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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“<i>Poetic Science: Artistic-Scientific approximations about El Yunque</i>”
</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">is opening at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Chicago, September 8<sup>th</sup>, 2016 until March 31<sup>st</sup>, 2017.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><i><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“Poetic Science”</span></u></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> was awarded the 2014 Best Collective Art Exhibit in Puerto Rico
by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). AICA is based in Paris and affiliated with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It is with great enthusiasm that we bring this exhibit to the continental US!
We are hoping it will provide an opportunity for the public to engage in a personal process of exploration through the work of the artists and scientists that have shared a new understanding of the Puerto Rican landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">POETIC SCIENCE: artistic-scientific approximations about El Yunque</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">,
is an interdisciplinary project created by the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, in alliance with the
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">USDA Forest Service - International Institute of Tropical Forestry.
<span style="color:black">The project unites art and science for the purpose of celebrating Earth, the resources that Earth provides, and the resources protected under the Wilderness Act, enacted in 1964 in order to establish the National Wilderness Preservation
System. The project commenced in March 2013, with an artistic residence in the El Yunque National Forest, organized together with the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute and the Colorado Art Ranch. Said residence was the first of a series of collaborations
that took place in six different ecosystems in the United States throughout 2013. </span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">The residence that took place in Puerto Rico resulted in an innovative project that creatively depicts the value and ecosystem
of El Yunque National Forest and the collaboration that took place between the invited artists and scientists from the Forest Service.
<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471546368138_13331">POETIC SCIENCE</b> presents, for the first time, the artistic and scientific projects born from that collaboration. The exhibition title refers to the oeuvre of the scientist, philosopher and poet Aldo Leopold,
considered in the United States to be the father of wildlife conservation. Leopold was the first to articulate, early in the 20th century, the concept of the “land ethic”, and who formulated a new way of thinking and acting towards the land that is still
greatly relevant. To this artist/scientist, the true substance of conservation lies, not on physical projects sponsored by the government, but within the mental processes of the people.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">For that reason, in addition to revising the relationship between art and science, one of the goals of this project is precisely
creating awareness about the natural world and the importance of natural resources in our lives. Art and science are both the product of curiosity and awe; of the experimentation with different perspectives in order to create new forms of seeing and grasping
the meaning of what surrounds us. We invite the public to initiate this personal process of exploration through the work of this group of artists and scientists that have proposed a new understanding of our Puerto Rican land.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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