2020-04-17
Can climate change finally make political art matter?
Picasso, Goya, Vietnam war photographers ... artists have long reflected atrocities to limited effect. Tree planting in a football stadium may have more impact. THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD by John McDonald
…So when a Swiss curator planted a forest in a football stadium in the Austrian town of Klagenfurt in September and October last year, it felt like an entirely new kind of ‘political art’. Klaus Littmann’s For Forest was many years in the making, and one can only marvel how he ever managed to secure the funds and the permission to achieve this project. He says it took 30 years…
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Can climate change finally make political art matter?
more about "FOR FOREST – The Unending Attraction of Nature", a temporary Art Intervention by Klaus Littmann. 2019
