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Renowned for large-scale, environmentally focused installations : ELIASSON, a Danish-Icelandic artist

Eliasson, a Danish-Icelandic artist, is renowned for large-scale, environmentally focused installations that engage communities and spark dialogue about climate change.

His work Ice Watch (2014, revisited in later years) involved placing melting Greenland ice blocks in urban settings, a collective action with local groups to highlight global warming.

In 2024-2025, his ongoing influence in the eco-art scene aligns with the market’s growing emphasis on sustainability and collaborative efforts, as seen in initiatives like the Eco-Design Art Prize and collective exhibitions.

AGNES DENES : Tree Mountain – A Living Time Capsule (1992-1996)

Agnes Denes’ Tree Mountain

– A Living Time Capsule (1992-1996) stands as a testament to eco-art’s enduring power. In Finland, she orchestrated the planting of 11,000 trees by 11,000 people across a man-made mountain, creating a living artwork meant to thrive for 400 years. This monumental project tackles reforestation, human responsibility, and time itself, blending sculpture with environmental activism. In 2025, as sustainable art surges—sales of eco-focused works have risen 30%—Tree Mountain resonates anew, inspiring a wave of artists to merge nature and creativity. Galleries now prioritize carbon-neutral exhibitions, echoing Denes’ vision of art as a catalyst for change. Her work, still growing in Finland, challenges the market to value longevity over immediacy. Dive deeper into this green revolution

ART MONTHLY UK

Art Monthly, Issue 484, March 2025

• Linder interviewed by Ellen Mara De Wachter

• Playing Games – Jamie Sutcliffe

• Total Immersion – Marcus Verhagen

• Texas • Dakar • Taipei – Chris Townsend • Gabriella Nugent • Laura Harris

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[cover: Linder, ‘Glorification de l’Élue’, 2011]

GREEN FAMILY ART FOUNDATION

The Green Family Art Foundation (“GFAF”) is a non-profit foundation based in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 2021, the GFAF’s mission is to provide a venue for, make grants to museums for the benefit of, and educate others about contemporary artists we believe communicate important ideas that are relevant and discussion worthy today and in the future. All programming is free and open to the public.

The GFAF presents three exhibitions per year featuring works by emerging and established artists that the foundation chooses to support for aesthetic, expository, and illustrative purposes.

These exhibitions will most often be group exhibitions that feature works with a common theme, although solo shows will occasionally be held. The exhibitions will generally be curated in-house, or by a guest curator who is involved in the selection of the works, as well as defining and refining the focus of the exhibition.

https://www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org/

CATTELAN'S ART THEF

Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace, UK, in 2019 in a raid lasting just five minutes, a prosecuting lawyer said earlier this week at the trial of three men charged with the theft.

Cattelan’s fully functioning 18-carat gold toilet (America, 2016) was removed from an exhibition of the Italian artist's work at the 18th-century stately home in September 2019. The toilet was insured for £4.8m.

Michael Jones, 39, is standing trial at Oxford Crown Court charged with one count of burglary, to which he has pleaded not guilty. Fred Doe, 36, and Bora Guccuk, 40, are charged with one count of conspiracy to convert or transfer criminal property, namely gold, which they deny.

A fourth man James Sheen, 39, has previously pleaded guilty to burglary. The trial is expected to last four weeks.

Prosecutor Julian Christopher KC said: “The burglary was carefully planned and swiftly carried out. The men, five of them it appears, drove through locked wooden gates into the grounds of Blenheim Palace shortly before 5am in two stolen vehicles, an Isuzu truck and a VW Golf. All in all they spent just five minutes in the building.

Clearly such an audacious raid would not have been possible without lots of preparation.”

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