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Exceptional event, June 14, 2025 at 7pm, organized by L’association des Amis de Frans Krajcberg, COAL, les Nuits des forêts and the Cité du développement durable.
Image credits: Frans KRAJCBERG Queimadas (incendies), circ 1980, Mato Grosso (Brésil)
Published on 19 May 2025
The Cry for the Planet
Tribute to Frans Krajcberg and Sebastião Salgado.
Saturday, June 14, 7 p.m.
at the Cité du Développement Durable Garden d’Agronomie Tropicale de Paris
This event is dedicated to the memory of Sebastião Salgado, who should have been with us during this mobilization for the Amazon rainforest. Throughout his life, this ardent protector of nature worked, alongside his wife Lélia Wanick, to share the beauty of the world, its wounds and its profound humanity. His work will continue to enlighten, move and guide us.
Two men, two generations, one fight and one voice. Sebastião Salgado and Frans Krajcberg are advocates of lush, self-sufficient nature, whose beauty has been tarnished by the disasters of human intervention. What they have in common is an irrepressible urgency to give back to the planet what is rightfully itss. In the ashes of the fires, hope lives on: their works open our eyes and urge us to become agents of change.
Frans Krajcberg (1921-2017), originally from Poland, “born for the second time in Brazil”, worked all his life to give shape to his “cry” in the face of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. In 2005, to mark the Year of Brazil in France, Frans Krajcberg presented Dialogues avec la Nature (curated by Sylvie Depondt), a major retrospective exhibition in the Jardins de Bagatelle, on the violence that man inflicts on nature, including deforestation. “I’m not looking to make sculpture, I’m looking for forms for my cry,” said this “revolted man” about his work. A commitment that gave rise to a manifesto signed by a group of politicians, scientists and artists united in defense of the environment: Le Cri pour la Planète.
Twenty years on, the state of the planet and of the Amazon rainforest leaves us no choice but to mobilize to save it. The Friends of Frans Krajcberg, COAL, Nuits des Forêts and the Cité du Développement Durable are taking up his message and are inviting all artists, scientists, indigenous activists, political figures, guarantors of ecological, climatic and cultural balance and the general public to the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale on Saturday June 14 at 7pm, to make this Cry for the Planet resound once again.
On this occasion, a new manifesto will be signed and taken to COP30 in Belém in November, to defend the planet and the Amazon rainforest.
Event organized as part of the Brazil France 2025 Season for the COEXISTENCIA “temps fort” program
Portrait of Frans Krajcberg and Sebastião Salgado ©Juan Esteves and ©Renato Amoroso, 2019
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