Paul Ardenne

Green currents

Paul Ardenne, Bénédicte Ramade

Creating for the environment

The exhibition "Courants verts - Créer pour l'environnement" (Green currents - Creating for the environment), presented at the Espace Fondation EDF, unveils the work of twenty-five French and international artists, all committed to the ecological struggle and determined to confront the challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Its three thematic axes are "Warn", "Act" and "Dream". The mood of the exhibition is not one of pessimism or collapsology, but of realism.
The aim is to show a process of adaptation. The Anthropocene is forcing humanity to adopt new practical behaviours, to rethink its relationship with the environment, and to recast its culture and mentality. Art is part of this essential transformation. The aim of "Courants verts - Créer pour l'environnement" is to reflect this. The exhibition at the Espace Fondation EDF is accompanied by a wide-ranging educational component: showing is not enough.
We need to be informed, to reflect, to make ourselves intellectually available to the crucial challenges posed by global warming, the collapse of biodiversity, pollution and the depletion of the earth's resources.

Éditions Le Bord de l'eau, March 2020
16.6 x 24.1 cm
160 pages

Ecological art

Paul Ardenne

Plastic arts and the anthropocene

Many creators, aware of the urgency of a "green" replica, are committing themselves and instituting new standards of expression, of ecological essence. To change mentalities, to repair, to rebuild the alliance with the Earth, until further notice our only possible habitat. Because the Anthropocene is here, this era in the life of our planet when the effects of human activity affect it, on the surface and in the atmosphere, more than telluric action. What's needed is action, commitment and a symbolic sense of struggle and ethics. Adapted to the demands of sustainable development, ecologically-minded visual art adopts unusual forms: working in and with nature, developing laboratories, recycling and ephemeral interventions, collaborative creation and the poetics of responsibility... Announcing a new age of art.

Éditions Le Bord de l'eau, September 2019
19.1 x 1.7 x 26 cm
288 pages