Lucy + Jorge Orta | Amazonia
06 octobre 2010 - 12 décembre 2010
Natural History Museum London, Solo Exhibition
UK
The new works on exhibition include: Collection: Aepyornis, Gallimimus, Allosaurus, Pelaeomastodon intricate porcelain casts of dinosaur fossils from the museum’s palaeontology department and Bones three larger than life iridescent aluminum bone sculptures. Madre de Dios - Fluvial Intervention Unit a ‘Noah’s Arc’ pirogue crammed with hundreds of tiny animals reflected into infinity. Amazonia a memorising diptych video-audio projection which covers the walls of the Jerwood Gallery, and Perpetual Amazonia S12 48 21.6 W71 24 17.6 a series of stunning large format photographs referencing the diversity of flora around the world, marked with the UTM coordinates of a hectare of land in the Amazon that the artists are hoping to save into perpetuity.
During their expedition Lucy + Jorge Orta assisted eco-scientists with their species collection, sketching, photographing and filming the flora and fauna they encountered along their journey. Reflecting on some of the ecosystems they encountered, they found the rainforest to be a beautiful oasis of diversity, in a state of crisis. As with many of their projects, the artists hope that their artworks will conceptually stake out the terrain of our relationship to nature and its value to us - restoring our focus to the world around us, both its beauty and its imperilled state.
Wijheizij - Milk
10 juillet 2010 - 19 septembre 2010
Permekemuseum and Baliehof dairy farm, Solo exhibition
Jabbeke, Belgium
Eclaircies - Art et Changement Climatique
25 juin 2010 - 22 août 2010
Le Quai, Angers, Group Exhibition + Performance
France
"A la manière des philosophes éclairant les gouvernements des lumières, les artistes aujourd’hui cherchent à apporter un éclairage sensible pour repenser notre monde."
Lucy + Jorge Orta present Urban Life Guard, first shown in 2005 at the Curve gallery, Barbican (2005. During the opening night, contemporary dance students from CNDC will imporvise a performance to create unexpected transformations.
Antartica
11 juin 2010 - 15 août 2010
Montbard, Group Exhibition
France
The series Antartica embodies the hope for a neutral peaceful land, free of conflict. The Dome Dwellings and Drop Parcahutes embelished with all nation flags are a physical embodiment of a new ‘Global Village’, referring to the right to freedom of movement enshrined within the UN Declaration for Human Rights. For the opening, the artists distributed the Antarctica World Passport to the inhabitants of Montbard adding to the online database: http://antarcticaworldpassport.mit.edu/citizens/news
MAXXI’s art and architecture collection - inauguration
30 mai 2010 - 23 janvier 2011
MAXXI Rome, Group Exhibition
Italy
Three works from the series Antarctic Village - No Borders by Lucy + Jorge Orta have been selected for this inaugural display and the visitor will be guided through an exploration of the complex concept of space understood in both the environmental senses, as a place of imagination and as a political and social dimension.
Lucy Orta
29 mai 2010 - 25 juillet 2010
CCANW - Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Solo Exhibition
UK
Lucy often uses facilitated workshop processes, harnessing fashion’s power to create identity and symbolic content for ‘social sculpture’ worn in public spaces and used as interventions commenting directly on social and global issues. She draws inspiration from a variety of disciplines including fashion, architecture, design philosophy, social activism and traditional art practice. The exhibition brings together her sculptures, videos, objects and drawings.
Adelaide International 2010: Apart, we are together
25 février 2010 - 15 mars 2010
JamFactory, centre for Contemporary Craft and Design, Solo Exhibition
Australia
The exhibition includes the work of eleven international artists and is supported by University of South Australia. Adelaide International 2010: Apart, we are together will consolidate the Adelaide Festival’s long history of engagement with contemporary art from around the world by addressing the theme of the heart. “The heart can take us in many directions, memory, secrets, longing, and emotional thresholds. It is with the heart that we forge aesthetics of courage and sustenance. What does it take to survive, to keep the heart going? What forms of resistance and resilience are at work”, says curator Victoria Lynn.
