NEWSLETTER
SUMMER 2010
 

INDOC. Documentation Centre about Art and Nature

A moment during one of the lectures delivered for the Landscape and History course (2009).

Last days to register for ‘Landscape and Heritage’ course

The registration period for this specialised course, the last in the ‘Thinking Landscape’ series, will close on 16 June. Over the last five years, these courses have analysed relationships between ‘landscape’ and other disciplines. This year the focus will be on issues related to the interpretation of landscape from a heritage perspective, conservation criteria, and the different ways in which this field might evolve in the future. [+]

  

Art and Nature

Fattoria di Celle.
Giuliano Gori Collection

One of the first and most important parks in the world devoted to the fusion of art and nature is located 35 km from Florence. [+]

Bibliographical collection

Find out about some of the books recently added to the INDOC collection. [+]


Brief news items and calls

INDOC receives information that may be of interest to you on grants, aid, educational programmes, etc. related to art and landscape (available only in Spanish). [+]

Publications

Measurable
[exhibition catalogue]

The publication explores the relationship between photographic images, science and nature. [+]

CDAN calls

María Sarrate research grant 2010 [+]

Audiovisual competition Instantes de paisaje 2010 [+]

CDAN Calendar

All of the activities and services offered by the CDAN over the next few weeks. [+]

Guided tours of the CDAN

Visits can be scheduled on weekends at three different times: Saturdays at 12 noon and 6pm, and Sundays at 12 noon. [+]

Receive information

If you wish to stay informed of CDAN activities, send an e-mail to:  difusion@cdan.es

Showcase for art and nature in the Ruhr Basin

From May and September, Emscher Island in Germany is hosting the ‘EmscherKunst’ art and nature exhibition. The event, held within the framework of the Ruhr 2010 European Capital of Culture, will take place in an environment that is undergoing the most extensive process of plant regeneration anywhere in the world. Along a 34-km route visitors will find 20 projects aimed at highlighting the value of landscape. [+]

 

Warten auf den Fluss (Waiting on the river), one of the projects that visitors to EmscherKunst 2010 can experience. Photo courtesy of the organisers.

  

Pablo Llorca, the curator of the exhibition, chats with some of those attending the opening.

Measurable: the CDAN’s exhibition for the summer

Measurable, which will run until 19 September at the Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, focuses on how images (mainly photographic, but also film, video, and even spectrographic images) can be used as a means of analysing and exploring diverse scientific aspects of reality related to nature. Curated by Pablo Llorca. [+]

  

Museum De Paviljoens organises visits to works of land art

From 2 May to 27 June, this museum located in Almere (Netherlands) organises excursions with professional guides to visit one of Europe’s most outstanding art and nature collections. In addition to providing participants with information on the artworks, guides explain how the province of Flevoland was reclaimed from the sea during the 20th century. [+]

A view of Observatorium by Robert Morris.

  

Work by Anthony McCall entitled "Landscape for White Squares "(1972).
Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander.

Pioneers of land art
at the Koldo Mitxelena

In an exhibition entitled El paisaje como idea: proyectos y proyecciones, 1960-1980 [Landscape As Idea: Projects and Projections, 1960-1980], the Koldo Mitxelena art centre in San Sebastian will showcase a number of installations executed in nature that were cutting-edge when first created and are now regarded as classics. The show, which will include works by Joseph Beuys, Walter de Maria, Richard Long and Robert Smithson, among others, will run from 10 June to 25 September. Curated by Berta Sichel.  [+]