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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Christine and Margaret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals

Christine and Margaret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals

Wertheim, Christine
Wertheim, Margaret
Kittelmann, Udo

Hardcover

CrochetingGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 386832688X
ISBN13: 9783868326888
Publisher: Wienand Verlag
Published: Aug 30 2022
Pages: 233
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.20
Language: English

Documenting the internationally acclaimed collective craft project by the Wertheim sisters that brilliantly merges ecology, knitting, science and installation art

Australian-born, California-based sister artists Margaret and Christine Wertheim draw on a unique fusion of mathematics, marine biology, traditional handicraft methods and collective art practice to create large-scale coralline landscapes both beautiful and blighted. Responding to anthropogenic crisis, their soft sculptures and wall-mounted reliefs simulate living reefs using crochet techniques to mimic in yarn the curling, crenelated forms of actual marine organisms. Initiated in 2005, the Crochet Coral Reef project has been exhibited internationally. In addition to their own reefs, the Wertheims have collaborated with communities in 50 cities and countries to create local Satellite Reefs, to which more than 20,000 people have contributed, constituting one of the largest, longest running participatory art happenings on the planet.

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