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This book accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain offering artistic and scientific visions of trees.

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This book accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain offering artistic and scientific visions of trees.

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Accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemparain offering artistic and scientific visions on trees

Omnipresent and essential to life, trees have been underestimated by biologists. But in recent years, they have been the subject of scientific discoveries that have allowed us to see these oldest and largest members of the community of living beings in a new light. Capable of sensory perception, showing complex communication skills, living in symbiosis with many other species and influencing the climate, trees are equipped with unexpected faculties whose discovery confirms what indigenous, traditional and local communities had long acknowledged.

Featuring works by contemporary artists including forest people, scientific imagery, films, photographs and sound installations, the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, strives to highlight the beauty, ingenuity and biological richness of trees, allowing us to see and hear these impressive protagonists of the living world that now find themselves also under increasing threat. Through paintings, drawings, photographs, scientific images, maps and texts by specialists, the catalogue published to accompany the exhibition invites the reader to dive into the fascinating and beautiful world of trees.

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About the Author

Bruce Albert is an anthropologist and committed advocate of the Brazilian Yanomami, with whom he has been working since 1975. Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, and author of The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture. Francis Halle is Botany Professor at Montpellier University. Stefano Mancuso is Professor at Florence University, and a member of the Accademia dei Georgofili.

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From July 12th 2019 to January 5th 2020, the Fondation Cartier presented Trees , an ambitious exhibition devoted to trees, these exceptional living beings with unexpected faculties and yet widely threatened today. Underestimated by biologists for a long time--like the entirety of the plant kingdom--in recent years they have been the subject of scientific discoveries that have allowed us to see these organisms in a new light. Interestingly, some of these are among the oldest and largest members of this community of living things. Boasting sensory and motor skills, capable of communication, existing in symbiosis with other species and the climate, trees are equipped with unexpected faculties whose discovery confirms what traditional knowledge has long since incorporated. The veil has been lifted on a fascinating world--the world of plant intelligence--which could be the answer to many of today's technological and environmental problems. Trees allows readers to discover all of the works presented in the exhibition through almost 500 images, as well as a rich ensemble of scientific and critical texts. Combining the work of painters, photographers, architects, sculptors, philosophers, botanists and climatology specialists, this publication highlights the beauty, ingenuity and biological wealth of trees. Contributors include : Emanuele Coccia, Cesare Leonardi, Bruce Albert, Luiz Zerbini, Raymond Depardon, Jean Nouvel, Tony Oursler, Adriana Varejao, Lothar Baumgarten and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

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Publisher
Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporain | Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Published
5th September 2019
Pages
350
ISBN
9782869251458

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