PA PRESS authors in EXIT ART exhibition opening Friday 6/18! · Jun 17, 01:45 PM
ECOAESTHETIC: The Tragedy of Beauty
June 18 – August 28, 2010
Opening Friday, June 18 / 7-10pm
Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave.
New York, NY 10018
ARTISTS
Edward Burtynsky (Canada); Mitch Epstein (USA); Anthony Hamboussi (USA); Chris Jordan (USA); Christopher LaMarca (USA); Sze Tsung Leong (USA); David Maisel (USA); Susannah Sayler/The Canary Project (USA); Jo Syz (UK)
ECOAESTHETIC: The Tragedy of Beauty will focus on photography of land where the tragedy of the image becomes the aesthetic of the environment. The artists in this exhibition do not have a passive engagement with the environment; rather, they seek out beautiful and tragic images to emphasize the human impact on fragile ecosystems, to elucidate our relationship to nature, and to visualize the violence of natural disasters. The purpose of The Tragedy of Beauty is to demonstrate that global environmental struggles are creating an aesthetic.
Newtown Creek by Anthony Hamboussi and In Katrina’s Wake by Chris Jordan are published by Princeton Architectural Press.
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