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Xavier Cortada, "The 150,000-year Journey," South Pole (2007).

 

 

 

 

 

 




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Art in Antarctica
 

"Xavier Cortada created a series of extensive installations on his Antarctic visit, focusing on the crucial element of time.  The Florida native cast an ice replica of a Mangrove seedling that is very slowly making its way over 150,000 years to the coastline.  In contrast, he marked the mere 50-year history of human presence at the South Pole with chronological flags stretching across the frozen land."

Lucy R. Lippard
 Weather Report exhibition catalog, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.

Xavier Cortada, The Markers, 2007 (The South Pole).
 

 

 


Xavier Cortada has been commissioned to create art for the White House, the World Bank, the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida Governor's Mansion, Miami City Hall, Miami-Dade County Hall, the Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Florida History and the South Pole Station.

In 2006-2007, the Miami artist was awarded a National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program residency. For more information visit www.cortada.com