When SuperGlue Collective first asked me to write a piece on nature and art I was a little bit lost on where to start. So much art has been made about, with, from nature in the recent decades. Eco-art, environmental art, earth art. How do we define it? Is it decolonising? Is it historical? Is …
Lessons from Gaia: the Recognition and Hope of Nature within the Urban Setting Read More »
The ways in which contemporary art has reflected the concept of ‘eco-’ can be observed through the various genres related to the ecological. The genres of eco-related art such as land art, environmental art, ecological art, ecofeminist art, crop art, and Ecovention have been classified and expressed differently according to each standard, as if similar. …
동시대미술이 ‘eco-‘의 개념을 어떻게 반영해왔는지는 이를 통해 파생된 다양한 갈래들을 통해 살펴볼수있다. Land art, environmental art, ecological art, ecofeminist art, crop art, Ecovention 등 eco의 개념을 반영한 동시대미술의 장르들은 비슷한듯 다르게, 각각 나름의 기준에따라 구분되어왔다. 자연을 이용하거나, 환경을 위한 인간의 행동을 촉구하거나, 자연과 인간을 동일화 시키거나, 생태계를 관망하고 관찰하거나 하는등의 다양하고도 세밀한 기준에따라 나뉘어져왔다. 그렇다면 이렇게 환경,자연,생태,서식 등의 …
I first discovered the work of Zurich based artist Anne-Laure Franchette through instagram. Later on, I had the opportunity to see her installation La tête et les Mains(2021) at the space TOPIC, Geneva. Whether through the screen or up close, what immediately struck me was the recurrent presence of small medallions made from colourful resin, …
Anne-Laure Franchette on the ecologies of urban spaces Read More »
Upon walking into Orfeo Tagiuri’s studio, a world of narratives unfolds unto you; excepts of his own thoughts and poems fill the wall, jostling for places with sketches, wood carvings and evidence of the post man. However, within this melee of creativity exists a flow state for the artist, a carefully curated vision of process …
Existing in balance; testing borderlines with Orfeo Tagiuri Read More »
The ways in which contemporary art has reflected the concept of ‘eco-’ can be observed through the various genres related to the ecological. The genres of eco-related art such as land art, environmental art, ecological art, ecofeminist art, crop art, and Ecovention have been classified and expressed differently according to each standard, as if similar. …
Eco-Art; the relationship between human and non-human Read More »