Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009
22nd June -18th October '09
Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London
The Barbican presents ‘Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet’, an exhibition which brings together key figures who have created utopian works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet.
For centuries the beauty and wonder of nature have provided inspiration for artists and architects. Since the 1960s, the increasingly evident degradation of the natural world and the effects of climate change have brought a new urgency to their responses.
Drawing on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism, the exhibition is designed as one fantastical landscape featuring pioneering work by artists and architects including Buckminster Fuller, Ant Farm, Joseph Beuys, and Heather and Ivan Morison.
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