ABSTRACT
As artists move out of the studio and back to the world at large to create, process, discover and join the human community, boundaries expand and old definitions die. What emerges from the encounter between art and environmental issues is the importance of the protection of life. The staging of natural elements, such as cloud, air, sun, sea, ice, the polar bear, is accompanied by the identification of environmental damage: the natural symbolism is renewed in the light of environmental problems. In addition, exposing these natural elements to public view in galleries, museums or meeting them on the oceans and in the air is associated with the re-evaluation of the contexts of artistic production. It is not so much to say, this is art or to mix art with life, but to see how the ‘nature/culture’ chimeric product of human activities implies an aesthetic reflection on the manufacturing of environmental forms across the globe.
