ARTIST EDITIONS
Tatiana Trouvé, NIGEL COOKE, VIK MUNIZ and other artists support the oceans with exclusive prints
Tatiana Trouvé
Internationally renowned, Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé has dedicated a limited-edition print based on her original drawing, August, to support Parley and the initiatives of our Global Cleanup Network. August, was the first creation in her drawing series, The Great Atlas of Disorientation that was exhibited at the Gagosian Beverly Hills. The concept for her piece began with an image of the Amazon rainforest burning in the month of August 2019, when the Amazon, Siberia, and Indonesia experienced devastating fires. For Trouvé, the press images of these fires, as the haze of smoke lingered, began to resemble landscape paintings of the Romantic period such as those of Caspar David Friedrich, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. However, in this case, it was the landscape itself that was in ruins. The work evolved into an investigation of the history of depicting landscapes, from painting to land art, and its political dimensions when witnessing dramatic events or disasters.
The limited-edition print helps to support Parley’s global mission to protect the oceans, climate and life, and marks the start of the artist’s collaboration with Parley. 100% of the proceeds will help fund plastic interception, education and communication, material science and eco-innovation.
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'August', 2019, From the series The Great Atlas of Disorientation, 2019
Pigment print on paper 62x100 cm (24.4 x 39.37 in)
Edition of 25 prints. Signed and numbered on front ©Tatiana Trouvé.
Photo by Florian Kleinefenn
Vik Muniz
In 2021, Parley teamed up with internationally renowned Brazilian artist Vik Muniz to release a limited edition photography print – entitled Paisagem – to support the work of our Global Cleanup Network in Brazil.
Inspired by an original photograph of Guanabara-Bay in Rio de Janeiro, the artwork is assembled from thousands of bits and pieces of plastic debris, composed in the form of a mosaic-like relief, and measures over 1000 square feet. Vik Muniz's reinterpretation of the famous bay repurposes discarded materials for their aesthetic qualities and confronts us with one of the most fundamental challenges we are facing today: marine plastic pollution.
All proceeds from Paisagem will support beach cleanups and educational projects in Brazil, working across marine plastic interception, remote island cleanups, environmental education and oil spill remediation.
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Paisagem, 2012/2019
C-Print mounted on aluminum. 20 x 24 inches
Print edition (digital chromogenic print), ED 45 + 5 AP, Certificate of authenticity, signed and numbered
Retail price: USD $5,500 (print on aluminum, unframed)
Nigel Cooke
Contemporary British artist Nigel Cooke created a limited-edition print in support of the Parley Global Cleanup Network based on his original series titled, Oceans, exhibited at Pace Gallery Geneva, November 11 - January 9, 2021. Inspired by the artist’s experiences living on the coast of England, the paintings in Oceans merge poetic metaphor with both natural and psychic environments. With an energy informed by sea swimming, interpretations on myth and the lyricism of ballet, the artwork weaves together — in oceanic blue — reflections on natural forces and the unpredictability of painting. The work is at once meditations on the sea and responses to characters in Homer’s Odyssey. Read more on his practice and process here.
Nigel describes experiences in waters on the coast of England as the source of a personal perspective shift. Becoming a sea swimmer led him to consider the health of the global Ocean as an ecosystem, and to question his role in its protection. He explains, “you are not an observer but a participant, and this logically suggests the ethics and scope of that participation. Am I doing enough? Am I doing what I can to contribute to the preservation of this part of our planet?” Like the oceans, art is a connecting force — and one that can draw us to new ways of creating, thinking and living. Artists are therefore powerful agents of change in the environmental cause.
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Oceans, 2020
Oil and acrylic on linen, 224.9 cm × 164 cm (88-9/16" × 64-9/16")
© Nigel Cooke
Georg Dokoupil
The German-Czech Jiří Georg Dokoupil is a perfectionist. He has been working again and again on the so-called soap bubble paintings for almost three decades. Without a brush, the abstract, playfully light "soap bubble paintings" are created. The bubbles sink to the canvas, burst when touching its surface and leaving their image due to color and pigments in the lye. These traces have an amazing three-dimensionality and the self-contained forms seem to float in front of the monochrome background and emerge plastically.
In order to break new ground in painting, Dokoupil began early on to develop unusual techniques that do not require brushes or oil paint at all: For example, he created the candle paintings, for which he uses the soot of burning candles as a "painting medium," or the tire paintings, in which he applies the paint with rolling car tires. He has developed around 100 different techniques. This results in a particularly broad and exciting spectrum of artistic forms of expression and innovations within the classical medium of painting. He constantly reinvents himself, experiments and perfects until he achieves absolute mastery and singularity in one of the techniques he uses.
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Untitled, 2021
Inkjet print on fine art paper
92 x 92 cm; 36.2 x 36.2 in (unframed)
100 cm x 100 cm (framed)
45 + 10 AP, signed and numbered
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