13 January 2014
The exploitation of the planet’s natural resources has always been at the center of the work of Edward Burtynsky, whose large-format views, extremely rigorous in their composition and rich in detail, have shown us the transformations of the landscape wrought by oil rigs, mines, quarries, urban settlements and dumps for industrial waste. Water is the latest chapter in this continual documentation of our aggression on the planetary ecosystem: the 2010 environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, hydroelectric dams in China or intensive farming on a vast scale: all different facets of the pressure to which global water resources are increasingly subjected. In Burtynsky’s images “water is intermittently introduced as a victim, a partner, a protagonist,” writes the exhibition’s curator Russell Lord, “or as a source, an end, a threat and a pleasure.”
Edward Burtynsky, Water
NOMA + Cacno
Curated by Russell Lord
New Orleans
October 5, 2013 – January 19, 2014
Edward Burtynsky, VeronaWalk, Naples, Florida, USA, 2012.
Edward Burtynsky, Suburb, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2011.
Edward Burtynsky, Rice Terraces #2, Western Yunnan Province, China, 2012.
Edward Burtynsky, Dryland Farming #24, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain, 2010.
Edward Burtynsky, Dryland Farming #2, Monegros County Aragon, Spain, 2010.
Edward Burtynsky, Colorado River Delta #9, Sonora, Mexico, 2012.
Edward Burtynsky, Pivot Irrigation #11, High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA, 2011.
Edward Burtynsky, 2010. Greenhouses, Almira Peninsula, Spain, 2010.
Edward Burtynsky, Kumb Mela #1, Haridwar, India, 2010.