Museum of Contemporary Circumpolar Art (MCCA)
ObjectComposition (Sculpture )
Air, land and water - represented by a bird, a polar bear and a fish - are carried by a person as a backpack and thus illustrate man's responsibility towards nature and its habitats. The breast symbolizes fertility and success. The sculpture made in 2001, which balances on one foot, impressively conveys how difficult and fragile it is to maintain the balance between humans and nature.
Accession
2001.85
Object Type
Sculpture
Description
Composition
Production Year
2001
Production Location
Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Canada
Materials
Serpentine
Dimensions
H41 x W22 x D9 cm
Provenance
Dorset Fine Arts
Artist
Exhibitions
- Arctique, Pole d'Adventure (Manor Shopping Centres, Switzerland), 2008
- Shared Arctic (Palais des Nations, UNO, Geneva), 2007
- Shared Arctic (State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia), 2006
- Shared Arctic (Shemanovsky Museum and Exhibition Complex, Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets AO, Russia), 2006
- Inuit Art (Nordamerika Native Museum, Zurich, Switzerland), 2003
- Faces of the Arctic: Canada - Chukotka (State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia), 2002
- When art mirrors science (Polar2018, Davos, Switzerland), 2018
- Permanent Exhibition (Museum Cerny Inuit Collection, Bern, Switzerland), 2018
- Qanga (Musée cantonal d'archaeologie et histoire, Lausanne), 2022
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