By Charlotte Metcalf
Country & Town House
Having seen Edward Burtynsky’s recent retrospective at the Saatchi Gallery, I am eager to meet him. When he arrives, he appears upbeat for someone who has spent much of his life creating images out of the catastrophically destructive impact of industrialisation.
From a distance many of his images look like huge, beautiful, expressionist paintings. Move closer and you see they are photographs, which appear to have been taken from miles up, showing landscapes decimated by humanity’s activity – logging, mining, quarrying, railways, rubbish dumping, ship-breaking, intensive agriculture, building. The beauty he finds in destruction comprises the central ambiguity at his work’s core, imbuing it with persuasive power that urges us to take the necessary drastic action to save our planet.
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Read MoreNational Geographic Italia
An unprecedented retrospective of the forty-year career of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is open to the public until January 12, 2025 at the Museo del 900 (M9) in Mestre (VE).
After the successful debut at the Saatchi Gallery in London, the exhibition BURTYNSKY: Extraction / Abstraction has landed in Italy. As expected given the environmentalist background of this photographer, the exhibition focuses on the environmental consequences of human actions, especially industry, on the landscape.
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Read MoreBy Tim Fujio
Setting Mind
The M9 – Museo del ‘900 in Venice Mestre is set to showcase “BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction,” the largest solo exhibition of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, from June 21, 2024, to January 12, 2025. Curated by Marc Mayer and designed by Alvisi Kirimoto, the exhibition provides an in-depth look at Burtynsky’s extensive work documenting the environmental impacts of human activity.
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Read MoreBy Georgia Magrin
Exibart
Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction is the largest exhibition ever held in the over 40-year career of the great Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky . Curated by Marc Mayer, director of the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Montreal, this exhibition, after debuting at the Saatchi Gallery in London, comes to Italy for the first time.
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Read MoreBy Katherine Ylitalo
Galleries West
“If you are going to have only one Burtynsky book, this is the one.” Upon this recommendation from a knowledgeable friend, I dove into the latest book on the work of world-renowned Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky. The new take on his 45-year career accompanies the exhibition Edward Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction at the Saatchi Gallery, which was shown Feb. 14 to May 6, 2024, in London, and will travel to Italy later this summer.
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