Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist
Belgium

The photo exhibition WATER explores the controversial relationship between humanity and water: a basic part of our body, an essential resource for our lives and that of our planet. Indispensable and of vital importance. That makes water the most precious liquid; the new gold.

Edward Burtynsky's abstract photographs, sometimes elegant, sometimes haunting, float between the worlds of painting and photography and form a compelling portrait of water that presents itself as an open question about humanity's relationship with nature.

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CHAUMONT-PHOTO-SUR-LOIRE
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire,
Centre D'Arts et de Nature

This fourth edition of Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire brings together five artists or duo of artists linked by their emotion in front of the landscape, always standing in front of it, according to the beautiful formula of François Cheng, "open eye and beating heart", that this landscape either admired without reservation for its splendor or viewed in all the complexity of a beauty scarred by human action.

Showing Burtynsky’s images in Chaumont, a hotspot for interdisciplinary dialogue, is part of the spirit of the project, driven by the desire to bring the ecological question to the attention of as many people as possible.

A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Edward Burtynsky: Water traces in intricate detail humanity’s complex relationship with the world’s most vital natural resource through large-scale photographs taken from 2007-2013. This fall, the American University Museum is featuring Water in its virtual series “Contested Space”, which highlights issues surrounding November’s presidential election.

This body of work documents the scale and impact of harnessing and consuming the world’s water supplies in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Iceland, Asia, and India. Burtynsky chronicles the various roles that water plays in modern life: as a source of healthy ecosystems and energy, as a key element in cultural and religious rituals, and as a rapidly depleting resource.

Abbaye de Jumièges
Jumièges, France

Echoing the site of Jumièges Abbey near the Seine river, the exhibition, Flowing Waters Never Return to the Source: Photographers Gazing at the River in China * centres upon the Chinese river, a seminal theme in contemporary photography in China, as seen through the eyes of thirteen contemporary artists.

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Museum London
London, ON

This exhibition endeavours to show that realism is about so much more than making something look like something else. Artistic realism can mean capturing the world with human empathy, or supplying a hard-nosed view of the socially marginalized, or peering behind the veil of everyday appearances to uncover deeper truths. Reality remains, as John Lennon famously observed, something that “leaves a lot to the imagination.”

Spanning more than a century and drawing almost exclusively from Museum London’s permanent collection, Realisms brings together paintings, photographs, sculptures, and installations by over 40 artists. The exhibition examines the multifaceted ways the idea of “realism” has been visually interpreted by Canadian artists with different intentions, at different moments in history.

Realisms highlights ways in which artists from Charles MacMunn to Edward Burtynsky to Suzy Lake have both assumed and subverted photography’s truth-telling essence. The exhibition explores the work of painters that have, like Alex Colville, complicated the line between dreams and reality, or like Joanne Tod, have called the meaning of “the real” in an age of virtual reality into question. Realisms also explores the work of artists like Yvonne McKague Housser and Bertram Brooker whose seemingly abstract paintings are motivated by a desire to uncover a more fundamental reality, beyond appearances. Finally, the exhibition looks at artists such as Micah Lexier and Kelly Mark, whose work explores realism from a conceptual point of view.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

As part of Cuyahoga50, a citywide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the last Cuyahoga River fire and celebration of the progress made since toward clean water for all, the Cleveland Museum of Art will present two exhibitions that highlight the impact of human behavior on the environment. Featuring the work of renowned contemporary artist Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, born 1955), Water: Edward Burtynskydraws attention to current threats to clean, sustainable water and encourages visitors to reflect on individual actions that can impact the future of our planet.

Burtynsky’s global portrait explores humanity’s increasingly stressed relationship with water, the world’s most vital natural resource. Thirteen monumental color photographs survey locales from the Gulf of Mexico to the shore of the Ganges. Offering both aesthetic abstraction and concrete data, these hauntingly beautiful images encourage us to ponder whether current water-management strategies are among the great human achievements or the most dangerous failures.

The Trout Gallery
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA

“While trying to accommodate the growing needs of an expanding, and very thirsty civilization, we are reshaping the Earth in colossal ways. In this new and powerful role over the planet, we are also capable of engineering our own demise. We have to learn to think more long-term about the consequences of what we are doing, while we are doing it. My hope is that these pictures will stimulate a process of thinking about something essential to our survival; something we often take for granted—until it’s gone.” – Edward Burtynsky      

Edward Burtynsky: Water is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Arup,
8 Fitzroy Street,
London W1

The exhibition explores the multi-faceted nature of our relationship with water through photographs made by Burtynsky between 2010 and 2013 in different locations around the world, including Gujarat, India; Yunnan Province, China; Aragon, Spain; and Florida, USA.

Shot from aircraft, helicopters or drones several thousand feet above the earth, the large-format photographs are both detailed and panoramic, beautiful and disturbing. Though not immediately apparent, all the photographs in this exhibition connect to water and our use of this finite resource.

This project has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of Flowers Gallery, London.

‘The decisions we take today are the legacy we bequeath to the future.’ Edward Burtynsky

Burtynsky’s most ambitious body of work to date will be exhibited at the Borusan Contemporary, which is a pioneer with its office museum structure. “Aqua Shock: Selections from the Water Project” explores humanity’s increasingly stressed relationship with the world’s most vital natural resource.

The exhibition includes 58 photographs, all large (4 by 5 feet minimum), all extremely high-definition, and all composed with great skill. Many are aerial photographs, as his quest to rise above the ordinary translated into the use of planes, helicopters, drones, and even a 50-foot pneumatic mast.