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| The wealth of art diffused throughout Italian cities is evident to anyone who has ever visited this country, nomatter how briefly. Not only "private" art, locked up in palaces and collections, but for the most part exhibited, made specifically for the public. And one has the feeling that, here, art was for a very long time the medium of communication between the citizen and society (often it would be better to say "power"), that it was invented almost exclusively for this purpose, and that it has been diffused thanks to its ability to pull ideals, religion, and emotions together.(continue) | ||
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| Anthonies Muntadas born to Barcellona in the 1942, lives in New York from the 1971. He has participated to numerous shows like Document to Kassel, the biennal exhibitions from Venice, St. Paolo, Lione and has exposed to the Guggenheim and to the MoMA from New York and to the Center Reina Sofia from Madrid. We, between his recent jobs, remember the construction of a web site, The File Room, dedicated to the problems of the artistic and cultural censorship and On Translation, a plan that explores problematic of transcript, interpretation and translation and that has had an ulterior development in the last edition of Documenta: The Internet Project. |
| Born in Germany in the 1936 is, from the 1965, resident to New York where teach to the Cooper Union School of Art. Between most known and uncomfortable contemporary artists, Haacke has braid his artistic job with a constant political appointment. Your personnels are been turns to the MOMA from Oxford, to the Tate Gallery of London, to the New Museum of New York, to the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam and to the Centre Pompidou of Paris. Unforgettable the installation presented to the German Tent of the biennal exhibition from Venice of the 1993 that has been worth him the Leone D'oro. |
| Group Material is a newyork collective artistic of which they have made in different time Tim Rollins, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, departs Doug Ashford and, naturally, Julie Ault, component of the group from the 1979 (year of the foundation) to today. One of the objective principal of Group Material is the [decostruzione] of the typical museum exposure to an art that privileges the experience, the information and the share is of other artists that of the common people. With his action the group has put in crisis the romantic concept of artist. |
| Born to Santiago (Chile) in the 1956, Alfred Jaar works to New York from the 1982. Is an artist that, using most varied average, has underlined the problem of the distance between the Third World and the Countries industrialized of the West. Numerous are his shares in the international exposures (like Documenta, the biennal exhibition from Venice, etc.) as like his personnels in any of the principal international museums, but often he has left the "wall of the galleries and of the museums" for work in the urban spaces, using, for example, the advertising placards. |
| Independent and historical administrator of the art Mary Jane Jacob has stayed administrator of the MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Art) from Chicago and of the MOCA of Los Angeles. Between the numerous his plans concern the art in the "urban spaces" remembers the ideation and the care of Places with a Past: New site specific Art in Charleston and Cultures in Action: New Public Art in Chicago. Recently has organized the Festival of the Conversations art at the Castle in Atlanta, in the circle of the cultural tied up demonstrations to the Olimpic games of the 1996. |
| Marc Augé has studied for years the populations of the Alto Volta and of the Coast of Ivory. Today turns his look of anthropologist to the problems of the complex societies. Between his work, any of which translated in Italian, Symbol function history (Liguori, 1983), The sense of the evil (Il Saggiatore, 1986), A etnologo in the metró (Eléuthera, 1992), Nonluoghi (Eléuthera, 1993), and the recent Villas and estates (Eléuthera, 1994). The new concept of not-place, today to the center of the cultural and artistic debate, will be object of his relationship. |
Born in New York in the 1940, he has asserted in the years Seventy like one
of the principal exponents of the Body Art. In the years Eighty have realized
numerous plans in public spaces up to plan of the real creative accomodation
of the urban space. Is one of the artists that they mostly have
investigated on the relationship between the self and the society, not
flee never from the idea of the art like message. Between the principal shows
we remember the shows to the MOMA and to the Whitney Museum from New York
and the exposure to the Pecci Museum of Prato in the 1992.
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