Giant Pink Snails To Invade Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH (CBS4) - The snails are coming, the snails are coming.
Beginning Monday, dozens of giant pink snails will be popping up all over Miami Beach including Lummus Park and the Venetian Causeway.
The 45 pink snails, each measuring eight feet tall by eleven feet long, are the brain child of an Italian art collective and a Rome-based gallery which hopes to spread environmental consciousness, according to CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald. Once in place the snails, which are made out of recycled plastic, will slowly be moved until they're all set in Collins Park in mid-December.
"The concept is the snail wants us to think about ourselves and they want to teach us something. We run, run, run but what are we reaching? What are our goals? We are destroying our planet," Gloria Porcella, co-owner of Galleria Ca' d'Oro, told the paper.
Porcella is opening a Coral Gables gallery on San Lorenzo Avenue in December.
The installation, which will be on Miami Beach through January 3, is meant to coincide with Art Basel and the opening of Porcella's Gables gallery.
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