Climate change – in the news after release of a United Nations report – is a topic of significance for Spanish street artist Isaac Cordal. One of the best known of his cement sculpture installations is Waiting for Climate Change, created for the Château des Ducs de Bretagne in Nantes, France. He has also done installations with the same name along the Flemish coast.
Designed for the moat of the château, the 14 floating sculptures move with the wind and the water currents. Wearing business suit, impassive and blasé about the coming cataclysm – they absently watch the water level rise.
The works in France are larger (almost life size) than the tiny cement sculptures that Cordal has been making in his home studio and placing on European streets in an ongoing series called Cement Eclipses since 2006, to widespread acclaim. On the Flemish coast, he also took on climate change in a collection of miniature watchmen across 30 locations in nine municipalities in 2012.
The series in Belgium presented what he termed stereotypes of people confronting climate change in different ways.
This is a fascinating, increasingly popular street artist, who calls his works “interventions.” It’s well worth exploring his other topics on any of his sites.
For more images of Waiting for Climate Change in Belgium (Flemish Coast), go here.
For more on the French installation (with videos), go here.
Isaac Cordal’s main website, here.
His Flickr, here.
Categories: environmental art, Public Art
Canadian Art Junkie 
This is soo cool! Thank you so much for posting this, you just brought me back to reality, I gave you a shout out on fb/twitter by the way, I am lucid now, thank you.
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Well I’m thrilled you are enjoying these fabulous artists / and I very much appreciate your shout out. Keep on browsing and finding new talents here. It can be very rewarding!
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Reblogged this on landwow and commented:
A poignant example of art installations discussing the disturbingly blasé attitudes regarding the anticipated consequences of global climate change.
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I adore this!
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Isaac Cordal’s cement sculpture street art is some of the most exciting work that I have seen in years. Taking the art “off the wall” is captivating. The works in Chiapas Mexico are astounding. A strong conceptual vision taking the “dia de los Muertos” style figures to new levels of interest. Political art infused with humour always works. Love this work.
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Hi Vallalee – I so agree with you on the power of his work, and especially about his vision. He’s tenacious as well as talented.
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Reblogged this on Lesley Cox and commented:
doing a project using dolls… this caught my eye
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Reblogged this on Picasso Plate and commented:
Creepy! Thought-provoking!
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