Marco Evaristti, the South American artist who is based in Copenhagen, poured red fruit dye into the Strokkur Geysir, found around 70 miles to the north east of Reykjavik, at dawn in Spring 2015. When they boiled, vibrant pink steam blew up from the ground as a result. Professing that ‘nature belongs to no one’, he did not seek permission from local authorities before the stunt. He was jailed for two weeks after landowners lambasted his efforts as ‘vandalism’.
Marco Evaristti, Iceland, 2015
At 04:30 AM on June 18, 2015, fountains across Denmark were coloured pink by artist Marco Evaristti, thus givng the country a gift to wake up to on Election Day – the day of celebrating democracy.
Marco Evaristti, Denmark, 2015
Quote from Evaristti.
Pink State is an art concept that took it´s beginning 10 years ago when Evaristti painted an iceberg in Greenland red. Since then he has transformed various unique pieces of Nature with his red fruit colour, marking the land, declaring it Pink State, thus letting Pink State materialize it self, even if just for as long as the colour stays.
What is Pink State then? Pink State is a state of mind, based on three values put down as some of the first articles in the state´s Constitution:
- be good to your self
- be good to others
- and be good to Nature
Pink State claims its territory, and just as soon backs away from it. The state is temporary – it lasts only as long as the colour it self.
Previous Pink States are: