Anthropocene

Preview 23 November 2016 ore 18.30

24 November 2016 – 21 January 2017

text by Paola Cavalieri

Riccardo Crespi gallery presents Anthropocene, a group exhibition that, starting from a text by Paola Cavalieri, analyzes the possibility that we are living in a new geological era, dominated by the human. Against the background of the theme’s relevance within the current scientific and cultural debate, the group show also refers to Natura e Destino: a previous gallery exhibition, in which the artists were asked to reinterpret Konrad Lorenz’s work of the same name, and to ponder on the relations between human and nature in the near future.

The works by 15 artists will establish a path within which reflection, be it manifest or only hinted at, will help to open up possible ways out of this new disturbing scenario.

The exhibition aims at highlighting some aspects of contemporary thought: the way artists reflect an era of change, from a content point of view rather a formal and stylistic one, and the way the work – that has become explicitly political - includes nature as a sphere of interest and critical denunciation, incorporating it into the human with which it interacts, and of which it is also a victim.