Eco-Visionaries is the latest exhibition about our destruction of the natural world
Eco-Visionaries at London's Royal Academy of Arts looks at how art and architecture can help us respond to environmental change, and is the latest in a line of recent large-scale exhibitions on the theme.
The show brings together international artists, designers and architects who are confronting environmental issues through their practice, at a critical moment for the planet.
It is the latest exhibition about our fractured relationship with the natural world, following the Broken Nature exhibition at the Milan Triennale, Nature at Cooper Hewitt in New York, Cube in the Netherlands and The Coming World at Garage Museum in Moscow.
"Everyone is taking a different approach and talking about specific issues, but what's important is that we're all doing it at the same time," said architecture programme curator at the RA, Gonzalo Herrero Delicado. "We're seeing in the papers on a daily basis that we need to take action now, from Extinction Rebellion to Greta Thunberg, they're telling us we need to act now or it's going to be too late," he continued.
"We need to rethink our relationship with nature, and at museums we have a responsibility to make artists and architects' voices heard, not necessarily to a specialist audience."
The issues addressed in the show at the Royal Academy of Arts include species extinction, resource depletion, climate change and the food shortages that will ensue.
Each of the works by 21 creatives from all around the world co...
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