The imprint of climate change on art
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The imprint of climate change on art

New Indian Express  

Climate change is a global crisis having profound social, economic and environmental impact all over the world. As we are faced with the ramifications of the climate crisis resulting in temperatures soaring high, decaying coral reefs, diminishing green cover, weather change across continents among many other issues, it is imperative to take a step towards a more sustainable future before the consequences becomes irreversible. Understanding the severity of climate change, art across all realms, from traditional to contemporary, have, in some way, started a dialogue on environmental crisis heralding its integration into public discourses. An increasing trend in recent years has shown a change in visual language of traditional art often inculcating themes of environmental degradation and loss. Engagement with climate change traverses all boundaries of art; independent art festivals such as the Kochi-Muziris Biennale have also provided a platform for artists to explore the current situation through community art projects, public installations and curated exhibitions.

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Winter art and the Bengal Biennale
3 months ago

Winter art and the Bengal Biennale

The Hindu  

Director and curator Siddharth Sivakumar and Trustees Malvika Banerjee and Jeet Banerjee’s Gameplan have launched the first- ever Bengal Biennale, a multigenerational tapestry of artistic expression, bringing together a diverse array of artists and their unique perspectives. The event this winter, to be held across two venues — the university town of Santiniketan from November 29 to December 22, 2024, …

Protest is everywhere. But climate activists have the monopoly on art — for now
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Protest is everywhere. But climate activists have the monopoly on art — for now

LA Times  

Eighteen months later, Anna Holland still can’t stomach the smell of tomato soup. “I can’t have a tin of it anymore,” said the climate activist, who shocked the art world — and much of the rest of the planet — by throwing Heinz Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in the National Gallery in London in October 2022. It gets …

Art Special 2024: Thukral and Tagra’s green mission
1 year, 1 month ago

Art Special 2024: Thukral and Tagra’s green mission

Live Mint  

For the last two decades, artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra, collectively known as Thukral and Tagra, have worked on projects that focus on everything from consumer culture to social issues. Their latest work as curators will see them bring art, science, policymaking and climate action together, collaborating with policy research institute and think tank Council on Energy, Environment and …

Art diary: Following footprints of art to raise climate concerns
1 year, 10 months ago

Art diary: Following footprints of art to raise climate concerns

Hindustan Times  

Delhi’s weather is on a constant mood swing, as is the case with many other places across the world. Titled Limousine, this group show has works of 32 artists created in varied mediums, to display the creators’ concern about climate change. Artist Subhashish Datta cites human greed as one of the major causes of the world’s declining climate quality. That …

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023 | Will Kochi tell a different story?
2 years, 3 months ago

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023 | Will Kochi tell a different story?

The Hindu  

Away from the cacophonous chorus of heavily corporatised art festivals, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale hopes to return after three pandemic-ridden years to its foundational purpose: to give back to people their real stories, their strengths, their songs. A biennale isn’t just a collection of artworks, it can be sharing of ethos, of ways to make and survive, even flourish, and of …

Artistic plea for climate action
2 years, 4 months ago

Artistic plea for climate action

New Indian Express  

In the second segment, one noticed works by artists who have displayed a distinct lack of concern about the impact our way of life has on the planet. Here, we viewed Ahmedabad-based Sanjay Chitara’s textile art of Mata ni Pachedi, in which artists use the central motif of the goddess alongside natural motifs like animals, trees, river, etc. In Sanjay’s …

19 artists respond to the climate crisis
2 years, 4 months ago

19 artists respond to the climate crisis

Live Mint  

At the Ojas Art Gallery, in Delhi, a work by artist Gopa Trivedi catches the eye. Trivedi is one of the 19 contemporary and indigenous artists to have responded to the theme of climate crisis as part of the exhibition, ‘Echoes of the Land: Art Bears Witness to a Changing Planet’. Organised by the Sarmaya Arts Foundation in collaboration with …

How dystopias can save the world
2 years, 11 months ago

How dystopias can save the world

BBC  

How dystopias can save the world Donovan Quintero/Weinberg/Newton Gallery Donovan Quintero's photos reveal the impacts of climate change on Navajo communities A new exhibition 'mingles the jolt of the dystopian with the lure of beauty', writes Diane Cole. Photography by Evan Jenkins Monument by Regan Rosberg combines black plastic with moss and orchids to startling effect Monument, the show's centrepiece, …

