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Globetrotting
Elephantine tales
Volunteers use ropes to push an elephant, a 200 kg-replica of one of Hannibal’s elephant, by French artist Luc Dubost, on the Cavalla Pass, in the Maira Valley, near Cuneo and the French border, as part of an artistic project called “Not for highway use”. The artist and a team of volunteers started to carry the elephant from Larche in France in a bid to “create a kind of poetic remake of the strategic achievement of Hannibal”; Tourists hop on a mechanical elephant made of wood and steel as part of the artistic project “Les Machines de L'ile” (The Machines of the Isle) on the site of the former shipyards in Nantes, western France. The project, created by French artists Francois Delaroziere and Pierre Orefice, is at crossroads of Jules Verne’s “invented worlds”, of the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci, and of Nantes’ industrial history. AFP
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