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Barbican | Radical Nature
Radical Nature
Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009
Jun 19 - Oct 18 2009
Barbican Centre, Dalston Mill and RSA
London
The RSA Arts & Ecology Centre collaborates in creating the events and commissions for the Radical Nature exhibition. Starting with a key event at the RSA, over 50 events will take place at the Barbican gallery between June and October.
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 and Simon Starling.
Daily 11am–8pm
Wednesday 11am–6pm
Every Thursday LATE until 10pm.
For more information please see the Radical Nature section of Arts & Ecology website
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8908
