“Pez Comeplásticos” (Fish Eating Plastic) by Javier Ternero, 2019
Paseo de Maritimo Torremolinos
El Bajondillo
Torremolinos, March 2024
“A huge iron and sheet metal fish, more than two meters high and four meters long, has been on the El Bajondillo promenade in Torremolinos for days. Its presence has caught the attention of tourists and neighbors, especially because its interior is full of plastic bottles, something that some have confused with an act of vandalism. Nothing could be further from the truth: this work by local artist Javier Ternero has been installed to raise awareness about the need to reduce pollution due to the use of products toxic to nature. The sculpture has been donated to the municipality by the Podemos assembly and was inaugurated last week. The stomach of this ‘Plastic Eater Fish’, as the work is called, remains full of non-biodegradable material to remember that plastic takes hundreds of years to decompose in the environment.” (The story of the enormous iron fish full of bottles in Torremolinos, Sur)
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