“The point of the installation is to raise awareness of the threat to Africa’s rhino population and to promote conservation. The installation is part of the City of Cape Town’s art54 public art programme which was launched in 2013. Eleven artists were selected to have their art displayed along the Promenade. ‘Rhinosaur’ is the brain child of André Carl van der Merwe.
“By the deconstruction, scattering and fragmentation of a two-dimensional image, I tried to illustrate the vulnerability of the species: the rhinoceros may soon only exist as a two-dimensional image, a memory made up of fragments or parts of our human record. A three-dimensional living animal is thus being reduced to a two-dimensional image, existing only in memory.”
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