‘Heritage’ invites us to think of multiculturalism, the 99 animals featured in this artwork are ideal but it is an impossible reality. The range of animals goes from tigers to deer, to pandas and kangaroos. The animals featured in heritage are ideal but are impossible, they are prey and predator. The artwork symbolizes tranquility and peace, the animals have been arranged in a way that there is no hierarchy, there is no leader. The only movement in this world of ideal is a drop of water, it’s haunting disturbance reminding us that this appealing environment cannot last, what would happen if these animals lifted their heads? However, some animals although appear more powerful, or even more worthy of power, they are all equal. They are all venerable, all frozen in time. The enormous waterhole makes the life-size animals look smaller than they really are.
‘Heritage”. Consisting of 99 life-sized replicas of animals, made from polystyrene and covered with …show more content…
Here he had the image of all animals from all over the world, gathered around this lake, drinking together. This is his image of Australia as a last paradise as it’s so far away from the rest of the world and is such a multicultural country- people flock from all around the world. He sees it as a utopia in space but, of course, it’s a mirage and a dream that can never be real in the world. It is creating a beautiful but a tragic image at the same time. Cai Guo-Qiang’s message was about multiculturalism, the animals featured are arranged in a way that symbolizes equality, there is no hierarchy. His meaning behind the artwork, however, is false, it is a mirage against what really would happen. In reality, his sculptures are predator and prey and cannot co-exist together, in the same way that Australia cannot be perfect and ideal to many as is perceived by
‘Heritage”. Consisting of 99 life-sized replicas of animals, made from polystyrene and covered with …show more content…
Here he had the image of all animals from all over the world, gathered around this lake, drinking together. This is his image of Australia as a last paradise as it’s so far away from the rest of the world and is such a multicultural country- people flock from all around the world. He sees it as a utopia in space but, of course, it’s a mirage and a dream that can never be real in the world. It is creating a beautiful but a tragic image at the same time. Cai Guo-Qiang’s message was about multiculturalism, the animals featured are arranged in a way that symbolizes equality, there is no hierarchy. His meaning behind the artwork, however, is false, it is a mirage against what really would happen. In reality, his sculptures are predator and prey and cannot co-exist together, in the same way that Australia cannot be perfect and ideal to many as is perceived by