Tomorrow’s Tigers 2022 is a serious fundraising challenge organised by WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature). Comprising a promoting exhibition, it should characteristic specifically commissioned, limited-edition artwork rugs by 12 main worldwide artists. Highlights embrace a limited-edition piece designed by Peter Doig and a one-off artwork rug by Ai Weiwei.
Tomorrow’s Tigers 2022 marks a brand new section within the critically acclaimed challenge, conceived and curated by Artwise Curators, in collaboration with specialist rug model Christopher Farr.
Ai Weiwei along with his rug The Tyger, commissioned for Tomorrow’s Tigers and WWF UK. Curated by Artwise, fabricated by Christopher Farr
(Picture credit score: Thierry Bal, courtesy Ai Weiwei)
Featured artists behind the colorful rugs are Ai Weiwei, Francesco Clemente, Peter Doig, Bernard Frize, Gary Hume, Reena Saini Kallat, Anish Kapoor, Maya Lin, Harland Miller, Raqib Shaw, Kiki Smith and Rose Wylie.
The initiative seeks to spotlight the continuing and demanding risk to wild tiger populations and WWF’s efforts to treatment the decline. Coinciding with the Lunar 12 months of the Tiger and the worldwide TX2 pledge to double tiger numbers by the top of 2022, an exhibition of the artwork rugs can be held at Sotheby’s, London from 24-29 November 2022. The rugs can be in the stores by means of the web site of Artwork for Your World, an organisation working with the artwork world to assist deal with the local weather and nature disaster.
Excluding the distinctive design by Ai Weiwei, the commissioned rugs are every made in a restricted version run of as much as ten and can be on sale at costs starting from £10,000 to £150,000.
Kiki Smith, Pounce. Commissioned for Tomorrow’s Tigers and WWF UK. Curated by Artwise, fabricated by Christopher Farr
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‘I needed to have a rug made that might reply and confer with the magical Tibetan tiger rugs that have been partly the inspiration for this challenge. It’s terrifying how few tigers are left within the wild and the considered them someday solely present in captivity is actually tragic,’ says Peter Doig of his new rug, Tiger Battle. ‘My imagery takes its tigers from an present rug however provides a story that could possibly be a few struggle for survival or being made to carry out in some grotesque circus with an abstracted human crowd trying on. The outstanding craftsmanship and ability within the making of those rugs and the good interpretation of my portray earlier than this makes for a extremely collaborative endeavor.’
Tomorrow’s Tigers, Curated by Artwise for WWF, 24.11.22 – 29.11.22 At Sotheby’s London 34-35 New Bond Road London W1A 2AA UK. artforyourworld.wwf.org.uk
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Bernard Frize, What the Tiger Says. Commissioned for Tomorrow’s Tigers and WWF UK. Curated by Artwise, fabricated by Christopher Farr
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Maya Lin, With the Weight of Every Step. Commissioned for Tomorrow’s Tigers and WWF UK. Curated by Artwise, fabricated by Christopher Farr
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