Marco Evaristti's Ice Cube Project.

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on July 13, 2006 at 7:17 pm


Artist Marco Evaristti needed 790 gallons (3,000 liters) of red paint, three fire hoses, two icebrakers, a twenty-man crew, and two hours to paint an iceberg in the Ilulissat Fiord, Greenland in 2004.

Evaristti said: "It’s so poetic, it looks like a red pea"

Link | Marco’s website


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18 comments to "Marco Evaristti's Ice Cube Project."

  1. Simon7
    July 13th, 2006 at 7:55 pm

    Whilst this is cool - I really hope that red gloop is biodegradable & non-toxic.

  2. catsav
    July 13th, 2006 at 9:53 pm

    One could acomplish the same effect in 7.9 minutes with a one-man crew and a PMS 1797 swatch in Photoshop. 100% eco-friendly.

  3. jojo
    July 13th, 2006 at 10:12 pm

    this makes me sick, so some art maggot can use some red paint to deface an iceberg, what's the point? i don't care what this person's "vision" is, but we are
    so beyond this artistically. one word, boring and
    too late.

  4. donna
    July 13th, 2006 at 10:54 pm

    Damn it. Now we're going to have pink polar bears....

  5. L
    July 14th, 2006 at 1:34 am

    A red PEA? Or red PEE (akin to yellow snow, perhaps)?
    I guess I just don't get modern art.

  6. Gabi
    July 14th, 2006 at 4:26 am

    It's as if this kind of "artist" thought that nature wasn't beautiful enough itself.
    It reminds me of the seal killing http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/seal.html

  7. Alli
    July 14th, 2006 at 10:34 am

    I feel the same way, was there nothing more environmentally friendly than paint available. *Shakes head*

  8. Man
    July 15th, 2006 at 12:17 am

    Dear Marco,
    Why didn't you paint your eye balls green?
    Why didn't you bleach your tougne white? or simply boil it till off-white?
    Why didn't you mutate your skull (not your hairstyle)?
    Or, why not mummify your manhood?
    And of course, exempt yourself from medical care when enjoying any of these funs.

  9. Dj Estilo
    July 15th, 2006 at 11:52 pm

    I agree what some one had stated before this can be done if photoshop 2 minutes top ... better too

  10. pld
    July 16th, 2006 at 12:45 am

    yeah, that seal killing site is pretty cool

  11. Kil
    July 16th, 2006 at 1:50 am

    This guy is what we call a "wannabe". That's not f---in art. That's a waste of time and a cry for attention. His site sucks balls too. Lemme guess, he ordered a "learn how to draw" video from TV and stamped himself an artist? LMAO

  12. Ted
    July 16th, 2006 at 4:34 pm

    There's one artist I'd gladly see starve.
    Web site seemed a little inane. Don't know if it was the broken English, or the silly concepts. I think the silly concepts.

  13. Ron
    July 20th, 2006 at 5:46 pm

    This reaction is all a part of what the art is.

  14. Catpaw
    July 24th, 2006 at 10:09 pm

    I hear that argument about art provoking thought all the time, but if you're conscious and aware, everything provokes thought. And really conscious work provokes consiousness. I think art is grace and it needs to be as rich a deifnition and interpretation as we inwardly demand from corporations, health care workers...and ourselves. That is not art...I saw someone scatter animal bones and call it art. If they were the bones of someone's you knew and cared about, it would not be art. There are more important things to think about...if art provokes thought, maybe people should consider what thought's need provoking. There are so many! I mean this caringly.

  15. The Pit Bull
    September 22nd, 2006 at 4:39 pm

    I think it would have been better painted white....

  16. Leslie
    January 17th, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    I hope that the paint does not hurt or harm the animals in the icy waters. Otherwize, it is a spectacular scene. I wonder what it looks like from the air?

    Zip, zip...dot dot dot, spanga spanga, spoodle de doo.

    LOVE,
    GRANNY.

  17. Simon
    October 2nd, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    I agree with catsav (see post #2). Photoshop could achieve this pic. I suppose witnessing this disturbance of nature in the flesh may have seemed impressive at the time, but what extreme insensitivity to the current world climate + concern at the environmental abuse of basically dumping toxins in a prestine environment. If I found an endangered snow leopard and killed it and posted a pic, would that be art? No. I'd just be something that rhymes with 'Anchor'. And that is what this guy essentially is. W-----. This is not art.

  18. force
    October 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    seriously, you put paint on something that the world is trying to save. i agree with #2 - do it in photoshop next time. being artsy just to be artsy...stupid.


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