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DUTY (Montreal, Quebec) 17 July 09 Completely tadpole!; A biologist disembarks in SAT to study mutant frogs as object of art (Isabel Paré)
They know the frogs of stoup, the frogs which want to become so big as beef, but frog as object of art? They would not straightaway have thought of it.
Burning wood Ballangée, shone, thought of it. For the American eco-artist and doctorant in biology in the University of Plymouth in United Kingdom, there was only one bound to be made to marry frog and art.
Crafty minds will say that an English biologist who disembarks in the country of "Frogs" to study "batrachian" malformations, it is shady. But the bio-artist in residence in the Society of technological arts (SAT), which opens its laboratory all summer long to the public, swears dedicate an unbounded admiration to these small animals since his bonus childhood.
After studies in arts in New York, the small boy who crossed his summers to be captured ouaouarons and tree frogs in his keepnet decided to make streams and marshes his studio of predilection. " Nature was always my shelter. When I studied art, I made exits on the ground with biologists and I developed a huge interest for biology and researches on frogs. Now, I try to interest people in the fate of frogs with the art which they inspire in me ", support Ballangée, who will poll the pools of the south of Quebec all summer long, in search of tadpoles and in frogs badly in.
Because the one who likes all that swarms about and frog is more specifically interested in the physical anomaly of the batrachian, particularly spread in Quebec and in News-England. Frogs in five legs, in the shapeless eye or frogs without legs: Ballangée harvests thousands of tadpoles - that they can besides see making breaststroke in its aquariums of SAT - to clarify the evil which afflicts his friends amphibians.
" They ignore the reason of this anomaly. Even if pollutants were often shown of the finger, other reasons are in game, notably of parasites and of insects which affect the normal development of the tadpoles. But what is more serious still, it is the general decline of the batrachian, that is a general indicator of deep changes in our environment ", supports Ballangée. And art, in all this? Having scanned the shapeless offshoots in the magnifier, Ballangée keeps them in a liquid which makes them translucent, then injects various colouring agents into their skeleton to put in an obvious place the supernumerary, shapeless or missing members. The mutant to technicolor is then photographed and digitized, crystallizing the threat which glides over the world amphibian. The prophecy of frogs
Artist by occupation, but biologist by passion, his researches were worth him the recognition of circles so artistic as scientific. These numerous plans drew attention of very respectable Audubon society, of BBC, and numerous scientific magazines. These cryptic photographs of batrachian neon blue were displayed on all continents, notably in the Armory Gallery de Central Park in New York, to the Peabody Natural History Museum and to Biennial of Venice of 2005, as part of plan Waterways.
" Idea is to move forward research on these kinds while nourishing my art. There is not clear border between my two occupations, it is a multiple-subject plan. For me, art is a manner of interesting people in phenomenon by touching them with pictures ", dixit the artist.
All summer long, Burning wood Ballangée will accept the public in its den with frogs, where the tadpoles, sooner or later, will become big. Artists and volunteers are even invited to leave in safari to stalk the frog-leopard or the frog-bull in trenches and streams of Montérégie.
During our passage, some artists crunched the portrait of a very rare tadpole albino who made of the surplace in its jar. " I am filming it, and I am going to use these pictures on the occasion of projection with VJ ", explains Nolwenn Gouezel, French journalist and video director.
Young persons of the camp of day organized by SAT as for them immortalized the future frogs on thin coating to draw an artistic plan. As they see it, the frogman is not the only one to be interested in the queens of the pond and it is not perhaps a chance if art rhymes with tadpole.
What will it happen of all this shady manoeuvres? " There will be a big exhibition, or rather a big happening at the end of September with projections, of pictures and of conferences. It will be a wholesale trade " frog party! " ", throws Ballangée, that they suspect practically of being an ex-frog, recycled in prince of eco-art following a wet kiss.
With the rainstorms which beat down on Quebec, it is holiday for the frog, and it is also holiday for Ballangée, that leaves by laughing fill its nets of swarming tadpoles.
Public laboratory of Bio-art
Society of technological arts (SAT)
1197, boul. Saint-Laurent
Opened every Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 13 h till 17 h, until September 12th





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