ART-PRESENTATION: Will Nature Make A Man of Me Yet?

Each year students of the Goldsmiths University of London Curatorial department are invited to propose exhibitions ta take place at Pi Artworks in London and the curator with the most exciting proposal is invited to realize the exhibition as part of the Gallery’s Summer program.  

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Pi Artworks Archive

“Will Nature Make A Man of Me Yet?” is the fourth exhibition of this collaboration, through painting, video, collage, sculpture, performance, installation and a lecture-performance the exhibition asks how do humans, and their creations, adapt to uncontrollable environmental changes after centuries of ecocide? The exhibition presents a pan-global perspective on the issue of the Anthropocene, an era that started when humanity began to have a significant impact on the planet. This is done through exploring gender, capitalism, identity, automation, materiality and the potential for nature’s reincarnation after the crisis. The artists reconfigure, appropriate and destroy the simplistic depiction of nature as separate from man: raising awareness of the destructive and creative effects of human consumption on the cosmos. The exhibition seeks to incite feelings of rage and exhaustion as we witness a new age where artists aren’t able to respond or take control because they are swept up in the current structures of things as much as anybody else. They are unable to view the Anthropocene objectively because they live deep within it. The feeling of frustration and incompetence weaves these artworks together, as the artists visualize the twenty first century’s environmental Armageddon. Participating Artists: Alex Anikina, Reto Huber & Markus Huber (huber.huber), Mark Salvatus, Manuel Mathieu, Rachel McRae, Omer Even-Paz and Victoria Sin.

Info: Curator: John Kenneth Paranada, Pi Artworks, 55 Eastcastle Street, London, Duration: 26/8-10/9/16, Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00, Sat 11:00-18:00, Alex Anikina lecture-performance: 1/9/16 18:30 – 20:30, Artist Talk: 8/9/16 18:30 – 20:30, www.piartworks.com