We are in the century of the social and environmental crisis and my artwork is affected by this.
We need, new symbolic images to stand up for, training for the perception to envision alternative futures.
My research focuses on the complex relationship between the human and the non-human.
“Human are nature becoming conscious of itself ” (Elisée Reclus)
Since 2000 I have been researching, driven by curiosity, with a multidisciplinary approach, to find connections between: art and science, symbolism and political ecology, anatomy and urbanism, bodies and cities, climate and social justice, emotion and action, perception and engagement. The aim is to convey the environmental and social urgency without losing complexity. In the era of extractivism and neo-colonialism, I believe that a conceptual transition from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric view is needed. The aim of my research is to create new visions, symbols and formulas, to make the invisible visible, showing the hidden natural process and transformations as a contemporary alchemist learining from the past. My artworks are tributes to the ecosystems. The choice of subjects in the artworks is poetic and political, I am advocating for the more than human, the world without us.
Methods:
There isn’t just a method (I don’t follow a specific scheme for my work), but the artwork production process is mostly site-specific and influenced by the contest, the people that I meet and the environment. The artwork can be related to searching materials and elements, observing transformations and simplifying ideas in shapes. Sometimes I’m looking for a delicate balance, others times for a heavy impact. A common operation in my work is to transpose elements from the landscape to the built environment, changing the point of view, the perception and the conventional meaning of the objects, with the clear statement: “Ecosystem as Art”.
Climate Art Project is my main artist practice.
Reference:
Andrea Conte (Andreco), Art as Tribute to the Non-Human. Exercises and Open Questions for Ecocentric Expressions – Art For Radical Ecology Manifesto. Bruno Edition, 2024
Andrea Conte (Andreco), Arte e Ecologia Politica – CONTRONATURE – Teorie e Pratiche di Ecologia Politica – Deriveapprodi, 2022
Conte et all, Aula Verde ( Tree Room) as a link between art and science to raise public awareness of nature‐based solutions – Scientific Report – Nature Journal, 2024
Andreco, Postfazione – Natura e Società. Scritti di Geografia Sovversiva – Elisèe Reclus – Eleuthera, 2023
– Conte, Passatore. “Nature Based Solution per la bonifica in ambito urbano: un esempio di percorso interdisciplinare condiviso tra arte e scienza” – “Nature Based Solution for remediation in urban environment: an example of interdisciplinary path between art and science” 2021.
– Conte, Passatore, Brunetti, Allevato, Stazi, Antenozio, Cardarelli.“Nature Based Solutions on the river environment: an example of cross-disciplinary sustainable management, with local community active participation and visual art as science transfer tool” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2020.1822306 .2020
– Sky TG 24: Giornata della Terra, sulle rive dell’Aniene il land art project ‘Aula Verde’. 2020
– Il Manifesto – Arte e clima, l’Aula Verde di Andreco. 2021
– Flash Art – Climate Art Project presenta Flumen. Climate Actions per i parchi e i fiumi a Roma, 2020
– Conte, Andreco. Futuro Osmotico, PWR editions, ISBN 9788894468007 . 2019
– Il Manifesto -«La mia arte ispirata dal clima». 2019
– Exibart – Andreco, The Plants Are Revolutionaries Museo Di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, 2018
– Exibart – La “green art” di Andreco. 2018
– Huffington Post – A Venezia l’arte incontra la scienza e fa riflettere la società sui cambiamenti climatici L’artista romano Andreco inaugura la sua opera “CLIMATE 04 Sea Level Rise”, un monito a una città che potrebbe essere sommersa dalle acque. 2017
– Designboom – Andreco catalyzes the climate change discussion through public artwork in Venice, 2017
