Earth at the Royal Academy
06 01 2010 | by Rowena Loverance | Read 1226 times
Rowena Loverance sees the planet in art
Mariele Neudecker, ‘400 Thousand Generations’, 2009. | Courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm. © GSK Contemporary 2009 – Earth.
By the time you read this, we shall know what deal, if any, was done at Copenhagen, and what part popular campaigning played in achieving it. But whether art works played any part in influencing either governmental or popular opinion, we may never know. A year ago, reviewing the year in art for Friends Quarterly, I commented that when it came to climate change, artists have been running to catch up. UK viewers can now judge the success of their efforts at the GSK Contemporary: Earth exhibition at London’s Royal Academy.
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