New Eden 4199

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Work: The project I conducted in Antarctica with video installations, photos, and performances in the course of nine expeditions ponders on the effects of climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula and is based upon the research of scientists from the National Antarctic Affairs, regarding, for instance, the presence of methane gas and the disappearance of ice shelves. The idea was to take art to Antarctica and develop short-lived sites-specifics as a praise of sorts, displaying a peaceful presence. And once the exhibition came to an end, the biosphere was to be left just as it had been found. The only trace/work that has remained is a series of video and photographic records plus the recollections of the inhabitants. New Eden, 2012 The last two decades were probably the warmest in the last five centuries. In 20 years there have been changes in the glaciers and the ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula brought about by the atmosphere and ocean warming. The biggest changes are related to the disintegration of the A and B sectors of the Larsen Ice Shelf. Due to the disappearance of these ice shelves, an extraordinary treasure of specimens has been found in the depths of the Weddell Sea, on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. This ecosystem, that had remained stable under a layer of ice for the last thousand years, is being exposed after the collapse of over 10,000 sq km of ice in the last 15 years due to the increase of the temperature in the wake of the climate change.

Biography: Andrea Juan works with photography, digital video, graphic art and installations. Since 2004 she has carried out performances and video installations in Antarctica based on scientist researches related to climate changes. For this project she received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2005. In 2010 and 2007 she receives the Canadian Studies Faculties Research Program, grant. She was invited to participate at the IVth Beijing International Art Biennale 2010 where she was awarded. She also obtained Gold Amazons Award at Benin Photo Festival; Mention at Polar Identity, Switch Online Journal and Cadre New Media Lab at San Jose University, California; UNESCO Awards, France, National Fund of Arts and Antorchas Foundation grants. She received as well mayor awards from Konex Foundation (2002 and 2012), Argentine Association of Critics, National Museum of Fine Arts, International Critics Association and National Academy of Fine Arts among others. She is currently Head of Cultural Projects from National Antarctic Bureau of Argentine Ministry and Professor of Visual Art at National University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires. Her latest solo exhibition were at Expo Yeosu, Korea; Praxis International Art, New York, US; Boston Gallery MDFA; Washington, US; Expo Shanghai and National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, US; Galería Du Parc, Quebec, Canada; Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Candiani Cultural Center, Venice, Italy; Francis Greenburger Collection, New York; Tigre Art Museum, Buenos Aires; Praxis International Art New York Miami and Buenos Aires; National Museum of Natural Science, Buenos Aires, RAM Foundation, Rotterdam, Holland ; Museum of Latin American Art, Buenos Aires; Telefonica Foundation, Buenos Aires; University of West of England, Bristol, UK; Vauxhall Centre, London; U.K.; National Fund of Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Juttner Gallery, Vienna, Austria and Presse Papier Centre, Quebec, Canada. Since 1990 she has exhibited extensively worldwide at Ear to the Earth Festival, New York; 1º Contemporary Art Biennial of the End of the World, Ushuaia, Argentina; Video Box at the Chelsea gallery, New York, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Roger Smith Gallery, New York; M21-The Museum of 21st Century Art, Gansevoort South, Miami, U.S.; Walsh Art Gallery, Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, U.S.; 9° La Havana International Biennial, CUBA; R3 Gallery,Quebec University, CANADA; Art Omi International Arts Center, New York, U.S.; Photo New York; Art Chicago; International Biennial Rotterdam; Art Toronto; Prenelle Gallery, London; International Graphic Triennial, Tallin; International Young Art, Sotheby’s Amsterdam; Flatgalleries, Chicago; International Young Art, Mars Gallery, Moscow; Robert Tatum Studio, Houston Texas; International Biennial , Ljubljana; The Genia Schrieber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; National Art Gallery of Seoul; El Aleph video gallery , Roma; International Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw; The Millenium Art Collection, The Hague; St Martin´s Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London; Space 21Gallery, Tokyo; London Royal Academy, London, UK. In 2004 were published “Getting Over” followed by “Antarctica Project” in 2006, “Polar South” in 2008, “Polar South II” in 2010 and “Polar South III” in 2011. During 1996/1998 she developed a project on non-toxic printmaking with Photopolymers and co-founded “Ultraviolet”. She curated group and solo shows at the Technological Museum in Mexico DF, Contemporary Art Gallery, Xalapa, Mexico; Hertfordshire University; Museum of National University of Tres de Febrero; Cultural Center from Spain in BA; Borges Cultural Center; National Museum of Printmaking, Sivori Museum of Art and Femmes Artistes a travers le monde, Quebec- Buenos Aire.
Photographer: Andrea Juan
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source: theartjunkie

