In its ongoing exploration of the state of the world, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art addresses major current issues, including ecological issues related to the relationship between man and nature. And this year, it has chosen to join forces with major international institutions devoted to contemporary creation to present four major exhibitions on the theme of the relationship to the living: La Lutte Yanomami au Shed (New York), Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori and We Are Forest at Triennale Milano (Milan), and Bernie Krause, The Great Animal Orchestra at the Exploratorium (San Francisco).
Bringing together artists, thinkers and scientists engaged in an aesthetic and existential quest, deeply marked by the enigmatic beauty of the living world, the Cartier Foundation offers fundamental reflections on the destruction of the animal and plant kingdoms, climate change or the disappearance of languages and indigenous cultures.
She also maintains a long-term relationship with artists belonging to the Yanomami community, one of the largest indigenous peoples living in the Amazon, and those of the Nivaklé and Guaraní of the Paraguayan Chaco. It never ceases to bear witness to the essential link that unites them to their environment and the threats weighing on their survival. Their experience and their immemorial tradition of parity between living beings, humans and non-humans, invite us to rethink a new terrestrial cohabitation with plants and animals.
These many dialogues give rise to new works and unexpected exhibitions, which the Fondation Cartier shares with ever wider audiences in France and around the world.
This year, the Cartier Foundation is joining forces with major international institutions devoted to contemporary creation to present a series of major exhibitions embodying its commitment to the theme of the relationship with the living: La Lutte Yanomami at the Shed (New York), Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori and We Are Forest at Triennale Milano (Milan), Bernie Krause, The Great Animal Orchestra at the Exploratorium (San Francisco).
LA LUTTE YANOMAMI, from February 3 to April 16, 2023 at the Shed, New York
This is the first presentation in North America of The Yanomami Struggle, a large-scale exhibition dedicated to the collaboration and friendship between activist artist Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami, one of the largest indigenous peoples living in Amazon today.
After the success of the exhibitions presented at the IMS in São Paulo, at the Cartier Foundation and at the Barbican Center in London in particular, the exhibition at the Shed, under the curatorship of Thyago Nogueira, Director of Contemporary Photography at the IMS and the supervision of the Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, is enriched with more than 80 drawings and paintings by artists André Taniki, Ehuana Yaira, Joseca Mokahesi, Orlando Naki Uxima, Poraco Hiko, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwë and Vital Warasi.
Visitors are also invited to discover new films directed by Aida Harika, Edmar Tokorino, Morzaniel Iramari and Roseane Yariana. These works are presented next to more than 200 photographs taken by Claudia Andujar.
The dialogue woven between contemporary Yanomami artists and the photographs of Claudia Andujar offers an unprecedented vision of Yanomami culture and community. The exhibition of works by its artists, shown in New York for the very first time, represents the most comprehensive presentation of Yanomami art in North America to date.
The exhibition is organized in partnership with the Brazilian NGOs Hutukara Associação Yanomami and Instituto Socioambiental, in collaboration with the anthropologist Bruce Albert (consultant for the Cartier Foundation and co-author of The Falling Sky), as well as the missionary Carlo Zacquini.
MIRDIDINGKINGATHI JUWARNDA, SALLY GABORI, from February 16 to May 14, 2023, at Triennale Milano, Milan
After its resounding critical and public success in Paris, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents the personal exhibition of Aboriginal artist Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori in Milan. Considered one of the greatest Australian contemporary artists of the past two decades, Sally Gabori began painting in 2005, around the age of 80, and quickly achieved national and international artistic fame.
In a few years of rare creative intensity, until her death in 2015, she developed a unique work in vibrant colors with no apparent connection with other aesthetic currents, particularly within contemporary Aboriginal painting.
Bringing together around thirty monumental paintings, the exhibition is produced in close collaboration with the artist’s family and the Kaiadilt community, as well as with the greatest specialists in Kaiadilt art and culture.
WE ARE FOREST, from June to November 2023, at Triennale Milano, Milan
Continuing a dialogue initiated by the Fondation Cartier more than twenty years ago, this exhibition specially designed for Triennale Milano is an unprecedented experience of meeting and sharing between artists, thinkers and passionate defenders of the forest, on both sides of Atlantic.
From the Amazon to the Vendée, where visual artist Fabrice Hyber has invited Yanomami artists from Brazil to reside, they all bring us a fundamental aesthetic and political message on the need to rethink our place among the living.
Concentrated around artists from Latin America, We Are Forest presents among others the works of Jaider Esbell (Macuxi, Brazil), Cleiber Bane (Huni Kuin, Brazil), Floriberta Femin, Angelica Klassen, Esteban Klassen, Marcos Ortiz (Chaco, Paraguay), Sheroanawe Hakiihiwë, Joseca Mokahesi and Ehuana Yaira (Yanomami). , Venezuela and Brazil), Johanna Calle (Colombia), Alex Cerveny, Bruno Novelli, Santidio Pereira, Solange Pessoa, Adriana Varejao and Luiz Zerbini (Brazil).
BERNIE KRAUSE, THE GREAT ORCHESTRA OF ANIMALS, from June 10 to October 15, 2023, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco
This immersive work celebrates the rich biodiversity of our planet and pleads for the preservation of the beauty of the animal world. Created by the American bioacoustician Bernie Krause and the London studio United Visual Artists (UVA), it was carried out on the initiative of the Fondation Cartier for his eponymous exhibition in Paris in 2016.
After the success of its roaming in Seoul, Shanghai, Milan, London, Boston, Sydney and Lille, The Great Animal Orchestra stopped in California, home of Bernie Krause. In this state plagued by megafires and extreme meteorological phenomena, the presentation of this major work from the Fondation Cartier collection will have a particular resonance.
Trained as a musician, Bernie Krause has collected nearly 5,000 hours of sound recordings of wild natural habitats, land and sea, inhabited by nearly 15,000 species of animals for more than fifty years. Very early on, he discovered the musical harmony and the quasi-orchestral organization of these sound spaces, within which each species spontaneously finds its “acoustic niche”.
Bernie Krause’s research has also revealed that the great orchestra of animals, increasingly threatened by human activity, risks being permanently silenced.
Header photo : Claudia Andújar, Catrimani, Roraima, 1972-1976. Collection de l’artiste. © Claudia Andújar
