‘Anti-Ark’ installation art in El Segundo
Michael Sistig and his “Anti-Ark” installation piece in El Segundo. Photo by Gloria Plascencia The four shipping containers look as if they’d been washed ashore, left stranded after a mighty flood. Lying flat on one of them is an emaciated polar bear; on another, her legs crossed, a siren sits and gazes out to sea. We are led to believe that it was her song that lured the ship’s crew onto the treacherous, saw-toothed reefs that zigzag under the deceivingly calm surface of the ocean from Palos Verdes to Santa Monica. And then all of those huge containers dominoed overboard. “Anti-Ark” is the name of this installation piece, created by the young German artist Michael Sistig, currently an artist-in-residence at the recently opened El Segundo Museum of Art, which opened late last month. The museum – which bills itself as an art laboratory – commissioned the work from Sistig, and on a blustery recent Friday the four containers and the two sculptures were set in place – where they will remain for at least another week and possibly several more if the Coastal Commission follows the example of the City of El Segundo and gives them the green light. Michael Sistig and his Siren. Photo by…
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