Unnatural- until October 28, 2012

UNNATURAL presents scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through a variety of strategies that reflect advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion.

The artists selected for UNNATURAL come from diverse cultural backgrounds and work in a wide range of media including video, photography, sculpture and installation. These artists seem to be stretching the limits of time and place, while collecting and assembling imagery from different sources to create a new, artificial form of nature. The majority of the artists in this show are Israeli-born which charges the exhibition with a political accent that relates to nature, territories and landscape in critical ways.

UNNATURAL represents the far-fetched fusion of reality, fantasy and simulation. At the same time, it shows the freedom of the imagination and the wonders of simulation technology, which make the inconceivable conceivable. It reveals how the unmediated sense of awe and wonder provoked by nature has been replaced by the work of art, which enables us to marvel at the act of representation and to re-imagine nature, while celebrating the wonders of the human imagination.

Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Miami Beach - Art Deco District/South Beach
305/673-7530

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Unnatural Exhibit at Bass Museum of Art- until November 4, 2012

UNNATURAL will present scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through a variety of strategies that reflect advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion. The works in UNNATURAL thus reflect a cultivated, synthetic, manipulated nature, which includes allusions to science as manifestations of a reality oscillating between the real and imaginary.

UNNATURAL represents the far-fetched fusion of reality, fantasy and simulation. At the same time, it reflects the freedom of the imagination and the wonders of simulation technology, which make the inconceivable conceivable. It reveals how the unmediated sense of awe and wonder provoked by nature has been replaced by the work of art, which enables us to marvel at the act of representation and to re-imagine nature, while celebrating the wonders of the human imagination.
The location of this project in Miami Beach—a subtropical, botanically lush barrier island that was built on a filled coral reef,  where even the beach sand was artificially imported—further strengthens the tangible relationship between the “natural” and the “unnatural”.

Participating artists:


Boaz Aharonovitch | Einat Arif-Galanti | Aziz + Cucher | Céleste Boursier-Mougenot and Ariane Michel | Blane De St. Croix | Rose-Lynn Fisher | Ori Gersht | Meirav Heiman and Yossi Ben Shoshan | Hilja Keading | Freddy Shachar Kislev | Sigalit Landau | Dana Levy | Tobias Madison | Richard Mosse | Gilad Ratman | Samantha Salzinger | Tomer Sapir | Yehudit Sasportas | Michal Shamir | Uri Shapira | Jennifer Steinkamp | Gal Weinstein | Wendy Wischer | Guy Zagursky

For more info, visit: Bass Museum of Art Website





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Unnatural- until October 28, 2012

UNNATURAL presents scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through a variety of strategies that reflect advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion.

The artists selected for UNNATURAL come from diverse cultural backgrounds and work in a wide range of media including video, photography, sculpture and installation. These artists seem to be stretching the limits of time and place, while collecting and assembling imagery from different sources to create a new, artificial form of nature. The majority of the artists in this show are Israeli-born which charges the exhibition with a political accent that relates to nature, territories and landscape in critical ways.

 

UNNATURAL represents the far-fetched fusion of reality, fantasy and simulation. At the same time, it shows the freedom of the imagination and the wonders of simulation technology, which make the inconceivable conceivable. It reveals how the unmediated sense of awe and wonder provoked by nature has been replaced by the work of art, which enables us to marvel at the act of representation and to re-imagine nature, while celebrating the wonders of the human imagination.

Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Miami Beach - Art Deco District/South Beach
305/673-7530

Come stay with us at Florida South Beach Rentals, right on the beach!

Unnatural- until October 28, 2012

UNNATURAL presents scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through a variety of strategies that reflect advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion.

The artists selected for UNNATURAL come from diverse cultural backgrounds and work in a wide range of media including video, photography, sculpture and installation. These artists seem to be stretching the limits of time and place, while collecting and assembling imagery from different sources to create a new, artificial form of nature. The majority of the artists in this show are Israeli-born which charges the exhibition with a political accent that relates to nature, territories and landscape in critical ways.

UNNATURAL represents the far-fetched fusion of reality, fantasy and simulation. At the same time, it shows the freedom of the imagination and the wonders of simulation technology, which make the inconceivable conceivable. It reveals how the unmediated sense of awe and wonder provoked by nature has been replaced by the work of art, which enables us to marvel at the act of representation and to re-imagine nature, while celebrating the wonders of the human imagination.

Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Miami Beach - Art Deco District/South Beach
305/673-7530

Come stay with us at Florida South Beach Rentals, right on the beach!

Unnatural- until October 28, 2012

UNNATURAL presents scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through a variety of strategies that reflect advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion.

The artists selected for UNNATURAL come from diverse cultural backgrounds and work in a wide range of media including video, photography, sculpture and installation. These artists seem to be stretching the limits of time and place, while collecting and assembling imagery from different sources to create a new, artificial form of nature. The majority of the artists in this show are Israeli-born which charges the exhibition with a political accent that relates to nature, territories and landscape in critical ways.

UNNATURAL represents the far-fetched fusion of reality, fantasy and simulation. At the same time, it shows the freedom of the imagination and the wonders of simulation technology, which make the inconceivable conceivable. It reveals how the unmediated sense of awe and wonder provoked by nature has been replaced by the work of art, which enables us to marvel at the act of representation and to re-imagine nature, while celebrating the wonders of the human imagination.

Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Miami Beach - Art Deco District/South Beach
305/673-7530

Come stay with us at Florida South Beach Rentals, right on the beach!

 

Unnatural- until October 28, 2012

UNNATURAL presents scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through a variety of strategies that reflect advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion.

The artists selected for UNNATURAL come from diverse cultural backgrounds and work in a wide range of media including video, photography, sculpture and installation. These artists seem to be stretching the limits of time and place, while collecting and assembling imagery from different sources to create a new, artificial form of nature. The majority of the artists in this show are Israeli-born which charges the exhibition with a political accent that relates to nature, territories and landscape in critical ways.

UNNATURAL represents the far-fetched fusion of reality, fantasy and simulation. At the same time, it shows the freedom of the imagination and the wonders of simulation technology, which make the inconceivable conceivable. It reveals how the unmediated sense of awe and wonder provoked by nature has been replaced by the work of art, which enables us to marvel at the act of representation and to re-imagine nature, while celebrating the wonders of the human imagination.

Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Miami Beach - Art Deco District/South Beach
305/673-7530

Come stay with us at Florida South Beach Rentals, right on the beach!