Climate Neoplasticism
This is a serial work focused on the formal representation of environmental collapse through actions that relate various theoretical, poetic or vindicatory texts and certain references to the artwork of Piet Mondrian, articulated through books that act as symbolic objects, books that provide the body to the series, spaces for reflection, pages to be written.
Mondrian interpreted that art should be represented through the straight line and pure colours as a symbol of the expression of cosmic order, becoming one of the great advocates of abstraction and one of the most admired and influential artists of the 20th century. This idea of ‘cosmic order’, of balance or imbalance, focuses us on what is the greatest crisis in the current history of our time: climate change (The Broken Cosmic Order).
As Chomsky noted in 2022:
“We have a very narrow window of opportunity to solve the problems and stop the destruction of the environment. If we reach this tipping point, which is irreversible, we can kiss each other goodbye”.
Through a new version of neoplasticism, supported by books and texts, dystopian novel titles, aphorisms, fragments of essays, poems and proclamations of the climate demands of social movements such as Fridays for Future, this series addresses a reflection on one of the most complex problems that humanity must face in the coming decades.
The work undertakes a kind of abstraction that somehow challenges us as co-responsible; an exercise in looking at the history of Art as a vehicle base, updated in current concepts and formats; a relational series that proposes different layers of reading and poetic-political representation, seeking that transcendental balance between aesthetics and discourse.
