{"id":10612,"date":"2020-03-15T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10612"},"modified":"2020-04-27T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:50:59","slug":"deluging-le-louvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/15\/deluging-le-louvre\/","title":{"rendered":"Deluging Le Louvre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Artist\u2019s Vivid, Consciousness-Raising Video of a Flooded Louvre Is a Hit at the Armory Show. Here\u2019s How He Did It<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The chilling video speaks to the impending dangers of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Sarah Cascone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i-nXuXKgrjk&feature=emb_logo\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The video shows a disaster: water rushing into a gallery, washing across the floor and rapidly rising in a room of Old Master canvases. The Louvre<\/a>, one of the hallowed halls of Western civilization, is flooding. But despite the increasing number of extreme weather events caused by climate change, the video is only a work of art, depicting an event that hasn\u2019t happened at the Paris musuem\u2014but someday could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAbout two years ago, the Louvre actually got flooded by the Seine,\u201d Alfred Kornfeld of Berlin\u2019s Galerie Kornfeld, told Artnet News. \u201cIt was the result of very, very heavy rain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time,\u00a0the museum closed its lower level as a precautionary measure<\/a>, relocating some 35,000 works to higher ground. Nothing was damaged, but Georgian artist\u00a0Tezi Gabunia<\/a>\u00a0couldn\u2019t help imagining the worst. Her work,\u00a0Breaking News: The Flooding of the Louvre,<\/em>\u00a0is a warning, both of the dangers of climate change, a force already unleashed on the world, and of the evils of fake news and the dissemination of misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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