ausblick/kitekintés 18.:radical nature in london

Radical Nature–Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 19 Jun–18 Oct/09 Barbican Gallery London

The beauty and wonder of nature have provided inspiration for artists and architects for centuries. Since the 1960s, the increasingly evident degradation of the natural world and the effects of climate change have brought a new urgency to their responses. Radical Nature is the first exhibition to bring together key figures across different generations who have created utopian works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet.

Radical Nature draws on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism. The exhibition is designed as one fantastical landscape, with each piece introducing into the gallery space a dramatic portion of nature. Work by pioneering figures such as the architectural collective Ant Farm and visionary architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, artists Joseph Beuys , Agnes Denes , Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson are shown alongside pieces by a younger generation of practitioners including Heather and Ivan Morison, R&Sie(n) , Philippe Rahm architects and Simon Starling. Radical Nature also features specially commissioned and restaged historical installations, some of which are located in the outdoor spaces around the Barbican while a satellite project by the architectural collective EXYZT is situated off site.

http://barbican.org.uk/radical_nature/exhibition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNuid1_QI1s

re.act.feminism

" Performance art emerging in the 1960s and 70s was infused with ideas of social emancipation and fundamentally influenced by women artists interested in feminism. Performance art explored the intersection of art and life, of private and public. It offered an ideal medium for examining, deconstructing or reinventing (female) identity moving beyond attributions of femininity in mainstream culture. Moreover, as a new art form, occurring outside the confines of the traditional art space, performance was a medium for collective and social intervention in the public sphere. re.act.feminism provides an exemplary overview of gender-critical performance art and investigates its resonances in current artistic productions in the form of re-enactments, re-appropriations, new formulations or documentary and archival projects. "

re.act.feminism – performance art of the 1960s and 70s today
exhibition, video archive, live performances and conference
13.12.2008 – 8.2.2009
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
(U Hansaplatz, S Bellevue, Bus 106)

big nice german photograph in budapest

Thomas Ruff: Retrospective

December 13, 2008 - February 15, 2009
Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest MűcsarnokDózsa György út 37.

Opening: Friday, 12 December 2008, 7 p.m.Opening speech by: László F. Földényi aesthete, writer, critic
Curator: Zsolt Petrányi, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest is pleased to present the solo show of Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff's work is an encyclopaedic encapsulation of today's photography. His subjects extend from portraits to galaxies, from the micro- to the macrocosm. His approach is simultaneously scientific and political, while he is also sensitive to shifts in the approaches of contemporary visual culture. The techniques he has employed represent all major steps in the development of photography, including digital image making. His monumental enlargements are expressive lessons in the method, or what he calls the grammar of photography.
The digital world has turned everything that is related to images upside down. Photography as the most trustworthy representation of the world has lost some of its authenticity, because image manipulation in the media has compromised the portrayal of men, and even political documentation.
The issues Thomas Ruff's oeuvre explores are how a photographer in the digital age should deal with the deluge of images, and how the photographs spread and stored on the internet can be made to serve a lesson that throws a new light on the structure of visual culture. Thomas Ruff is a man who knows when to quit: when something proves outdated, he changes his methods and finds new ways for himself.
Műcsarnok's retrospective exhibition presents Ruff's oeuvre through his most important series to date: jpeg; Machines; Substrate; Nudes (ezt nem írták az okosok de Michel Houllebecq-vel adta ki a könyvet!!!!!!!); Portraits; Other Portraits; Nights; Newspaper Photographs; Stars, including the newest Zycels.

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