Being creative in a greenhouse: art and global warming
The world, all at once, has become a small world. Not only owing to TV, satellites and the Internet that allow us to jump from side to side of our planet in a click. But also owing to a phenomenon that evokes dry lands, devastating rains, tsunamis and hurricanes, torrid summers and melting glaciers: global warming. In the heated argument on this issue with so many people talking, in the past few years also artists have made their rising voice be heard. Artists-popularisers, aware of their role and of the considerable communication potential of the art medium. Because “One salient image, sculpture or event can speak louder than volumes of scientific data”.
From Land art to the “global era”
In the globalisation era, arts have provided food for thought on “how latitudes became forms”, to stress again that now, at global level, …
Artists create new aesthetics to communicate new messages and new concerns. Apprehension about the climate, its changes, global warming and a disposition to …
Despite the developed world’s climate-controlled interiors and easy access to all kinds of fresh produce at any time of year, our lives are …
Artists have used the environment as a subject forever and there is a long history of artists whose works affect peoples’ awareness of …
In January 2006, my wife Susannah Sayler and I set out to photograph landscapes around the world that were being transformed by global …