Recent years have seen no shortage of exhibitions concerned with ecology and the environment, but to date, they seem to have had little effect. What seems to be going wrong?

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Wherever art from Latin America is shown, sooner or later the term tropicalism crops up. Metropolis M asked Roos Gortzak, curator of the exhibition Tropical Abstraction at SMBA (2005), to investigate the origin and history of this originally Brazilian concept, and to take a look at what it means to the young, upcoming generation of artists from Central and South America.

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