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Regan Gentry

Because it is International Year of Forests 2011, the Rotterdam Center for the Arts (CBK) will be making a route along various art trees and monumental trees in Rotterdam. CBK asked artist Regan Gentry to create a special intervention along this route. Regan came up with the idea to show how special a tree is, by wrapping it in a protective wooden ‘coat’. Normally, this protection has only a height of 2m and is meant to protect the tree during works. Gentry however wants to protect the tree in it’s entirety. The tree wrapped by Regan Gentry can be seen on the Heemraadsplein from beginning of June.

Since it is International Year of Forests 2011, this art tree idea comes from a worldwide art and design project called ‘Make a Forest’, for which artists, designers, students and other creatives are invited by art institutions to make an art tree. Every art tree hence contributes to one world wide art forest and draws attention to deforestation any where in the world. Mothership acted as curator and producer