Lucy + Jorge Ortas' solo exhibition at the JamFactory will include sculptures and wall works from the series 70 x 7 The Meal and Nexus Architecture. The festival have commissioned the artists to create 10 enamelled aluminium sculptures, based on their longstanding work The Gift (Life Nexus) and the artists will create a new body of work Nexus Harnesses which includes photography work from the graduate students at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
A New Stance For Tomorrow: Part 3
30 janvier 2010 - 13 mars 2010
Sketch, Group Show
UK
As a part of the Antarctica project, Lucy + Jorge Orta present the video of their journey to the Antarctic in 2007 and the installation of their symbolic village - fifty Dome Dwellings created as a possibility of a free and all inclusive community.
GSK Contemporary - Earth: Art of a Changing World
03 décembre 2009 - 31 janvier 2010
Royal Academy of Arts, Group Exhibition
UK
Lucy + Jorge Orta present Antarctic Village – No Borders, first installed in Antarctica in 2007 as a symbol of the plight of those struggling to cross borders and to gain the freedom of movement necessary to escape political and social conflict. For the artists, Antartica embodies the hope for a neutral peaceful land, free of conflict. Hand-stitched by a traditional tent-maker with sections of flags from countries around the world, this physical embodiment of the new ‘Global Village’ refers to the right to freedom of movement enshrined within the UN Declaration for Human Rights.
70 x 7 The Meal, act XXXI
31 octobre 2009 - 09 novembre 2009
Sherwell Church Hall, North Hill, Plymouth, Event
UK
The 31st act of the dining project is a celebration of wild and local food: growing it, eating it and sharing it and provides the opportunity for an invited audience to enjoy a special meal in friendly discussion around the theme of food and sustainability. Regional foods from the South-West area of England have been harvested and prepared by chefs from Fat Hen, a small rural family enterprise set up by forager and professional ecologist Caroline Davey.
Jamie Mclaren-Smith, environmental business manager from Groundwork South West, will be carrying out a carbon footprint calculation, taking in the total distances travelled by guests and food alike and the electricity and gas used on the night, therefore enabling him to work out a representative figure of the event’s approximate carbon footprint, comparing it to more commercial practices.
The event is organised by Groundwork South West in collaboration with Plymouth Arts Centre and Plymouth College of Art where a solo exhibition of Lucy Orta's work is open until the 8th November 2009.
Antarctic Village - Metisse Flag
02 octobre 2009 - 02 janvier 2010
FRAC Lorraine, Installation
France
Engaging works from artists Dove Allouche, Evariste Richer, Darren Almond, Dominique Auerbacher, Jean-Jacques Dumont, Joachim Koester, Julien Loustau, Bertrand Lozay, David Renaud, Guido van der Werve, Marijke van Warmerdam explore the aesthetics of the poles where romanticism and ecological considerations dominate and oscillate between two alternatives: a sense of profound confusion before the changing world and a yearning for adventurous exoticism. Whether they take on the form of a personal diary, a travelogue, or a documentary; whether they represent a physical, symbolical or scientific exploration, the artworks comprise a network of images, sounds, and words which combine initiatory journeys and social utopias, and in which being becomes once again human. http://www.fraclorraine.org
Lucy Orta
16 septembre 2009 - 08 novembre 2009
Plymouth Arts Centre and
Plymouth College of Art, Solo Exhibition
UK
A Way Beyond Fashion
16 septembre 2009 - 24 octobre 2009
apexart, Group Exhibition
USA
AntArctica
12 septembre 2009 - 08 novembre 2009
Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Group Exhibition
Norway
(Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments - Festival @rt Outsiders 2009
09 septembre 2009 - 11 octobre 2009
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, Group Exhibition
France
"(Un)Inhabitable? – Art of Extreme Environments" presents works that explore the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental fields as well as in the poetic ones.
Antarctica World Passport signing: Wednesday, October 7th, from 5pm.
Cape Farewell Expedition
23 juin 2009 - 10 juillet 2009
Peruvian Andes, Expedition
Peru
Off the Beaten Path
20 juin 2009 - 09 août 2009
The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Group Exhibition
Norway
HEAVEN 2nd Athens Biennale 2009
15 juin 2009 - 04 octobre 2009
Flisvos Building & P. Faliro Beach, Athens, Group Exhibition
Greece
Pot Luck: Food and Art
22 mai 2009 - 26 juillet 2009
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Group Exhibition
UK
Dress Code
08 mai 2009 - 25 juillet 2009
Iselp - Brussels, Group Exhibition
Belgium