This exhibit explores themes of environmental activism through artistic expression. It features artwork from 32 different artists, addressing various concerns the world faces due to climate change, and inspiring visitors to take action and reverse the trend.
This exhibit is organized by ecoartspace and endorsed by UNDP Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Program and UNEP.
UBS Art Gallery
How can art help us to engage with the most pressing issues of our time? "Reimagining: A Better World" is an exhibition set in our virtual UBS Art Gallery bringing together works from the UBS Art Collection that invite us to imagine a more sustainable future. While some are direct in their interpretation, others inspire reflection and contemplative thought about the fragility of the physical world in which we live.
Explore the exhibition here.
Edward Burtynsky: Water traces in intricate detail humanity’s complex relationship with the world’s most vital natural resource through large-scale photographs taken from 2007-2013. This fall, the American University Museum is featuring Water in its virtual series “Contested Space”, which highlights issues surrounding November’s presidential election.
This body of work documents the scale and impact of harnessing and consuming the world’s water supplies in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Iceland, Asia, and India. Burtynsky chronicles the various roles that water plays in modern life: as a source of healthy ecosystems and energy, as a key element in cultural and religious rituals, and as a rapidly depleting resource.
Flowers Gallery
London, UK
Earlier this Spring, Edward Burtynsky found himself in mandated lockdown in Grey County, Ontario due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown presented him with an opportunity to get out into the surrounding landscape, new camera in hand, and begin focusing on Nature as his subject matter. The result is a new series titled Natural Order, which recalls Burtynsky's earliest works as a photographer.
Arup Phase 2
London, UK
The Arup Collection has its origins in the earliest years of the firm. This exhibition shows a selection of works in different media as well as furniture from Arup’s first offices. Ove Arup had a keen interest in the arts. In 1948, he became a member of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and retained an enthusiasm for collecting throughout his life which was shared by the firm’s founding partners. The Collection includes works by artists who pushed the boundaries of their medium in the post-war period, as can be seen in the prints and drawings of R B Kitaj and John Piper whom Arup worked with on Coventry Cathedral.
From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s the firm acquired works by upcoming artists, including Simon Wells and Chad McCail. In the same period, more established artists like Jacqueline Morreau, Deanna Petherbridge, Victor Newsome and Kenneth Martin contributed important additions to the Collection.
Ben Johnson’s 'Structural Trees, Stansted' (1990) and Jim Dine’s 'Lloyds Building' (1986) both relate to Arup projects. Architectural photography by Henk Snoek, Harry Sowden, Bernard Vincent and Richard Bryant also captured some of the most renowned buildings of Arup’s history: the Sydney Opera House, Centre Pompidou and the Menil Collection.
As a trust-owned firm, the Collection is an important part of the shared heritage of Arup’s members worldwide and provides a precious link to Arup’s cultural history.
Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, ON
Nicholas Metivier Gallery has a long-standing reputation for representing and working with some of the most original and respected photographers internationally. On Paper | Part II brings together several photographers whose various approaches range from embracing classical techniques to reinventing the medium with unusual or highly technical applications. We are honoured to be able to work with this remarkable group of photographers that demonstrate the highest caliber in terms of quality and creativity in their respective practices.
