Epoch making is not an everyday event. Anthropocene is a ‘proposed’ new epoch – one in which human (anthropos in Greek) activity has become the dominant influence on the earth’s geology and eco-systems.
Oil Bunkering 2, Niger Delta, Nigeria | 2016
Photo © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Flowers Gallery, London / Metivier Gallery, Toronto
As yet not accepted as a definition by the scientific community, it is in the art world.
The Anthropocene Project is an exhibition of new work by photographer Edward Burtynsky created in collaboration with Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, that explores the visual impact that mankind’s activity is having on nature. Taken from both aerial and subterranean perspectives, the patterns and scars of human-altered landscapes appear to form an abstracted painterly language.
Until November 24th at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK and also at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa until early 2019
