Forest Windows, 2012

The artwork pledge

• GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
• QUALITY EDUCATION
• CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
• AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
• INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND

Tags

• Abstract
• Amsterdam
• Anthropocene
• Anthropology
• Arctic
• Argentina
• Biology
• Cabinet of Curiosities
• Cartography
• Climate Change
• Córdoba
• Europe
• Geology
• Hanne Darboven
• John Muir
• Landscape
• Minimalism
• Nature
• Peru
• Sculpture 3D
• South America
• Territory
• The Netherlands
• Topography
• Tropical Forest
• Works on Paper
• Zoology

About this artwork

Based on drawing, the work of Irene Kopelman is the product of an intersection of science and art. She usually approaches scientists at their sometimes remote working stations, observing their methodologies and ways of producing information. She is interested in the way we understand this information and represent it. "Forest Windows" was produced during a month-long expedition to the jungle at the Manu Learning Centre, Madre de Dios, Peru. Kopelman went there after working for a month in Antarctica, in order to understand the most contrasting landscapes: going from emptiness to exuberance, from cold to heat, and from the most minimal landscape to the most baroque possibly imaginable. "Forest Windows" – a series of gouaches and graphite drawings that depict specific areas based on a particular method of framing – presents the perspective of not being able to distance yourself from the subject studied. When immersed in the jungle, it is impossible to objectify it. There is always superimposition, overlap, interconnections.

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