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Sotheby’s is banking on some top fashion talent to draw attention to its first gala and a non-profit exhibition highlighting indigenous communities and the climate crisis.
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has been selected to co-chair the 2022 Sotheby’s Impact Gala benefit at Manhattan’s Upper East Side auction house that will support Brazilian reforestation nonprofit Instituto Terra. Gabriela Hearst, an advocate for environmentalism in the fashion industry and beyond, will serve on the benefit committee. Hearst’s Nina Garcia will also be joined by actor Adrian Grenier and the actress daughter of musician Sting, Mickey Sumner. Festivities will include cocktails, a sit-down dinner, live auction and a musical performance by another benefit committee member, Latin pop star Anitta. All proceeds from the gala will go to Instituto Terra, as will all proceeds from this fall’s exhibition by artist and environmentalist Sebastiao Salgado. A third component of the fundraising initiative for the Brazilian organization will be the auction, which will offer unique experiences and works of art in various mediums.
Sotheby’s will host the first US survey of the Brazilian artist’s work since the 1990s and the auction house’s largest exhibition of curated photography. Salgado’s Magnum Opus will feature 50 photographs from 1978 to the present day. His art examines intergenerational subcultures, a dozen indigenous communities, and the global climate crisis. His work is part of the permanent collections at the Pompidou Center, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art.
This autumn’s show will refer to four of the artist’s works – “Goldmine” from 1986 chronicling 50,000 men prospecting for gold in northern Brazil; “Kuwait” from 1991 captured the environmental fallout from Saddam Hussein’s troops igniting 700 oil wells; “Genesis” was an eight-year global exploration from 2004 to 2012, and “Amazonia” (2013 to 2018) reflects Salgado’s work in the Brazilian rainforest, which required more than 50 trips for this project alone. Instituto Terra’s has planted nearly three million trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and revitalized over 2,000 water sources.
The exhibition will be open to the public at Sotheby’s galleries at its York Avenue headquarters from September 26 to October 12. Visitors will find enlarged platinum prints directly from the artist’s studio and a variety of his most popular images from over the past 40 years. Social and economic inequality, topics that Hearst and others have addressed publicly, are undercurrents in the photographer’s work. Having traveled to more than 120 countries, Salagdo is known for capturing the realities and struggles of his subjects with his images.
Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hit a six-year high last month, and about 1,540 square miles of land were cleared in the region between January and June this year. As the world’s largest rainforest, it absorbs significant amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Salgado and his wife Lelia Wanick Salgado founded Instituto Terra in 1998 to support the conservation and reforestation of Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest.
While museums, galleries and other institutions are playing up multisensory experiences, so is Sotheby’s. Salgado’s survey will include a musical composition by French composer Francois-Bernard Mache.
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