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Expedition Francka

Artist: 
Filip Van Dingenen & Annelies Vaneycken
Section: 
Art
In collaboration with: 
Provincie Vlaams Brabant
Published: 
February 2008

This publication reports about Filip Van Dingenen and Annelies Vaneycken travel to the French Pyrenees and Slovenia; an expedition in order to find out the story behind the article they read in a Belgian newspaper announcing the dead of Francka the bear. Francka was one of the six Slovene bears that were bought by France in order to enlarge the local bear community in the Pyrenees. The old, infertile bear Francka was not accepted by the local population and was killed 'accidently' in a car accident. The project deals with items such as migration, ecology versus economy and tourism,…

D/2008/12.643/1

Specifications: 

38 x 27 cm
24 Pages
Selfcover (journal)
Back & white Offset
Limited edition of 1000
Language: English

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Belgium: 7,30 euro (incl VAT & mail delivery)
Europe: 9,15 euro (incl VAT & mail delivery)
World: 10,9 euro (incl VAT & mail delivery)

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Expedition Francka