INDOC. Documentation centre about Art and Nature

Lluís Hortalà. Exercitatorio IX, 2011.
Image by courtesy of Lluís Hortalà.

CDAN to showcase work of Lluís Hortalà in upcoming exhibition

On 1 October, the CDAN will open an exhibition that will explore the theme of mountains in Lluís Hortalà’s work. Based on the climber’s experience – from which the artist returns as if from “the other side” – the show will also offer a critical view of our habitual way of seeing. Hortalà has worked with the Montserrat massif and is currently focusing his attention on the Mallos de Riglos. These new works will be presented for the first time at the CDAN. The exhibition will run until 29 January 2012. [+]

Art and nature

Fist_Art Foundation

The foundation, set up in Puerto Rico in 2008, has become a leading centre for the exploration of relationships between contemporary art and nature in the Caribbean region. [+]

Robert Smithson:
40 years in Europe

In 1971, Robert Smithson, one of the leading pioneers of land art and the Earthworks movement, constructed a work entitled Broken Circle / Spiral Hill near Emmen (Netherlands). The work is the only landscape intervention by the artist outside the United States that is still conserved.

As a tribute to Smithson, whose life and artistic career were cut short two years after the work was created, a series of activities focusing on the artist will take place from September to November. [+]

Robert Smithson, Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, 1971, Emmen, The Netherlands (View: Broken Circle)
Photography: Nancy Holt, 1971
© Estate of Robert Smithson / Licensed by VAGA, New York. Courtesy: James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai. Imagen suministrada por www.landartcontemporary.nl

Final days to submit projects for “Thinking Landscape” grant

October 3 is the deadline for submitting applications for the “Thinking Landscape” research grant, which is offered by the Beulas Foundation through the CDAN. The aim consists in promoting studies about landscape in its theoretical aspects by encouraging the drafting of projects of a general nature that may pave the way for further studies.

This grant is conceived for research projects falling under the generic theme of landscape in all its aspects. [+]

Council of Europe sponsors European Landscape Conference

The 5th European Landscape Conference, sponsored by the Council of Europe, will take place in Strasbourg from 10 to 12 October. This year’s edition will focus on landscape as a source of wealth creation. The meeting is aimed at holders of public office, experts on the environment and green spaces, property developers, companies, landscape professionals, architectural practices, and students and instructors in the field. [+]

A session during a previous edition.
Photo provided by the organisers of the 5th European Landscape Conference
(Sensation! agency).

Still from "Ecos del bosque", by Lois Patiño.

Lois Patiño wins first prize
in Landscape Moments competition

The winners of the CDAN’s Landscape Moments competition were announced in July. First prize went to a work entitled Ecos del bosque (Echoes of the forest) by Lois Patiño. Peter Matthews took second prize for his piece En el Mar Atlántico (In the Atlantic Sea). The winning entries and other selected works will be shown at the CDAN and other cultural events in which the centre participates. [+]