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Art in Action Book | Envisioning Change – Norway / Brussels

 

Envisioning Change
Visjoner om Endring
Envisage le Changement



Envisioning Change Exhibit Opening!
Green Leaf Artist Award Winners' Works
Outdoor Installation
Exhibit Images


Press Release Document

Artist Images
Artist Bios
About Art for the Environment
Opening Invitation
Curatorial Statement
Organization Bios


Complete Press Kit PDF

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Exhibit Opening

UNEP”s Communications Director Eric Falt, Nobel peace Center’s Director Bente Erichson, Natural World Museum’s Founding Director Mia Hanak, NWM’s Exhibit Curator Randy Rosenberg, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP’s Executive Director Achim Steiner.
Randy Rosenberg, NWM Exhibit Curator, and Mia Hanak, Founding Executive Director of the Natural World Museum in front of artwork from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by artist Subhankar Banerjee.
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2004, greets children during UN World Environment Day in Oslo, Norway.
Founding Executive Director of the Natural World Museum, Mia Hanak with UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNEP, Achim Steiner present NWM's Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future publication.
Jeff Kowalski – Autodesk; Lucy Orta – Artist; Eric Falt – UNEP; Wangari Maathai – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Mia Hanak - NWM Director; Icelandic Love Corporation – Artists; Chris Jordan – Artist; Nicholas Kahn – Artist; Randy Rosenberg – Curator.


Green Leaf Artist Award Winners

Sculpture – David Trubridge

On Thin Ice
steel

216 x 30 inches, 549 x 76 cm

Conceptual Installation – Lucy & Jorge Orta

Orta Water - Fluviale Intervention Unit
Canadian maple wood canoe, iron structure, water network, gloves, 4 buckets, 4 crates, 4 water drums, 2 water tanks, taps, CD player, speakers, 24 bottles, 4 flasks
102 x 200 x 47 inches, 260 x 510 x 120 cm
Painting – Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick

EISBERGFREISTADT
watercolor on paper
72 x 8 inches, 183 x 20 cm
Photography – Chris Jordan

Denali/Denial
digital photography, wall mount
72 x 96 inches, 183 x 213 cm
Multi-Media – The Icelandic Love Corporation

Ladies on Ice
(7) c-prints and 10-minute video

 

Outdoor Installation

“ARK” by Alfio Bonanno, in the treetops by Oslo’s City Hall.


Exhibit Images

NWM’s Envisioning Change exhibit view, Nobel Peace Center, with Lucy and Jorge Orta’s “Fluvial Unit” in the foreground.
NWM’s Envisioning Change exhibit view, Nobel Peace Center.

 


Artist Images



Anne Senstad. Norway
Essence of Light
(3) c-prints, plexiglass and aluminum
20 x 20 inches each, 51 x 51 cm each

 

Robert Bateman, Canada
Antarctic Evening – Humpback Whales
acrylic on canvas, large scale painting
48 x 60 inches, 122 x 152 cm

 

Chris Jordan, United States
Denali/Denial
digital photography, wall mount
72 x 96 inches, 183 x 213 cm

 

Yoshiaki Kahaitsu, Japan
Social Services Project, Teahouse
styrofoam
96 x 96 x 96 inches, 243 x 243 x 243 cm

 

David Buckland, England
Ice Texts (Burning Ice)
iris prints bonded to reinforced glass
34 x 34 inches, 86 x 86 cm

 

Lucy Orta, England
Orta Water - Fluviale Intervention Unit
Canadian maple wood canoe, iron structure, water network, gloves, 4 buckets, 4 crates, 4 water drums, 2 water tanks, taps, CD player, speakers, 24 bottles, 4 flasks
102 x 200 x 47 inches, 260 x 510 x 120cm


Artist Bios



About Art for the Environment



Opening Invitation



Curatorial Statement



Organization Bios
Natural World Museum
United Nations Environment Programme
Autodesk, Inc.
Nobel Peace Center
Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

 

 
   
   
   

 

 
 
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