Rosia Montana
When i think about landscape and enviroment i think about green, as a colour, but in this project i want to speak about red, cyanide red.
My main subject it is the Rosia Montana Mine Project, back home in romanians mountains.
This hystorical mine is living here since ancient romans times, and been primarely a village who`s main occupation was gold minning.
His heritage and hystorical importance it is really important and should be include in the international heritage of U.N.E.S.C.O, but unfortunently, there are different interests in this area.
An Canadian Group, called Gabriel Resources has managed to stop the minning in the ancient way, and formed a company witch want to transforme all the mountains around and the village of Rosia Montana in an huge open pit mine, the largest mining project in Europe who will damage the enviroment and the traditional roman myne and mountains surrounding.
I choose to do this project about the Rosia Montana, as a trully involved activist against this project witch i belive will ruine a traditional village, the first documentary attested for more the 2000 years and the surrounding nature.
For me my main issue will be the distance between me and the site so i choose to do somethinght on a canvas and take a picture in a near enviroment.
Since late august this year the romanian govenment approved a special law, who allow for a particullar company to make digging and exploatation in the area, thousands of romanians protests in the capital city Bucharest in the local community and world wide in european cities souch as London, Berlin, Paris.
Here it is a video from the Berlin protest in sunday 13 oct
Berlin Sunday
An article about the protests in London
An image realized by me on the London protests
A human chain made in front of the House of People, romanian government HQ, by the protesters
A Flash Mob in Lonon for Rosia Montana
A classic music concert played in the middle of protesters
A big marche of protesters
My main inspiring resources will be classic painting and contemporary photography projects.
The first painting it is the Romantique Goustave Courbet Painting, Un entrement a Ornans, roughly 1850,
3 by 6.6 meters.
Funeral at Ornans
This painting was made by Courbet after he participate at a familly member funeral, witch impress him, especiall the attitude of the people who take part in this event. He speak about dignity, natural behaviour and the human kind, he is impressed by the fact that mostly of the people were there just to make a presence act, not because they was involved somehow in that man`s life or that they regret his death.
Even the priest seems that he has just a role to play not a duty, his little helping childrens has different interest and even the dog it looking behind, actually we can not see the burried person, because the accent it is on the participants, really obvious, and the clothe choosed are black witch make a bigger contrast.
The funeral moment is near the sunshine, really dark, especially for this contrast, and the background it is real simple. We have also somethinght really special in the background, Christ on the cross, witch sits literraly on a side, like he is not involved in the event.
What impress me in this painting, his meaning, it is like a protest to the attitude, a reflective thinking, witch i want to use in my canvas painting, will be the slightly unsure position of this people, used in my painting more as a silohuette, and the cross, witch for me and the romanian culture it has special mening.
I will use the cross in my composition, as a church meaning, because the Romanian Orthodox Church has been the only one who made a viewpoint regarding this mining project, but they are not involved in any sort of protest or atittude, they basically made this viewpoint as a commercial atittude.
The big part of the canvas will be inspired from 2 pictures, one reflecting a village who is floating in the cyanide dom, made by a romanian photographer, Adrian Petrisor who reflect on the image of disaster and cyanide red colour
Rosia Montana church
The other image will be of a old copper mine near the Rosia Montana, witch was an open pit mine, made in the communist era, witch destroyed the enviroment and the mountain and live a big hole and a poluted lake
this is a image of who it looks now
I will try to use colour in a pure raw colour, especial red and green to highlight the importance of them,usually used as signs red as danger, green as a positive, to create a contrast and obviously using red as a danger warning and cyanide hazard.
