TATIANA TROUVÉ — 'August'
Internationally renowned artist Tatiana Trouvé joins the Parley movement with a limited-edition print of her original work, August, supporting Parley’s Global Cleanup Network
Tatiana Trouvé '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
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.
“A crime of a new magnitude and nature occurs silently before our eyes every day: the destruction of the Earth and the disappearance of the living. Everything is dying around us as we continue navel-gazing. Global warming is not an isolated problem. Noise and plastic pollution suffocates our oceans, resources are being unreasonably exploited, and the destruction of ecosystems and deepening of inequalities everywhere is accentuated by the demand for profits dictated by free-market financial logic. We depend on this Earth and must inhabit it intelligently, in the face of which each of our choices can change the course of things.”
Tatiana Trouvé
Image of Tatiana Trouvé photographed by Alastair Miller
TATIANA TROUVÉ: On the Eve of Never Leaving NOVEMBER 1, 2019 – JANUARY 11, 2020 GAGOSIAN. Photographed by Fredrik Nilsen Studio
Trouvé’s drawings are made up of visual fragments from the studio, the surrounding urban environment, or her personal archive of found and original images. She projects these onto the surface and captures them there in graphite, resurrecting the intangible spaces of thought and memory alongside references to so-called reality.
For the original work, Trouvé used watercolor, ink, or linseed oil to defamiliarize herself from the compositional structures to then draw in pencil unfolding, complex “environmental dramas.” While maps appear in various iterations in Trouvé’s work, here she reveals the infinite potentialities of disorientation, encouraging viewers to wander while taking on ecological questions by considering the ways in which built and destroyed environments converge.
While these landscapes allude to the political violence against Indigenous populations and the biodiversity of the rainforest, there are also hints of an ongoing alchemical practice, in which the empty planes have the possibility of becoming renewed; where perhaps the fog and ink will clear to reveal new growth.
Artists and the creative community play a vital role in the Parley movement as they are true drivers of change. Artwork that supports our mission is an invitation to reconsider our relation to the planet to ensure the basis of our future existence.
Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio
For print purchase inquires, please contact sara@parley.tv
To learn about Tatiana’s current exhibitions, visit the Gagosian
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