For Immediate Release. Dec-28, 2003

Rocket Projects Gallery Artist David Rohn presents 'Temperate Zone".
During the December-January Art Fair Season . Miami based Artist David Rohn has installed an environmentaially4hemed Project Piece in the temporary Project Space at Rocket Projects~
The Artists idea to highlight the rather cliche theme of global warming after two consecutive years of ironic (if not ascerbic) social commentary an ~the Real Esiate and Contemporary Art Industries, represents a response on his part to several recent tendencies .

I -Although international Goricems for security have eclipsed concerns to make changes in the way we exploit our planet's resources, the future can t si'm.,ner on a back burner simply because, it s not visibly boiling over at the present moment: think of it more as an out of control vehicle careening down the freeway.
2. The debates about various National and International Policies are so shrill and polemical now, that the artist wanted to focus on the cenral issue affecting rich and poor, advanced and "advancing" societies alike. This in the event that the international audience here for the art fairs might see that the wara~ing of our planet unites us all . over all the current noise about what divides us.
3. The Artist observes that low-lying, already-warm places like South Florida will be among the most immediately affected by the warmer temperatures and the rising sea level. In spite of this we obliviousily clitig to our outdated ideas about go-go growth : endless strip mal'ts and hi rise condos, all to be serviced by s. suburban scale autommobile Culture
The installation is meant to highlight the way individual perceptioms and behavior relate to the natural environment, For example we re ok with whatever happens to any quantity of our garbage, as long as it s simply taken away out of our sight. We re ok with the warm air generated by air conditioning since the part of the environment important to us , our immediate interior environment, is cooled. And we re ok with the removal of the trees as long as the tell tale and ugly stumps are removed -The 600-odd drawings of tree stumps that paper the walls of the installation space are also intended to individualize (literally) each tree, 'their removal as an individual event of destruction Rohn believes we must begin to individualize agr behavior,whether it s about cutfing down a tree, throwing away a plastic object, (or buying it in the first place), living in a place where we have to use an automobile every time we walk out the front door, or cranking up the AIC.beyond where we need it for simple comfort, but to feel the novel luxury of a chill in the tropics.
Temperate Zone will be on view at Rocket Projects thru january 2004,