Qatar Museum to Take away Dugong Sculpture on Corniche | Malayalam Information, Kerala Information, Political Information | Expression of Kerala

Doha: One of many principal sights amid the soccer World Cup hype in Qatar, the enormous dugong statue on the Doha Corniche is about to maneuver. The Qatar Museum has introduced that it’ll take away the 24-meter-high and 32-meter-long sculpture from the Corniche. Designed by American artist Jeff Koons, the big sculpture has been an attention grabbing sight in Doha’s Masra Park for a 12 months and a half. A sea cow (dugong) is a sort of mammal that lives within the sea. Dugongs first appeared within the seas of the Arabian Gulf about 7,500 years in the past. They’re vulnerable to extinction as a result of coastal air pollution and adjustments in marine habitats. The sculpture, modeled after an historic marine mammal that lived within the waters across the Qatar peninsula, was put in with the goal of offering an important visible expertise and enabling integration between Qatari tradition and the worldwide artwork scene. The second largest group of them on the earth is within the Qatar sea space. It’s reported that there are round 600-700 dugongs within the waters of the Gulf nations. The necessity to defend the ecosystem can be remembered when the instance of the declining species is introduced by means of an artwork kind. Greater than 40 installations by worldwide and native artists akin to Jeff Koons, Lebanese artist Simone Fattal, Yayoi Kusama, Shouk Al Mana and Shua Ali have been put in in numerous places from Souq Waqif in Doha concurrently the World Cup. Local weather change has brought on dugongs to lose their dignity.