Author: Marco Casagrande
Project Manager: Nikita Wu
Case Officer: AdDa Zei / Casagrande Laboratory
Curator: Sandy Lo / Floating Islands
Measures: height 6 m during low tide, 3 m during high tide
Materials: Sand blasted stainless steel, solar powered light
Location: Kinmen, Taiwan, Republic of China
Completed: 2013
Author: Marco Casagrande
Project Manager: Nikita Wu
Case Officer: AdDa Zei / Casagrande Laboratory
Curator: Sandy Lo / Floating Islands
Measures: height 6 m during low tide, 3 m during high tide
Materials: Sand blasted stainless steel, solar powered light
Location: Kinmen, Taiwan, Republic of China
Completed: 2013
Marco Casagrande is the creator of ‘Oystermen’, a public environmental artwork in Kinmen, Taiwan. Located on a tidal shore along a tidal road connecting Great Kinmen to the little island towards Xiamen two fishermen lines, each side of the tidal road, welcome the visitors. The four freestanding sculptures – made of sand-blasted perforate stainless steel- stand 6 meters tall from the surface of the earth during low tide. During high tide, the lower half of the fishermen’s legs are submerged, appearing like regular men of 3 meters high, standing on the water. By time the legs will be covered by oysters.
The figures wear luminescent caps that are powered by solar light, illuminating the seascape at night.