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Fictional Syntheses features practices exploring non-canonical approaches to landscape. The exhibition builds around the Coloration series that NICOLÁS GARCÍA URIBURU carried out between 1968 in Venice and 2011 in Bremen. He dyed canals, rivers, fountains and lakes with fluorescein, an organic and ecologically harmless dye developed by NASA, dramatically altering the look of the urban landscape to raise awareness of environmental crises, and the connection between nature and civilization.
On June 19, 1968, Uriburu made a transgressive gesture by dyeing the waters of Venice’s Grand Canal green. This intervention coincided with the opening of the 34th Venice Biennale as well as the time of day in which the tides were at their peak. The depth, the currents, and the ebbing tide of the Grand Canal served as materials for this artwork. The coloration was an act of denunciation, and simultaneously a radical painterly gesture in which he exchanged the brushstroke and paint f…
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Fictional Syntheses features practices exploring non-canonical approaches to landscape. The exhibition builds around the Coloration series that NICOLÁS GARCÍA URIBURU carried out between 1968 in Venice and 2011 in Bremen. He dyed canals, rivers, fountains and lakes with fluorescein, an organic and ecologically harmless dye developed by NASA, dramatically altering the look of the urban landscape to raise awareness of environmental crises, and the connection between nature and civilization.
On June 19, 1968, Uriburu made a transgressive gesture by dyeing the waters of Venice’s Grand Canal green. This intervention coincided with the opening of the 34th Venice Biennale as well as the time of day in which the tides were at their peak. The depth, the currents, and the ebbing tide of the Grand Canal served as materials for this artwork. The coloration was an act of denunciation, and simultaneously a radical painterly gesture in which he exchanged the brushstroke and paint f…
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