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Home / Exhibits / Special Exhibits / Echoes in the Ice
Echoes in the Ice
September 6, 2008 – January 18, 2009
Echoes in the Ice offers a unique look at the aspirations, motivations and experiences that have shaped heroic and sometimes eccentric Arctic and Antarctic explorers, from 16th century privateer Martin Frobisher to Captain Cook, Roald Amundsen, and Admiral Byrd. It is a particularly relevant exhibition given the great interest in global warming and its effect on the Polar Regions. The history of these regions was created by the exploits of these intrepid explorers.
Inspired by film montage and web design, visual artist and filmmaker Rik van Glintenkamp melds archival imagery, original writings and reproductions of personal memorabilia into mixed-media collages of polar explorations spanning almost four centuries. The work is a dynamic visual experience that has informed and awed audiences throughout the United Kingdom, Germany, and North America.
Echoes in the Ice profiles different Polar explorers – both notable and little known. Navigators, naval officers, doctors, pirates, and even artists of various nationalities and backgrounds were among those who charted and explored the harshest and farthest reaches of the planet utilizing undependable and relatively primitive technologies. Van Glintenkamp’s collages create rich and varied portraits that chronicle successes, failures, narrow escapes, and dramatic deaths. Taken alone, each work is a window into the mind of an extraordinary individual. Together, they trace the dramatic history of polar exploration.
Rik van Glintenkamp is an accomplished New York photographer who has directed films for PBS, music videos, and whose photography has appeared regularly in Glamour, Elle, Cosmopolitan Seventeen, British Vogue, and other magazines. Echoes in the Ice is the culmination of a lifelong fascination with polar exploration that began at the age of 7.
Echoes in the Ice is part of the Houston Museum of Natural Science's celebration of International Polar Year 2007-2008, a concerted worldwide effort to advance scientific knowledge and interest in the polar regions and how they affect global climate systems.
Local funding is provided by Weatherford International Ltd.
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