Cortada works: Do Not Open | Climate Refugees | Hot for Hialeah | Psychoanalysis of Climate Change | Reclamation Project | Flor 500
LTER : Everglades (Florida) | HJ Andrews (Oregon) | Hubbard Brook (New Hampshire)
Xavier Cortada, “5 Actions to Stop Rising Seas: Hit it!,” video screen shot, 2015.
In acknowledgement of the support from the Rauschenberg Residency/Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
CLIMA will exhibit the following works by Xavier Cortada
Rising Seas:
Videos, silk screens and digital prints created during the artist’s participation in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency Rising Seas Confab 2015
Performances | Panels:
During November 30th -December 11th, Cortada will convene 12 panel discussions and accompanying performance art works, each addressing an important theme related to global climate change. Panels will be streamed live at http://cortada.com/clima-2016-livestream/
Solar Panels:
Cortada will create a progressive painting on three solar panels onsite. The background will depict diatoms (the original solar panels) used by FIU scientists to research sea level rise. Inspired by CLIMA’s daily panel discussions, Cortada will paint additional images to the solar panels every day.
Digital Works:
Small scale replicas of Cortada’s recent environmentally-themed commissions for the Florida Turnpike, Port Everglades Terminal 2 and Terminal 4, Honoring the Future and the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation.
Paintings:
Littoral Creatures, works created in 2014 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve and protect the sea grasses.
Polar Installations:
Selected works from the artist’s environmental installations at the South Pole in 2007 and at the North Pole in 2008.
Xavier Cortada, “Testamento,” archival ink on aluminum, 2015
Xavier Cortada, “Luster,” digital art/archival ink on aluminum, 2015.
Xavier Cortada, Shimmer, digital art/archival ink on aluminum, 2015.
Xavier Cortada, “SOLAR,” digital art on three solar panels, 65″ x 117″, 2015
