August 29, 2019 English news blog from the Algarve

Museum of Portimão receives a giant dolphin made of plastic

It was inaugurated today in the outer space of the Museum of Portimão, the sculpture “Listen to the ocean” by the artist B.J Boulter.

This is a piece that represents a dolphin about eight feet long, entirely built from the reuse of plastic waste. Portimão is a city of sea and therefore has a strong connection to maritime culture. Through this initiative it wants to draw attention to the need to protect the beauty and purity of the oceans, avoiding their degradation, and especially through plastic materials and packaging. These represent a real threat of extinction of many species of fish, crustaceans, mammals, turtles and reefs, for the pollution they cause and this sculpture, symbolizing one of these species, the dolphin, reminds us of the need not only to think but also to act every day to save the ocean, avoiding its contamination.

This sculpture came after a trip to Durban, South Africa, where B.J. Boulter was inspired by this project, remembering that he had observed “a beautiful and shocking sea” sprinkled with plastics. The artist stresses that work comes at a time when society is beginning to react to the idea that time is running out, and that something must be done about the environment. Currently, an average of 8 billion pounds is dumped per year and if this authentic environmental disaster is not caught it is estimated, according to the National Geographic Society, that by 2050 the plastic exceeds the weight of all fish in the sea.

The Museum of Portimão proposes a series of initiatives that began on June 6 with “AQUARIUS” by Brigitte von Humblot and will continue on August 24, with the inauguration of the exhibition “LUZ DE MULHER -SOROLLA 100 YEARS LATER “Through which 21 women, painters of Ayamonte, evoke the work” A Pesca do Atum “, painted in 1919 in that Spanish city by Joaquín Sorolla.

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