By Katherine Fawcewtt
Whistler Traveller
Art is a powerful force with endless outcomes. Its beauty can inspire and uplift. Its message can provoke, entertain, and enlighten. And its poignancy can also be a sobering call to action.
The internationally acclaimed, Toronto-based artist and photographer Edward Burtynsky knows these forces well. His images, while stunning to look at, feature serious themes that cannot be ignored. Over the past 40 years, Burtynsky has focused his lens on the impact human industry has had upon the earth. The Audain Art Museum’s (AAM) upcoming exhibition, The Coast Mountains: Recent Works by Edward Burtynsky, will provide a spectacular bird’s-eye view of the splendour of the local environment while highlighting the issue of shrinking glaciers because of climate change.
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Whistler Traveller
“Many of these works are quite large, usually a minimum of one metre high and two metres wide,” says Darrin Martens, the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky chief curator of the museum. “When you’re looking at these works you become in some ways very immersed in the situation. You are part of that experience of witnessing.”
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Read MoreBy Cathryn Atkinson
Pique News Magazine
Famed Canadian fine art photographer Edward Burtynsky is in Toronto at the Telus "Our Planet, Our Future" panel with other distinguished speakers, including former astronaut Roberta Bondar and Dianne Saxe, the environmental commissioner of Ontario.
In his speech, part of which is shared on social media, he asks how many in the audience know the definition of Anthropocene, the era in which we find ourselves.
For those who don't, it refers to the geological age in which human activity dominates climate and the environment.
Burtynsky has spent three decades bearing witness to the Anthropocene as an artist, whether it is his photographs depicting the impact of the Three Gorges Dam in China, or the extraction of bitumen near Fort McMurray.
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Read MoreBy Alyssa Noel
Whistler Question
With a skilled eye, honed from years of practice, renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has the ability to make the appalling beautiful.
From a mountain of discarded tires to tailings ponds and open pit mines, upon first glance the viewer often doesn’t know what they’re looking at until they delve a little deeper.
Burtynsky’s work will be on display in Whistler through the summer at the Audain Art Museum as part of The Scarred Earth, a collection of 32 photographs.
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