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The aesthetically captivating 23rd edition of the biennale shows how art can contribute to debates around environmental sustainability.
Tree art is putting down roots Tree art is putting down roots Arboreal art is having a moment. We explore how artists are installing trees in public spaces as odes to social change. Branching out of barking fad? Klaus Littmann, Arena for a Tree, 2021. Photography: Gerhard Maurer It may sound far fetched, but we have it under good authority that art is starting to grow on trees. They line our parks, maintain our industries and sustain our existence. And trees’ role in public installation art is far from revolutionary. One need only bark back to the artist and environmental activist Joseph ...
Artist duo Ackroyd and Harvey have planted 100 oak trees outside Tate Modern Ackroyd & Harvey, Beuys’ Acorns, 2021. (c) Tate Photography (Seraphina Neville) A forest of 100 young oaks has taken root on the terrace outside Tate Modern, where it will remain throughout the summer until 14 November. But these are no ordinary trees. They are the direct progeny of 7,000 oak trees planted by the artist, environmental activist and German Green Party founder Joseph Beuys in and around the city of Kassel in Germany between 1982-87. This now-seminal work was called 7,000 ...
In advance of the Tate Modern galleries' reopening (planned for May 17) in London, Beuysâ Acorns is a fresh installation representing ideas of regeneration, and is free for visitors to see outside the museum. The installation of 100 oak saplings opened May 4 on the terrace outside Tate Modern. Entitled Beuysâ Acorns, the project was started in 2007 by British artists Ackroyd & Harvey. Its latest display marks 100 years since the birth of Joseph Beuys (1921-86), the hugely influential artist and environmental activist. Beuysâ Acorns is a living sculpture where visitors ca...
What Will Happen To Bill Gates Art Collection Post Divorce Bill and Melinda Gates are in the process of divorcing, but what will happen to their art collection?. A Seattle court has been told that they have worked out a plan to split their assets. The plan is not public. The Microsoft founder has a net worth of $120 billion, as published by Forbes. Gates has been actively buying high-value American Impressionism and early Twentieth Century art. including a Winslow Homer purchased for a record-breaking $36 million in 1998, and a George Bellows bought for $27.5 million. Other works of art inclu...