{"id":156400,"date":"2022-03-11T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=156400"},"modified":"2022-03-11T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T01:16:17","slug":"michael-marshall-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/11\/michael-marshall-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Gaye, Monet influence art professor\u2019s climate change depiction"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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No Return to Bennecourt (in the time of climate change), 2022. (Courtesy: Fishcake)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Artist Michael Marshall<\/strong>\u2019s eclectic take on the existential threat of climate change, is gracing a contemporary design art exhibit on Oʻahu<\/span>. Marshall, an art professor at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a>, created a 12-panel painting that shows a chronological sequence of the most important events in the history of climate science.<\/p>\n

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Michael Marshall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The unfortunate reality of our advancing technologies is that a return to a pristine natural environment is highly unlikely,” Marshall said in a statement on the piece. “Degradation of the planet has been the price of unsustainable progress. The collective exploitation and damage to habitat, which also impacts our social fabric, is now code red.”<\/p>\n

A commentary on climate change<\/h2>\n

Marshall\u2019s piece on display through April 9 at the design concept store, Fishcake<\/em> in Kakaʻako<\/span>, is called “No Return to Bennecourt (in the time of climate change).” The painting stems from his reflection of Claude Monet\u2019s “Impression Sunrise” (1872), a postscript for the Industrial Age, and “On the Bank of the Seine River at Bennecourt” (1868).<\/p>\n

The piece also draws on singer Marvin Gaye\u2019s music from his 1971 “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” described as an anthem of sorrow about the state of the environment with the lyrics “…things ain\u2019t what they used to be, no no…”<\/p>\n

Marshall\u2019s fiberglass screen collage combines upcycled papers, plastics, acrylic paint and vinyl letters to create an extended concrete poem. Plastic circles spread out through the piece highlight the climate science chronological sequence. The work\u2019s format also echoes Monet\u2019s late waterlily triptychs (art work divided into three sections) and embeds an irreverent haiku in 12 parts that responds to data reported by the American Institute of Physics, which is committed to fighting the challenges of climate change.<\/p>\n

Marshall joins other local artists with works on display at Fishcake<\/em>\u2019s showroom. The current exhibit\u2019s theme is, Visual Poetry, featuring pieces that embody a movement that emerged with the advent of abstract art and avant-garde movements in the early 20th century. The exhibit is available for viewing in-person during store hours. A digital gallery of the works can be seen on Fishcake<\/em>\u2019s Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information go to UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/a>.
—by Susan Enright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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