Until the 1 of November, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires will carry out the cycle “Enough! Art in the face of the environmental crisis ", a meeting that aims to raise awareness about this issue.

It is a series of activities based on the participation of essayists such as the sociologist Maristella Svampa and artists including Tomás Saraceno or Matías Duville.

During 2020, the pandemic complicated a scene affected for a long time by the levels of pollution, devastation and environmental catastrophe, at the same time that it triggered the debates on the responsibility of human activity as responsible for this predation.

In this context, The Modern Museum decided to launch a program over the next three weeks that will focus on a group of Argentine and international artists who, on the one hand, reveal through their works the historical-social plots that explain the emergence and, for the other, propose aesthetic micro-policies to collaborate in the redirection of environmental policies.

As the Argentine artist Nicolás García Uriburu once argued, pioneer in drawing the link between art and ecology, We are on time “to rectify our mistakes, take care of our environment and be more worthy of living on our wonderful planet”.

“Artistic practice places diverse ways of reflection and imagination within our reach in a framework that links natural exhaustion, ambition and fear, with possibilities of change and renewal, to rethink the terms of environmental and social justice. The gaze of art - sometimes more critical and incisive and other, more poetic- collaborates with the recognition of the damage we inflict relentlessly on the earth, our house. But it also invites us to restore relationships of respect and empathy towards everything that surrounds us.”, supports the curatorial team of the Modern Museum in its text on the cycle.

Among the scheduled activities, are counted We will share, an exclusive conversation for the museum between the artist Tomás Saraceno and Maristella Svampa, as well as works by artists who work on this theme, like Matías Duville.

The contents will be presented free of charge and daily through the Museum's social networks, and they are available on its website museomoderno.org and on the website Cultura en Casa, of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Culture.