Opening March 13 - April 30
Exhibition
Mother Nature In the Bardo
High Line Nine
An art exhibition about the impact between art, culture, and the environment featuring over 70 artworks from over 100 international artists, galleries, institutions, estates, and foundations, in collaboration with UNESCO’s GEM Report.
Installation view, ‘Mother Nature in the Bardo.’ Photo: GC Photography.
Installation view, ‘Mother Nature in the Bardo.’ Photo: GC Photography.
Serge Attukwei Clottey
Gold Falls, Installation View, Desert X AlUla, 2022. Photo: Lance Gerber.
Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla.
Ai Weiwei
Oil Spills, 2006. Porcelain Glaze. 11 individual works. Dimensions variable, between 5 to 47 in. diameter each. Courtesy of the artist.
Donald Judd
Untitled (Menziken 88-16), 1988. Clear anodized aluminum with transparent green over black acrylic sheets and red acrylic sheets. Overall: 236.22 x 39.37 x 19.69 in. Each: 19.69 x 39.37 x 19.69 in. Photo courtesy of Thaddeus Ropac.
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Alexander Calder
Black Leafed Flowers, 1972. Gauche and ink on paper. 29 1/2 x 43 in. Courtesy of Omer Tiroche Gallery.
Nicholas Galanin
Escape from Intertia, 2020. Wolf pelt, felt. Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
Ebony G. Patterson
…BENT… AND RIPPLED IN THE SWALLOW….SUBMITTING TO ….AN ENDING, 2023. Digital print on archival watercolor paper and construction paper with hand-cut and torn elements, feather butterflies, plastic flies, and plastic roaches on custom wallpaper, 9 1/4 x 113 x 7 in. (framed). Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.
Petra Cortright
“naturist information” NERO BURNING ROM netscape proxy parent cache, Executed in 2021, Digital painting on anodized aluminum. 59 4/5 x 83 9/10 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Presented in collaboration with UNESCO’s GEM Report, Mother Nature in the Bardo explores the convergence of art, culture, and nature. The exhibition offers over 70 artworks by a selection of the most celebrated artists of our time, alongside a group of exciting emerging talent, including Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Ai Weiwei, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Lucian Freud, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Anselm Kiefer, Yayoi Kusama, Allison Janae Hamilton, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Petra Cortright, and more. Featuring a diverse array of artistic voices, styles and mediums, the exhibition showcases the vast creative interpretations of nature and its power throughout art history.
BlackBook and UNESCO collaborated on Mother Nature in the Bardo, because art education transcends boundaries. This project, through its exploration of the environment through art, ignites conversation and fosters a sense of shared responsibility.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Ai Weiwei, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Lucian Freud, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Anselm Kiefer, Cecily Brown, Yayoi Kusama, Allison Janae Hamilton, Salvador Dalí, John Chamberlain, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Marsden Hartley, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Lucio Fontana, Nicholas Galanin, Frank Gehry, Wangechi Mutu, Olafur Eliasson, Hugo McCloud, Hudson River School, Petra Cortright, Alex Katz, Jean Dubuffet, Alfred Sisley, Ansel Adams, James Rosenquist, Robert Longo, Agnes Pelton, Jean Arp, Ebony G. Patterson, Jay Heikes, April Gornik, Kathleen Jacobs, Fawn Rogers, Fred Tomaselli, Takis, Rachel Kneebone, Dinos Chapman, Elaine Sturtevant, and more.
The Book
A comprehensive survey featuring over 200 artworks, with forewords by curators Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), and Lucia Pietroiusti, Head of Ecologies at Serpentine (London), and essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator and Artistic Director at Serpentine, and Manos Antoninis, Director of the GEM Report, UNESCO, among others. Printed on sustainably produced paper, the book will be available at museums, retail stores, and online.