On the occasion of the 2010 G20 Seoul Summit, Greening Green 2010, is an exhibition presenting thirteen teams of artists who interpret art in action to create a sustainable, balanced environment. This is now a globally pressing issue in the context of culture and art. For the exhibition, artists and designers from eight countries on four continents including Korea have gathered in Seoul to collect and classify surroundings through their artistic eyes and imaginations, to realize differences by practicing multilateral actions, and to seek communication and expansion of meanings on the environment by posing insightful questions. For this end, the participating artists will experiment to maximize their individual capabilities through collaboration with each other and the audience, not to mention using diverse media and technologies.  Concurrently with the exhibition, a variety of artistic action strategies to maximize contact and communication with the audience, such as a performance, a workshop, and a talk with artists, will be held.

This exhibition should make us look back on our surroundings and reconsider them from a fresh perspective.  And the exhibition intends to find the meaning of sustainable environment in the formality of an exhibition by reducing wastes as much as possible and finding effective measures for recycling during the artwork production process or during its preparation process.  Greening Green 2010 is an exhibition in action that will produce energy for growth by producing meanings of present forms of progress of “Greening” and allowing us to experience it all together, all sharing experience and thinking together, and at the same time thinking differently from each other and communicating with each other.

Environmental Archiving
Gallery 1 shows artistic views of participating artists on humans and the city/ culture/society/ ecological environment, and diverse materials collected through the eyes of the artists. Exhibits articulated by traces of memories and arts allow the viewers living in modern society to experience the other side of their environment and provide them opportunities to look at everyday living.  The Trash series by Vivan Sundaram (born 1943, India) and spectacular trash heap by YaoLu (born 1967, China) are practically visualized through images and traditional landscape painting technique, respectively, revealing the urban environment and situation in which we are living today. James Balog (U.S.A.), a world renowned documentary photographer, brings out the issue of global warming.  He collected and recorded the issue in documentary form, thus doubling the authenticity through shocking images.  Ahmad Nadalian (born 1963, Iran), an environment artist and critic from Iran, made the world aware of the preciousness of water as he is travelling the world by bicycle, recording scenes in photos and videos. Florencia Levy (born 1979, Argentina) collected plants in Seoul for one month and communicates with the audience about these plants through drawings.

Artistic Imagination
Artists of seven teams presented at Gallery 2 attempt to cross culture, society and economics of contemporary times with a sarcastic way of thinking and imagination, and they attempt to look at them again from a new perspective.  The rhetoric of the artworks created with various media and plural communication methods suggest freshness and alternatives, which are brought by differences.  The artists gathered in this space include Roman Kirschner (Germany), Letha Wilson (U.S.A.), Arakawa Ei + Mukai Mari (Japan), Jaye Rhee (Korea), and FF Seoul (Korea), and they deal with the subject of excessive communication.  They pose questions about the future on the new media waste with which modern society is confronting through their exhibits. Also presented are documentary video by Juyeon Kim (Korea), who is practicing art in action, and Niall Towl & Jason Atta (U.K.) and Hye Won Kim (Korea), who are suggesting different practice methods through their animation works. 

Dissemination
Artists of thirteen teams gathered together through ‘Greening Green’ will meet the audience through a hands-on workshop, talk with artists, and performances. By sharing and practicing daily life routines which are different from each other through languages of diverse experience, they spread the word about global issues.  A lecture by Professor Hoseob Yoon (Korea), a green designer, suggests a useful and achievable methodology for co-existence.

Artist
Vivan Sundaram (India), Florencia Levy (Argentina), Yao Lu (China), Ahmad Nadalian (Iran), James Balog (U.S.A.), Roman Kirschner (Germany), Letha Wilson (U.S.A.), Juyeon Kim (Korea), Arakawa Ei + Mukai Mari (Japan), Jaye Rhee (Korea), Niall Towl & Jason Attar (U.K.), Hye Won Kim (Korea), FF Seoul (Korea)

Hosted by Arts Council Korea, Korea Foundation
Supported by G20 Seoul Summit, Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism