Massive sculpture covers saplings with plastic bags

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This year's non-traditional gallery exhibits at Art Basel Unlimited include Pascale Marthine Tayou's Plastic Tree C.

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Artnet has background on the earlier work in the series, like Plastic Tree B, surrounded by plastic buckets with plants.

Tayou has previously exhibited at Galleria Continua, including Arbre à palabres (gathering tree), name for a large tree that forms the center of community life in his native Cameroon. That work incorporates the plastic-tree themes as well.

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