Les Suricates - Red, 2020

Mauro Corda  

- MEERKATS with Red barrel -
Edition "Art For All by Galerie Loft Paris"

2020, Painted cast metal,
H.16 x 6.5 x 6 cm, 530 grams,
Edition of 500 copies,
Signed and numbered,
Dim. of the box : 19 x 12,6 x 9 cm,
Certificate of authenticity included.
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About artwork
The wildlife and the animal kingdom have always been choice subjects for Mauro Corda.
To him the years 2000 have been an opportunity to perceive them as beings in mutation (The Cricket, 2013; Turtle-shark, 2017), since they are today submitted to great ecological and climatical crises due to Mankind. This interrogation on the undermining of the animal kingdom due man’s actions and the enormous disappearances of species is clearly portrayed in this 2008 work, Meerkat.
These three “desert sentinels”, in alert, find themselves stuck and coated in oil that is leaking from a barrel, as if forever stuck in time. This milestone work of art adapted for the "Art For All" collection reminds us of all the major stakes that tomorrow’s humanity will have to answer to: bioethics and our common responsibility in the preservation of the planet.