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wonder provoked by nature has been replaced by the work of art, which enables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
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Miami Beach - Art Deco District/South Beach
305/673-7530
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