Ecoscape

Environmental friendliness vs environmental pollution

21 Nov 2008
11 Jan 2009
  • TENT.
  • Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam

The current social engagement with environmental issues has developed into a debate of mythical proportions: the struggle seems to be one between good and evil, fact and fiction, fear and hope. But can the dividing line between the environmentally friendly and environmentally polluting be drawn so accurately? Ecoscape brings together a number of artists whose work places them in a critical position in the current debate on how we interact with our habitat. The works in the exhibition allow us a view of a confusing world, in which the polluted landscape appears paradisiacal, a global issue becomes personal, and beauty also has a gruesome aspect.

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Pim Palsgraaf, Multiscape 10, courtesy MK Galerie, image from Tent. -

With:
Jan van Nuenen, Ine Lamers, Pim Palsgraaf, Aletta de Jong, Frank Bruggeman, Beatrice Jansen, Erik Sep, Arjen van Krieken, Duotuin

Exhibition at TENT. Rotterdam, from 21.11, 2oo8 until 11.o1, 2oo9.
Opening: Friday 21.11, 2oo8 at 2o.oo hrs.

With Ine Lamers, Pim Palsgraaf, Jan van Nuenen, Aletta de Jong, Frank Bruggeman, Beatrice Jansen, Erik Sep, Arjen van Krieken, Duotuin.

In the computer animation Evolizer (2007), filmmaker Jan van Nuenen sketches an image of evolution that has got out of hand. Robot-like figures move through a futuristic, colourless cityscape. When one of them opens a box, spontaneous modulations create ever-larger numbers of organic forms and it develops into a battle for survival. Jan van Nuenen builds his computer animations from fragments of visual material found on the Internet. He processes the material into experimental films in which landscapes, people and machines proliferate, transform and mutate at a rapid rate.

For more information on the other art projects, visit the Tent. website.