Damaged Nature: Justin Richburg Responds to Gustav Metzger

Artist Justin Richburg has created this short film in response to Gustav Metzger’s ‘Damaged Nature’ manifesto, the first time an animation has been commissioned in response to Metzger’s writings.
In Metzger’s 1992 essay ‘Nature Demised’ he proclaims an ‘urgent need to redefine notions of nature and the environment,’ because ‘environment’ is a term that ‘has been hijacked by the forces that are manipulating the world’ and it should be renamed ‘Damaged Nature.’
Justin Richburg is a Philadelphia-based artist who has established his own brand with his innovative animation that set the benchmark to a whole new world of creative opportunities. With an Instagram following of 124K and millions of views on his youtube channel ‘The Collective Animation’ Seasoned yet humble. Lowkey, yet eccentric. Winning yet forever hungry. These are the many traits of Justin Richburg, the ever-so controversial and distinguishably artistic illustrator hailing from ‘Norf Philly.’
Gustav Metzger (1926 - 2017) was born in Nuremberg to Polish-Jewish parents and fled Nazi Germany to England via the ‘Kindertransport’ when he was 13. When he began his art studies in 1945, he entered a world inspired by scientific experimentation, just as the Atomic Age-in all its paradoxes-dawned. Over seventy years, through his writing, calls to action and art, Metzger wrestled with the contradictions of his time by championing how both ‘auto-destruction’ and ‘auto-creation’ in science, ecology, politics and art were equally important tactics to address the state of humanity.
‘Gustav Metzger. And Then Came the Environment’ is on view at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles from 13 September 2024 through 5 January 2025.
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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca, Paris and Basel.
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