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The Twin Bottles art presented in Monte-Carlo

The Twin Bottles: Message in a Bottle, two large steel sculptures with the heart of an environmentalist, were presented today. The project The Twin Bottles: Message in a Bottle - sponsored by Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia - is a result of the encounter between the international sculptor Helidon Xhixha and the young Swiss photographer Giacomo "Jack" Braglia. United by the desire to launch an important message condemning the pollution of the seas due to the discarded plastic bottles, to give shape to their vision, the two artists decided to blend their artistic techniques - shaping steel and 3D photography - in designing a big environmental installation which produces, on a larger scale, two crushed bottles which float on the water's2surface and seem like a discarded waste; one modeled in stainless steel by the sculptor Helidon Xhixha and then mirror polished, the other draped with photographic images of plastic waste taken by the photographer Giacomo "Jack" Braglia. The Twin Bottles: Message in a Bottle, a site-specific environmental installation specially designed to remain in the water, but, at the same time, to tour due to its ability to adapt continuously to the environment in which it is hosted, in a reciprocal switch which