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The “Vanité” Series by 1011

1011, Anthropocene, art + politics, climate crisis, ecological crisis, global warming, Vanité

“A humble flower is the labor of centuries.”
– William Blake

from the Artist’s Statement:
“The title (of this collection): “Vanité” refers to the pride of Men who, like Icarus, think they can conquer nature through technological omnipotence industrialization, while in truth, only offer death…”

Contemporary artist 1011 evokes the the threat of global warming by depicting the devastating impact of incremental temperature increases of +1.0º, +1.2º+1.5º, +1.8º, +2.0º+2.1º, +2.2º, +2.8º, +2.9º, +3.0º, +3.1º +3.2º, and finally +4.2º will have on the beautiful flowers that bloom in our landscapes, poetry, and literature.

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1011

Artiste contemporaine

Abeilles en liberté (02-07-2024)

Talking About Ecology Like a Contemporary Artist

by Stéphane Bonnet

excerpt:

As a visual artist, 1011 (the entity she forms with a philosopher husband) questions recent history, takes a critical look at the domination that technology exercises over humans and, through certain creations presented in series, take on subjects such as the ecological crisis or the decline of life…Her series entitled Medea’s Dress, evoking pesticide poisoning, hits the mark particularly well, as does her approach to plastic pollution in her Panta Rhei series. By browsing some of her series, we return to what emerges from her reflections, to her visual language and to the relationships she imagines between art and politics…

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1011 Gallery Shows in 2024:

March 21 to March 24

Galerie Gaia – Nantes

Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair
Domus Maubourg, Paris 7th, France

June 16 to November 3

Réaumur Science Manor

8 rue Ferchault,
85700 RÉAUMUR, France

Also of Interest:
Anthropocene Series

“The human footprint on the planetary environment has become so vast and intense that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in terms of impact on the Earth system.”
-Paul Crutzen

from the Artist’s Statement:
“Commissioned by the Grenoble Museum , this series is produced in the spirit of 18th century paleontology plates.

Fossils of ammonites, fish or trilobites are precisely reproduced. However, an element in each of the plates does not come from geological time but from the contemporary period. Plastic toys, silicone objects, are included in the board. Objects not coming from slow natural sedimentation but from the immediacy of our modern world.

The fossils which have wonderfully reached us through the very slow process of sedimentation are contrasted with their plastic ersatz , modern fossils. These will be found in nature in millions of years…”