The exhibition includes
artists from France,
Denmark, UK, US,
Canada, Sweden and
Japan.
An additional
component of the
exhibition will take
place at the Natural
History Museum.
This international group exhibition
explores the ways in which young
artists, many of whom will be showing
their work in the UK for the first time,
are reinterpreting the classical subject
of nature in art. For these artists, who
live primarily in cities, the most
mundane aspects of the natural world
have become curious and exotic. Using
as their materials either the 'real thing'
or re-creating natural experiences as
ordinary as a rain shower, they evoke
in the beholder sensations of wonder
and fascination. This innovative
exhibition will transform the
Serpentine Gallery into a greenhouse
gone awry in which visitors will never
be fully certain whether what they see
is live or artificial.
The Serpentine Gallery, situated in the heart of
Kensington Gardens in a 1934 tea pavilion, was
founded in 1970 by the Arts Council of England.
Today the Gallery attracts over 400,000 visitors
a year and is one of London's most loved
exhibition sites for modern and contemporary art.
The Serpentine is open daily
from 10am to 6pm and is free of charge.