Title: 18 Green Artists Who Are Making Climate Change And Conservation A Priority | HuffPost
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18 Green Artists Who Are Making Climate Change And Conservation A Priority
1. Olafur Eliasson’s Icebergs
2. David Maisel’s Photographs of Open Pit Mines
3. Luzinterruptus’ Waste Labyrinth
4. Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi’s Harvest Dome
5. John Sabraw’s Toxic Sludge Paintings
6. Naziha Mestaoui’s Virtual Forests
7. Rachel Sussman’s Oldest Things
8. Barry Underwood’s Electric Landscapes
9. Paulo Grangeon’s 1,600 Pandas.
10. Daan Roosegaarde’s Vacuum
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11. Aida Sulova’s Trash Cans
12. Chris Jordan’s Portraits of Consumption
13. Gabriel Orozco’s Found Objects
14. rAndom International’s Rain Room
15. Agnes Denes’s Wheatfields
16. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands
17. Mathilde Roussel’s Living Sulptures
18. Pedro Reyes’ Grasshopper Burgers
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Content: The obvious lesson of Mr. Eliasson’s installation, ‘Your waste of time,’ is that global warming is wreaking havoc on nature,” Ken Johnson wrote in The New York Times last year. 2. David Maisel’s Photographs of Open Pit Mines
David Maisel, The Mining Project (Butte, Montana 9), 1989, Archival Pigment Print, 2013, 48 x 48 inches, Edition of 5, Courtesy of the artists and Haines Gallery
At first glance, David Maisel’s gorgeous photographs seem to celebrate the natural beauty of another planet, but his deep blue swirls and red craters actually depict the aerial appearance of environmentally impacted sites in the United States transformed by water reclamation, logging, military tests and mining. “ With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics,” Maisel writes on his website. 3. Luzinterruptus’ Waste Labyrinth
Labyrinth of plastic waste from luzinterruptus on Vimeo
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This opens in a new window. The art collective Luzinterruptus has a history of tackling political and social issues in Europe. The “Labyrinth of Plastic Waste” is but one example. Download
“We were looking to demonstrate, in a poetic manner, the amount of plastic waste that is consumed daily,” Luzinterruptus explained in a statement. “ In addition to focusing attention on the big business of bottling water, which leads to very serious problems in developing countries, whose citizens have watched as their aquifers have been privatized with impunity for the exclusive enrichment of large business owners and ruling classes without scruples.”