They Painted The Mountains White.
The 2020 Verbier Art Summit released this zine by El Último Grito (2020 speakers Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo) and Stuart Bannocks.
Made possible by Deste Foundation and Dakis Joannou, the zine entitled “They Painted the Mountains White” is a visual and written story exploring the continuity of time and space under the 2020 Summimt theme “Resource Hungry.”
Organised in partnership with acclaimed museum director Jessica Morgan, Nathalie de Gunzburg Director of New York’s Dia Art Foundation. The 2020 Verbier Art Summit took place on 31 January – 1 February 2020 in Verbier, Switzerland around the theme: RESOURCE HUNGRY: OUR CULTURED LANDSCAPE AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPACT The 2020 Verbier Art Summit asked how to envision a way forward in finding harmony between art, ecology and resources. See verbierartsummit.org to stream the talks and more.
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Speaking of photographs, in their charming mess of a presentation for the opening panel of the summit, the design duo El Último Grito showed a clip from the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses in which a man brings his old broom along to the pub and proudly proclaims that it has had seventeen new heads, and fourteen new handles. “How the hell can it be the same bloody broom then?” asks his mate, to which the broom owner answers: “Here’s a picture of it, what more proof do you need?” El Último Grito spun this riff on Theseus’s ship onto the natural world in recalling the cloning of sheep—Theseus’s sheep, of course. When nature can be manufactured artificially, the whole idea of the original is called into question—just as the concept of art, as a type of cultural production obsessed with both stylization and authenticity, contradicts itself. In the end, can the picture of a broom serve as evidence of anything?