FORT PIERCE — Art inspired by the Ocean’s depths, “The Sinking World,” art exhibition will be visiting the region beginning Saturday, March 29, and will be on display through Saturday May 3. This exhibit is compliments of Sea-Life Habitat Improvement Project, Inc., the Navy UDT-SEAL Museum, the Arts Cultural Alliance of St. Lucie County and Reefmakers, Inc.
This unique exhibit by Austrian art photographer Andreas Franke consists of dozens of digitally composited images from the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a former Air Force missile tracking ship that was scuttled in May 2009 to become an artificial reef in the Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary and the USCG Mohawk, a historic WWII Coast Guard Cutter, which rests off the coast of Sanibel Island on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
“We are very excited to bring this work to the Treasure Coast,” says Andy Brady, President of SHIP, Inc. and the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Navy UDT- SEAL Museum. “SHIP is dedicated to deploying a large military ship off of the Treasure Coast as an artificial reef and is hopeful that when we obtain our ship that there is an historical tie to the Navy UDT- SEAL Museum. Projects such as the Vandenberg and Mohawk have proven to be successful for marine research, fishing and diving interests. The underwater gallery component is a unique way to demonstrate the awesome things that can develop with such a project and the positive economic impacts to a community has been well documented. In the United States, the Sinking World has only been on display in Key West, Fort Myers and New York City, to we are thrilled to be able to show this unique collection here on the Treasure Coast.”
With his project “The Sinking World,” Andreas Franke brings a strange, forgotten underwater world back to life and stages realms of an unprecedented kind. The resting giants at the bottom of the sea do not only form fascinating and unique backgrounds for Franke’s sceneries. They also constitute the best exhibition sites imaginable.
This lively, animate, secretive nothingness, this menacing, wild emptiness would haunt and seduce the renowned Austrian photographer and passionate diver Andreas Franke.
The community will have an opportunity to meet artist Andreas Franke on Saturday, March 29. He will be at the Navy UDT- SEAL Museum from 10-11:30 a.m., Island Images Noon-1 p.m. and the Port St. Lucie Civic Center from 2:30-3:30 p.m.
For more information contact April Price, (772) 285-1646, shipinc.slc@hotmail.com or go to www.SinkOurShip.org.
