The Blue Trees (Dimopoulos)
{{Short description|Artwork by Konstantin Dimopoulos}}
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The Blue Trees is a performance and installation artwork by the artist Konstantin Dimopoulos that uses a colour transformation to provoke discussion about global deforestation.{{cite news|url=https://www.wmur.com/article/blue-trees-art-installation-will-also-honor-teenager-killed-in-crash/23538546|title=Blue trees art installation will also honor teenager killed in crash|work=WMUR Manchester|first=Cherise|last=Leclerc|date=2018-09-30|access-date=2018-10-01}} The trunk and branches of live trees are coloured blue using a biologically safe natural pigment in water.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.5280.com/2017/04/downtown-denvers-trees-are-turning-blue-for-good-reason/|magazine=5280 Magazine|title=Downtown Denver's Trees Are Turning Blue For A Good Reason|first=Daliah|last=Singer|date=2017-04-25|access-date=2018-10-01}} It was first created in pilot form in Melbourne in 2005 and launched in March 2011 at the Vancouver Biennale, Canada.{{cite web |url=http://www.vancouverbiennale.com/sculptures_detail.php?sculptureID=2 |title=Artwork: The Blue Trees |accessdate=2011-08-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723211732/http://vancouverbiennale.com/sculptures_detail.php?sculptureID=2 |website=Vancouver Biennale 2009-2011| archivedate=2011-07-23 }} In 2015 ist was installed in Kuenzelsau at [https://kondimopoulos.com/thebluetrees/kunzelsau/ Ziehl-Abegg], in 2017 in Downtown Denver, and in 2018 the Currier Museum of Art commissioned a Manchester, New Hampshire installation of The Blue Trees that became the 24th installation of the artwork.{{cite news|url=http://www.unionleader.com/Katie-McQuaids-Scene-in-Manchester:-You-can-help-paint-the-town-blue-on-Sunday|title=Katie McQuaid's Scene in Manchester: You can help paint the town blue on Sunday|work=New Hampshire Union Leader|first=Katie|last=McQuaid|date=2018-09-18|access-date=2018-10-01}}