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Weather Report: Climate Change and Visual Arts

The publication is intended as a medium in which to disseminate the images created for the show and the ideas put on the table, question the approach museums and art centres take to managing exhibitions, and examine the way artworks are produced. The book also represents one of the few forms of resistance left to us: a small-scale exercise in political activism in response to a global problem.

Weather Report contains an important message for 21st-century society because it addresses widespread concern about how the global climate is changing and the extent to which human activity is driving this process. Climate change will have serious consequences for the world's population, particularly those living in the worst affected geographical areas.

Weather Report provides an opportunity for creators from around the world with different perspectives to reflect on this vital contemporary issue and express their observations, fears and conclusions.

The book is not intended to be an appendix to the exhibition. Nor is it a catalogue. It is simply one more medium for communicating an ethical message and concrete results. The publication includes the work produced by the 13 artists who contributed photographs to the project: Teresa Arozena, Dan Holdsworth, Thomas Köner, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Laurel Nakadate, Tomás Saraceno, Rei Sato, Carlos A. Schwartz, Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, Jane Simpson, Jörn Vanhöfen and Catherine Yass.

The photographs that illustrate the 351-page book are almost the same size as the prints used in the exhibition, the natural size in which they were intended to be shown.

Details:

• Weather Report: Climate Change and the Visual Arts. Texts, concept and design by Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, 2007. 351 pages with colour illustrations. Written in Spanish and English.

More information:

• The book is available from INDOC, the CDAN’s Art and Nature Documentation Centre.
   

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