Open pit mine
by Emmanuel Henninger
- Printed in France
* UNE RÉDUCTION DE 15% s'applique aux communes de moins de 5 000 habitants.Contactez-nous pour bénéficier de cette remise.
* POUR TOUTES LES COMMUNES, une réduction de 10% s'applique automatiquement à partir de 3 expositions commandées.
Technique: Indian ink on paper.
Exhibition available in several formats.
One day in October 2019, Emmanuel Henninger simply left Mulhouse, carrying his bundle, leads and pencils, heading for Germany.
From his six-month journey, he brought back dozens of drawings on themes dear to him: untouched and mysterious nature (the Urwälder), the destructive action of man on it and the titanic forms that result. Salt mountain of Kali, open-cast mines of Hambach or Garzweiler, the meticulous Indian ink frescoes of Emmanuel Henninger detail like a scalpel the exploitation "to the bone" of the environment and show how humans desert the places of their crimes.
The Hambach open-cast lignite mine in North Rhine-Westphalia is responsible for the destruction of one of Germany's last primeval forests and is a fortiori responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions across Europe. Coal, used since prehistoric times in cave paintings and excavated for 2,000 years, has become, in less than 200 years, the symbol of the industrial and polluting era.
Whether extracted or burned, its exploitation has devastating effects on the environment and the global climate. Coal mining hinders the development of many local populations, who are faced with a false choice between employment and health.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
