As some of you know I am one of the rare people who loves pigeons …
Every once in a while I come across another person who feels the same way about pigeons as I do. This doesn’t happen very often, so I could not believe when I saw this funny art project of two Berlin based artists.
SOME PIGEONS ARE MORE EQUEL THAN OTHERS, is a project by Berlin-based artists Julian Charriere and Julius von Bismarck during the 2012 Venice Biennale.
Most people see city pigeons as a pest, or … as “rats of the sky”
In an effort to make people see these feathered critters in a different way Charriere and Bismarck spray-painted them by way of a specially created booth.
The artists believed that people would see the pigeons in these exotic colors as less offensive, and in turn, more accepted by those traveling the Venetian piazzas.
The website did not tell if this was indeed the case. By the way I like the red one …
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13threads // Nov 16, 2012 at 10:34
Sorry Marion, but this certainly makes me look at them in a different way! They look beautiful…and I think I recognise that quote…!!
Marion Pannekoek // Nov 16, 2012 at 10:46
I hoped you had forgotten … ha, ha!
Wish I had a pigeon paint machine, against the birds of prey!
Dawn of LaTouchables // Nov 19, 2012 at 21:37
Oh, Marion, this brought a smile to my face!