Fascinated by the Antarctic tundra, Andrea Juan creates works that place boldly colored man-made objects against the ice. In New Species (2011) bright colors warm the landscape while reminding the viewer of global warming. The performance installation New Eden (2012) took place in Antarctica last winter. Large pieces of mesh in neon colors flow over large expanses of ice without touching the ground. Like soft and delicate living organisms, the sheer net moves between the shapes of ice blocks in the land and clouds in the sky, while changing the perception of an otherwise frosty landscape. -Artnet (Above & Below, from New Eden series)

Andrea Juan works with photography, digital video, graphic art and installations, exhibiting her works internationally and curating group and solo exhibitions. Since 2004 she has carried out performances and video installations in Antarctica based on scientist investigations related to climate changes.
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source: foto-ruta

Esta artista bonaerense es licenciada en Artes Visuales, trabaja las disciplinas de video, instalación fotografía y obra gráfica, y su originalidad radica en que su obra se basa en investigaciones científicas y tiene un contenido reflexivo sobre el medio ambiente. A partir del año 2004 comenzó el “Proyecto Antártida” realizando video instalaciones y performances en el continente Antártico basadas en investigaciones científicas sobre la incidencia del cambio climático en la península. Ha participando en cinco campañas antárticas y actualmente se desempeña como Jefa de Proyectos Culturales de la Dirección Nacional del Antártico, Cancillería Argentina.

Andrea Juan, realiza desde hace años sorprendentes intervenciones artísticas en distintas bases de la Antártida, en los que recrea, los descubrimientos científicos hechos en este continente. Debido a la desaparición de las barreras de hielo en los últimos quince años, en la Península Antártica se han encontrado nuevos especímenes que había permanecido estable bajo una capa de hielo. La artista, trabajando con los científicos muestra un trabajo resultado de la fusión entre arte y ciencia.

La obra de esta artista no deja indiferente a nadie, tanto por su estética como por lo que con ella nos quiere expresar, advirtiendo del peligro que la intervención humana puede causar, al ocasionar un cambio climático que es posible que genere catástrofes de dimensiones inimaginables. No nos podemos perder esta exposición de acceso libre que estará abierta los siete días de la semana y que es una ocasión única para conocer la obra de esta gran artista.
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source: andreajuan

It’s the driest, emptiest, coldest, most paradoxical place on earth. An ice sheet nearly 3 miles thick covers all but 2.4 percent of its 5.4 million square miles. It’s arguable who was the first man to set foot on it, but it wasn’t until 1935 that the first woman set foot there. It’s a veritable desert whose driest valleys haven’t seen rain in more than 20 million years, yet it constitutes 70% of all the earth’s water as solid ice. It’s in darkness for 6 months of the year, when the earth is tilted away from the sun. It’s the continent of Antarctica.

Although many more artists have created works in the Arctic, it’s again Antarctica where Argentine artist Andrea Juan has chosen to create her latest series of works, New Species New Eden, reflecting the changes of the icy continent, morphed and shrunk by global climate changes. Currently Head of Cultural Projects from National Antarctic Affairs of Argentine Chancellery and Professor of Visual Art at National University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, since 2004 she has carried out performances and video installations in Antarctica based on scientific investigations related to climate changes. Juan’s conscientious work has low impact on the fragile environment, and documents her installation and performance events of impermanent markmakings in the environment, and transient gestures of colorful lines in space, on film and video.

This continent of ice caps atop landmasses has been termed an improbable, fragile, even the true Eden, as well as the site of Atlantis. Fifty million years ago Antarctica had a temperate climate with evergreen forests and animals that eventually perished as the icecaps slowly formed. This once-warm climate is evidenced by the fossils of plants, including ferns, uncovered by the current auto-excavation of the Larsen ice shelves by global warming, with specimens found in the Weddell Sea off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic Peninsula has again warmed significantly over recent decades, literally uncovering another deleterious amplifying impact on the environment: subglacial methanogenic microbes in the subglacial lakes that will potentially release significant quantities of the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

Against the stark landscape, the artist has created scenarios that reference the critical aspects of global warming: the rise of water levels, the acidification of the ocean, and the release of methane. Her current series of photographs and moving images convey an excavated edenic site populated with anonymous ideal bodies and flora: new species of algae, phytoplankton, and lichen. The dramatic large-scale color images in The New Eden series are inventive interventions played against the stark desert that surrounds the southern pole. The artist works with tulle, chosen for its color and transparency, associating certain colors with dangerous gases and materials. In one image the colorful new foliage is born aloft, like a kite in the Antarctic winds. Invaginations extending downward from the surface of the forms invoke new plant morphologies. O-shaped and circular shapes in colorful felt read as lichen, and new species of algae. Balls of red and yellow forms in felt with contrasting blue and green stripes, respectively, represent phytoplankton, upon which the shrimp-like crustaceans known as krill feed, forming the critical base of the region’s food pyramid.