Art against climate change
4 years ago

Art against climate change

Live Mint  

Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, a Goodwill ambassador with UNDP Climate Action, is famous for his many installations that revolve around climate change. Naziha Mestaoui, a Belgo-Tunisian artist who died earlier this year, created an art installation called One Beat, One Tree which she presented at the 21st UN climate conference in Paris in December 2015. According to an obituary …

Art against climate change
4 years ago

Art against climate change

Live Mint  

Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, a Goodwill ambassador with UNDP Climate Action, is famous for his many installations that revolve around climate change. Naziha Mestaoui, a Belgo-Tunisian artist who died earlier this year, created an art installation called One Beat, One Tree which she presented at the 21st UN climate conference in Paris in December 2015. According to an obituary …

A winter without the Kochi Biennale: Despite loss of serendipity, a meaningful engagement with post-COVID era
4 years, 4 months ago

A winter without the Kochi Biennale: Despite loss of serendipity, a meaningful engagement with post-COVID era

Firstpost  

Unlike the predictable compactness of exhibitions at galleries and museums, a biennale is known for its emphasis on the sheer monumentality of exhibiting spaces; its publicness; its site-specificity, and the often blurring of demarcations between the artworks, the physical spaces that the works inhabit, and the viewers. That it is not as easily navigable as the art spaces of bigger …

With Climate Change as Theme, Artists are Trying to Reduce Environmental Impact From Their Creations
4 years, 4 months ago

With Climate Change as Theme, Artists are Trying to Reduce Environmental Impact From Their Creations

News 18  

As climate change becomes a major theme for many artists, art and culture professionals are asking themselves tough questions about their own environmental impact. Among them is The Gallery Climate Coalition, a new organization which wants the art world to reduce its carbon footprint by 50 percent over the next ten years. The Coalition’s website also offers other resources relating …

Earth Day at 50: The best ways to change the world
4 years, 11 months ago

Earth Day at 50: The best ways to change the world

BBC  

Earth Day at 50: The best ways to change the world Michael Pinsky/ Thor Nielsen/Cape Farewell Artist Michael Pinsky’s Pollution Pods recreate the air quality and chemical make-up of five cities, bringing smog into geodesic domes Campaigners recognise that often the most effective way to tackle climate change is through our emotions – something artists can tap into, writes Gaia …

How art deals with disaster, from Guernica to the climate crisis
5 years, 7 months ago

How art deals with disaster, from Guernica to the climate crisis

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Artist Takashi Murakami is CNN Style’s latest guest editor. In her 2003 essay on photography, “Regarding the Pain of Others,” Susan Sontag recognized that art´s claim to moral purpose relates to our proximity to the event, but also our own capacity for action or inaction – whether seeing others’ suffering will rouse us to the indignation and action, …

Venice Biennale inspires deep thoughts on political issues
5 years, 10 months ago

Venice Biennale inspires deep thoughts on political issues

Associated Press  

VENICE, Italy — Fake news. Yet, Rugoff notes, “it’s had a presence in political discourse ever since.” Rugoff says contemporary art is particularly effective at unpacking the present-day specter of never-ending crises, by revealing complexity, ambiguity and conflicting emotions in a way that more traditional media often do not. It really exists in contemporary art,” Rugoff said on a preview …

A poetic symphony
5 years, 10 months ago

A poetic symphony

Deccan Chronicle  

We’ve all seen environmentalists, nature lovers and others hosting campaigns and spreading awareness about saving the earth from succumbing to climate change. Aditya Garg, writer and theatre artiste for the play Under Pressure explains why he chose climate change as their theme, “The world has been aware of the issue of climate change from decades but the movement never quite …

8 Artists Taking On The Big Global Challenge: Climate Change
6 years, 6 months ago

8 Artists Taking On The Big Global Challenge: Climate Change

Huff Post  

Increasingly, artists are trying to use their work to beat back a sense of apathy and inaction, to visualize the effects and threats of climate change. It is my hope that this encounter and the feelings it evokes can spur action and move worlds.” ‘Unmoored,’ Mel Chin Pedestrians walk past artist Mel Chin's mixed reality climate change themed art installation, …

8 ways architects and artists are fighting climate change
7 years, 3 months ago

8 ways architects and artists are fighting climate change

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Beatrice Galilee is the Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I see architects working with rocket scientists to invent new types of power plants, and artists collaborating with NASA to take spectacular photographs of fast-melting ice caps. Video Ad Feedback Inside Bjarke Ingels' ski slope power plant 07:51 - Source: …

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