Wild Coffee
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As part of the artist’s social practice, the “Native Flags” project, initiated by Xavier Cortada in 2008, serves to have its participants make a literal declaration of war against climate change, as well as making a symbolic gesture of reclamation by nature.
Seen throughout Cortada’s work is a focus on developing signifiers within communities. In “Native Flags”, the green project flag that accompanies the performance behaves as a statement of reclamation, a point of departure for participants to initiate new action. In turn, the environmental impact of “Native Flags” is amphibolic, as it not only terraforms the urban landscape, an action against climate change through the initiation of a natural tree canopy, it also spurs conversation throughout various communities for other actions to be taken. All 12 of Cortada’s “Native Flags” prints are in the collection of the University of Miami’s Miami Herbert Business School.
Xavier Cortada, “Native Flags: Wild Coffee,” archival ink on paper (signed, numbered, limited-edition print, edition of 5), 8” x 12”, 2008.
Wild Tamarind
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As part of the artist’s social practice, the “Native Flags” project, initiated by Xavier Cortada in 2008, serves to have its participants make a literal declaration of war against climate change, as well as making a symbolic gesture of reclamation by nature.
Seen throughout Cortada’s work is a focus on developing signifiers within communities. In “Native Flags”, the green project flag that accompanies the performance behaves as a statement of reclamation, a point of departure for participants to initiate new action. In turn, the environmental impact of “Native Flags” is amphibolic, as it not only terraforms the urban landscape, an action against climate change through the initiation of a natural tree canopy, it also spurs conversation throughout various communities for other actions to be taken. All 12 of Cortada’s “Native Flags” prints are in the collection of the University of Miami’s Miami Herbert Business School.
Xavier Cortada, “Native Flags: Wild Tamarind,” archival ink on paper (signed, numbered, limited-edition print, edition of 5), 8” x 12”, 2008.
Wood Stork – 80.15W
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Titled for Biscayne Bay’s longitude, “80.15 W” features the 17 threatened and endangered species that call Biscayne National Park (Miami, FL) home. In 2010, artist Xavier Cortada created the drawings on carbon paper, an apt metaphor for the impact (or “carbon footprint”) that humans have had on these animals. The works are in the permanent collection of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, each limited-edition print (editions of 5) signed and numbered by the artist to establish its value and authenticity.
Xavier Cortada, “Wood Stork,” archival ink on paper (signed, numbered, limited edition print, edition of 5), 15″ x 12″, 2015.
Wood Storks – Endangered Animals
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As part of his public art installation at Ft. Drum plaza along the Florida Turnpike, Cortada’s “Endangered Animals” series allowed the artist an opportunity to showcase a variety of endangered animals that have been affected by habitat loss due to overdevelopment.
Each of these signed, numbered, limited-edition prints (edition of 5) showcases a specific endangered animal that has been affected by habitat loss due to human impacts. The artist, Xavier Cortada, hopes through the elasticity and potential of art that we may find a better way to coexist with nature before these animals become extinct.
Prints from the “Endangered Animals” series are in the collection of Florida’s Department of State in Tallahassee, as well as having been exhibited at the Orlando Science Center and The Frank (Frank C. Otis Gallery and Exhibit Hall) as part of the artist’s overarching “Florida is…Nature” exhibition. They also were included in the artist’s solo exhibition at Creative Pinellas.
Xavier Cortada, “Florida is… Endangered Animals: Wood Storks,” archival ink on paper (signed, numbered, limited-edition print, edition of 5), 18″ x 12″, 2015.
‘Puzzled Landscape 1’ in Wildflowers
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The artist print of “Wildflowers”, a 2015 public art installation developed for West Palm Beach plaza along the Florida Turnpike presents itself unconventionally, the print realizing the conceptual undertaking of the main project it resembles. This limited-edition print exists as a vibrant addition to the artist’s oeuvre that appears both beautiful and thought-provoking.
Prints of “Wildflowers” from the artist’s “Florida is…Nature” series are in the collection of Florida’s Department of State in Tallahassee, the work also having been exhibited at the Orlando Science Center, The Frank (Frank C. Otis Gallery and Exhibit Hall), and Creative Pinellas.
Xavier Cortada, “Puzzled Landscape 1,” archival ink on paper (signed, numbered, limited edition print, edition of 10), 16″ x 21″, 2015.
