water today.

Incidentally, there are over 400 years between these two pictures – the minimum time it takes for plastic to decompose.

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