The Errant Æsthete

These are just a few of the incredible sights that await you at the After Nature Exhibit at the New Museum, running now through September 21. This astonishing surveys a landscape of wilderness and ruins, darkened by uncertain catastrophe. It is a story of abandonment, regression, and rapture—an epic of humanity and nature coming apart under the pressure of obscure forces and not-so-distant environmental disasters. Bringing together an international and multigenerational group of artists, filmmakers, writers, and outsiders, the exhibition depicts a universe in which humankind is being eclipsed and new ecological systems struggle to find a precarious balance.

Featured above: Huma Bhabha (b. 1962), legs, and arms, and heads, 2008. Clay, wire, Styrofoam, wood, aluminum, iron, plastic, paper, and acrylic. Below: Allora and Calzadilla (b. 1974, b. 1971), Growth (Survival), 2006. Grafted tropical plants and Jenny Holzer’s Blue Wall Tilt, 2004 (6 double-sided LCD screens with bright blue diodes in stainless steel housings.

See the online presentation here:

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