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Iván Navarro - Welcome (Hardcover)
Octavio Zaya; Iván Navarro, José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Alfredo Jaar, Pablo León de la Barra León de la Barra
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R963
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The new Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and Le*n, opened in
Spain in 2005 with an exhibition of Alfredo Jaar's Emergency, a
dark pool from which a fiberglass model of the African continent is
constantly, slowly rising and resubmerging. This revised and
expanded black book of essays--whose back cover leads to black
endpapers and black title pages--extends Jaar's piece with
reflections on the continent from such brilliant African writers as
Ama Ata Aidoo (of Ghana, via Stanford University's creative writing
program), Buchi Emecheta (of Nigeria and London), Nawal el Saadawi
(Egypt's onetime Director of Public Health, the only woman ever to
achieve such a position), and Nuruddin Farah (a novelist exiled
from Somalia).
Alfredo Jaar's immersive site-specific installation in the Chilean
pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Venezia Venezia is a call to
examine how today's culture, composed of increasingly complex
global networks, can be adequately represented on a world
stage.This publication features essays by 18 prominent,
international authors from different fields of work and thought,
including political and philosophical thinkers, critics, theorists,
art historians and curators. Their contributions consider Venezia
Venezia in its critical context, as well d recent global
developments and the volatile conditions of contemporary art
practice.
A re-encounter with Chilean audiences after an absence of
twenty-five years, this is an anthology of works better known to
the rest of the world than to Jaar's native country. It is a frank,
demanding dialogue with a new public and a new generation of
intellectuals. Jaar's work evolves from project to project, as he
continually shapes and renews his poetic thinking on such themes
as: the contemporary status of images, the role of artists and
intellectuals in society, and an ethical imperative expressed in an
aesthetics of resistance.
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