Articles liés à The Mackay Creek Series

The Mackay Creek Series - Couverture rigide

Jefferies, Bill

 
9781910433409: The Mackay Creek Series
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1910433403 ISBN 13 : 9781910433409
Editeur : Black Dog Publishing Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

In his paintings, Ron den Daas bypasses humanity's obsession with the self and comments on small changes in the natural world. Rather than merely depicting oil spills, toxic sludge, clear-cuts or wetland draining, his observations aim to sensitise viewers to the precarious ecological state that humans have created everywhere. In November 2008 den Daas found returned Coho salmon adults in Upper Mackay Creek. Although this was once a common occurrence in North Vancouver creeks, it was a rare event in the endangered urban creek ecosystem of 2008. Painting onsite over several years, he completed the first of 60 studies of a pool and small waterfall in the creek. In addition to environmentalism, a key context for the paintings in this book is the history of diaristic procedures in art. Everyday images, seemingly of little consequence, forcibly reference much larger global phenomena. By treating the creek diaristically, observing the same site for 60 days, the series monitors and records the state of one ecosystem through a single cycle of the seasons. Dedicated to the proposition that art can have a significant role in raising global ecological consciousness, Ron den Daas offers this critical commentary through his art of the everyday and documents the conditions that undermine the well-being of a particular habitat, synecdochically standing in for ecosystems everywhere. Written by artist and activist, Bill Jeffries, with a foreword by Brian Riddle, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Salmon Foundation in Vancouver.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In his paintings, Ron den Daas bypasses humanity's obsession with the self and comments on small changes in the natural world. Rather than merely depicting oil spills, toxic sludge, clear-cuts or wetland draining, his observations aim to sensitise viewers to the precarious ecological state that humans have created everywhere. In November 2008 den Daas found returned Coho salmon adults in Upper Mackay Creek. Although this was once a common occurrence in North Vancouver creeks, it was a rare event in the endangered urban creek ecosystem of 2008. Painting onsite over several years, he completed the first of 60 studies of a pool and small waterfall in the creek. In addition to environmentalism, a key context for the paintings in this book is the history of diaristic procedures in art. Everyday images, seemingly of little consequence, forcibly reference much larger global phenomena. By treating the creek diaristically, observing the same site for 60 days, the series monitors and records the state of one ecosystem through a single cycle of the seasons. Dedicated to the proposition that art can have a significant role in raising global ecological consciousness, Ron den Daas offers this critical commentary through his art of the everyday and documents the conditions that undermine the well-being of a particular habitat, synecdochically standing in for ecosystems everywhere. Written by artist and activist, Bill Jeffries, with a foreword by Brian Riddle, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Salmon Foundation in Vancouver.

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Éditeur
Black Dog Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1910433403
ISBN 13 
9781910433409
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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