In her current video, made in the Antarctic summer of 2011, an anonymous lone dark-haired and bearded man dressed in black, stands in the landscape, with balls made of colorful felt worn about his trunk like a backpack, in sharp contrast to the monochrome environs. He appears again, holding the balls, representing new plant life, aloft against the backdrop of a rushing glacial cataract in Juan’s new edenic Antarctic. For the first time, animals appear in her videos: a dark still abstract shape on the ice moves and reveals itself as a Weddell seal. An Antarctic dove and a Papua penguin inhabit the stark landscape. There are magical moments: one perspective captures the rhythmic motions of sea ice slush, mimicking breathing. In another frame a drop from the tip of an icicle captures the redness of a nearby object and for an instant it appears that the icicle is bleeding. The monochrome nature of the landscape is contrasted with the subtle pastel tones of the sky captured in pinks and blues in one scene, and a spectral rainbow in another. Alexei Pliousnine, a Russian musician mixing natural and digitalized sounds of moving glaciers with other ambient sounds, composed the track that underscores the video’s varying moods.

Andrea Juan’s newest works are celebratory imaginative re-invigorations of the paleobotany and microenvironments that have been revealed by the loss of the ice shelves in Antarctica. Rather than highlighting the geopolitical aspects of the protocol controversies, she brings deft lyrical allusional attention to one of the most deserted yet critical areas on the planet. Through majestic sweeping gestures in the outdoors, she posits a hopeful harmonious relationship of idealized individuals working with new species on the warming icy continent.

Juan works with photography, digital video, graphic art and installations. Since 2004 she has carried out performances and video installations in Antarctica based on scientist investigations related to climate changes. For this project she received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. In 2010 and 2007 she receives the Canadian Studies Faculties Research Program, grant. She also obtained UNESCO Awards (France), National Fund of Arts and Antorchas Foundation grants. She received as well mayor awards from Konex Foundation, Argentine Association of Critics, National Museum of Fine Arts, International Critics Association and National Academy of Fine Arts. Honorable Mention, Polar Identity: SWITCH Online Journal and CADRE New Media Lab from San Jose State University, California. U.S.A and 4th Beijing International Art Biennale Award 2010, China. She is currently Head of Cultural Projects from National Antarctic Affairs of Argentine Chancellery and Professor of Visual Art at National University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires.

Her latest solo exhibition were at Expo Shanghai and National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing in China; ADC Contemporary Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Candiani Cultural Center, Mestre Venice, Italy; Du Parc Gallery, Quebec; Francis Greenburger Collection, New York; Tigre Art Museum, Buenos Aires; Praxis International Art New York Miami and Buenos Aires; National Museum of Natural Science, Buenos Aires, RAM Foundation, Rotterdam, Holland ; Museum of Latin American Art, Buenos Aires; Telefonica Foundation, Buenos Aires; University of West of England, Bristol, UK; Vauxhall Centre, London; U.K.; National Fund of Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Juttner Gallery, Vienna, Austria and Presse Papier Centre, Quebec, Canada.

She curated group and solo shows at Technological Museum in Mexico DF; Museum of National University of Tres de Febrero, Cultural Center from Spain in BA, Borges Cultural Center; National Museum of Printmaking, Sivori Museum of Art and Femmes Artistes a travers le monde, Quebec- Buenos Aires.

In 2004 was published “Getting Over” followed by “Antarctica Project” in 2006 and “Polar South” in 2008.

During 1996/1998 she developed a project on non-toxic printmaking with Photopolymers and co-founded “Ultraviolet”.

Since 1990 she has exhibited extensively worldwide at Ear to the Earth Festival, New York; 1º Contemporary Art Biennial of the End of the World, Ushuaia, Argentina; Video Box at the Chelsea gallery, New York, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Roger Smith Gallery, New York; M21-The Museum of 21st Century Art, Gansevoort South, Miami, U.S.; Walsh Art Gallery, Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, U.S.; 9° La Havana International Biennial, CUBA; R3 Gallery,Quebec University, CANADA; Art Omi International Arts Center, New York, U.S.; Photo New York; Art Chicago; International Biennial Rotterdam; Art Toronto; Prenelle Gallery, London; International Graphic Triennial, Tallin; International Young Art, Sotheby’s Amsterdam; Flatgalleries, Chicago; International Young Art, Mars Gallery, Moscow; Robert Tatum Studio, Houston Texas; International Biennial , Ljubljana; The Genia Schrieber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; National Art Gallery of Seoul; El Aleph video gallery , Roma; International Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw; The Millenium Art Collection, The Hague; St Martin´s Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London; Space 21Gallery, Tokyo; London Royal Academy, London, UK.