Guided by artists, scientists, historians and communicators, and through the creative process of certain painters in the Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza collection, this webdoc dives into different life stories that invite us to rethink our relationship with nature. Shall we get started?
joaquín araújo
The languages of nature
«Paintings are instants of the forest, moments that pass from fleeting to eternal».
«I FEEL IMPELLED TO EMBRACE THE EARTH» CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD
RocÍo Alonso
An invisible mesh
«My relationship with nature is like an anchor to the earth. It’s about entering a rest state to reconnect with life’s rhythms and be aware of the mesh I am a part of».
«Looking to the past enriches our vision of the future. In the American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, we find a desire to create environmental awareness».
«DO YOU FEEL LIKE FLOWERS SOMETIMES?» GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
MATT McGRATH
Ways of acting
«The interaction between art and science has enormous potential to decisively influence actions against climate change. The message needs to be conveyed with passion and creativity».
«IT IS WITH A CERTAIN FEELING OF URGENCY THAT I SEEK THE NATURE, SUBJECT, WORDS OF THE OTHER STORY, THE UNTOLD ONE, THE LIFE STORY»
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Conversation
Art and Science
What role does art play in our reflections on nature? How can science and art work together? What challenges does the future hold?
Coming together for a shared dialogue in the museum galleries, different experts discuss the need to develop a common ground for action and reflection between art and science in order to rethink our relationship with the planet. Art connects with emotions and has the power to create collective imagery that encourages us to seek responsible engagement with nature. Science, for its part, allows us to explore the visible world and observe its processes so that we can explain the environmental reality of the world we live in.
Chief Curator at TBA21
SOLEDAD GUTIÉRREZ
«Modernity has pulled us away from nature. Having a horizontal relationship with ecosystems has become a ground-breaking notion, and it shouldn’t be.»
Research professor
FERNANDO VALLADARES
«We scientists have a duty to make people thrill to the things we can't see. We need to raise awareness about how and where we live.»
Fine Arts Professor
TONIA RAQUEJO
«Our culture’s ocularcentrism is a problem. Forgetting the rest of our senses has distanced us from natural processes. We need to embody our contact with nature.»
Artist
JUAN DEL JUNCO
«The museum should be a place of resistance [...] artists must take up the banner of change in an attempt to save the planet from its current predicament.»
