Dopo la Triennale di Milano e la Fondazione Cartier di Parigi anche alla Hayward Gallery di Londra si realizza un grande progetto dedicato al mondo delle piante, un tema che proprio in queste settimane di grandi incendi boschivi australiani, pare sempre più urgente e affascinante.
Col titolo "Among the Trees" gli spazi londinesi ospiteranno dal 4 Marzo al 17 Maggio 2020 una grande serie di eventi e un significativo progetto espositivo con alcuni degli artisti più noti.
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This exhibition brings together artworks that explore our relationships with trees and forests.
Beginning with pioneering works from the late 1960s – a decade that saw the emergence of the modern environmental movement – Among the Trees surveys a remarkably expansive artistic terrain, including sculpture, painting, installation, video and photography.
Drawing on the beauty and visually arresting character of trees – including their complex spatial and architectural forms – the works in this exhibition invites us to consider trees as symbols and living organisms that have helped to shape human civilisation.
By turns poetic, adventurous and thought-provoking, Among the Trees celebrates the tree’s enduring resonance as a source of inspiration for some of the most compelling contemporary artists of our time, among them Robert Adams, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Tacita Dean, Peter Doig, Anya Gallaccio, Giuseppe Penone, Robert Smithson and Pascale Marthine Tayou.
