Marek Ranis - by Julie Decker (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A major monograph tracing over three decades of Marek Ranis's art, film, and installation works on place, movement, and the human imprint on land.

Through sculpture, video, painting, and installation, Marek Ranis explores the emotional and environmental extremes that shape our world. Cieplo Zimno, meaning "Warm Cold," reflects on human fragility, displacement, and resilience amid ecological and social transformation. This publication surveys over twenty years of the artist's practice, investigating the tensions between hope and despair, belonging and exile. Often created through long-term engagement with scientists, local communities, and landscapes in the Arctic and other climate-vulnerable regions, his work lies at the junction of art, science, and climate consciousness.

Contributions by Julie Decker, Jonathon Keats, and Jae Emerling situate Ranis's poetic yet critical works within a broader meditation on change, displacement, and the delicate balance between human experience and the environments we inhabit.

About the Author

Julie Decker is the director and CEO of the Anchorage Museum. Jonathon Keats is a conceptual artist, critic, and writer based in San Francisco and Northern Italy. He is a contributing editor to Art + Auction and Forbes Life. Jae Emerling is a professor of art history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, specializing in critical theory, visual studies, and the history of images.