Art Of The Day Weekly

Artists for the planet

The heavy atmosphere that reigns after the murderous attacks of 13 November complicates the COP21 meeting. While many events have been cancelled, most of the artistic aspect is maintained: installations, symposiums, exhibitions, that intend to enhance visually and symbolically our exaggerated use of rare resources. At the Gaîté Lyrique, at Centre Pompidou, at the Conservatoire des arts et métiers as well as in town. Shephard Fairey will suspend a mandala globe under the Eiffel Tower, with a very evocative name: Earth Crisis. Michael Pinsky, in L’eau qui dort, has objects float – rubble and pieces of wreckage – fished out of the canal de l’Ourcq. The “Fukushima mon amour” collective will group together in an area at 18 bis boulevard Beaumarchais some sixty artists, among them Castelbajac and Pras and Vilmouth, who intend to draw attention to the Japanese catastrophe, much too quickly forgotten and filed away with the classified matters. At the Maison de l’architecture, the exhibition “Villes potentielles” shows, based on models and drawings, how architects see the city in this new era of the Anthropocene, where man has succeeded to endanger memorable balances.

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