Interior design
Art of a Changing World
Friday, 11 December 2009
Posted by Niki Fulton at 11:45 AM in Interior design
As the world focuses its attention on the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, London is hosting an exhibition, Earth: Art of a Changing World at the Royal Academy of Arts.
The exhibition is designed to encourage discussion about the fragility of Earth and the effect climate change has on our daily lives.
Pictured above is Mona Hatoum's "Hot Spot", a cage like globe with countries marked out in an urgent, luminescent light leaving the room bathed in a hot and dangerous looking glow indicating a situation of imminent combustion.
So too are paint manufacturers looking at the atmosphere. They are improving their formulations to avoid where possible the use of oil based paints. Water borne paints are preferable as they have very low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOC) - compounds that can vaporize and enter the atmosphere.
The Finns have studied indoor air quality at great length, partly because they have long cold dark winters and therefore spend most of the time indoors. They have a developed a classification to measure indoor air quality and I am glad to report that the whole of the Liquid Imagination range is M1 classified, a classification reserved for products emitting extremely low levels of compounds into the atmosphere. The Liquid Imagination range is also fully water borne.
So at last it seems that the quality of the atmosphere really is under the microscope as politicians, scientists, artists and even some manufacturers strive to improve the atmosphere around our fragile Earth.
Thank you to GSK Contemporary:Earth at the Royal Academy of Arts for the use of the image.
Sculpture by Mona Hatoum, "Hot Spot" 2006. Mixed media. Stainless steel and neon tube. 234 x 223cm. David Roberts Collection, London.
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