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3/7/2015

The Importance of Being

MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires

Gathering 40 international artists (born or living in Belgium), the exhibition will travel to 4 important museums in Latin America along one year and a half, offering a vast panorama of the contemporary art scene in Belgium, without intending to encompass thoroughly.


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Curated by: Sara Alonso Gómez

Gathering 40 international artists (born or living in Belgium), the exhibition “The Importance of Being ...” will travel to 4 important museums in Latin America along one year and a half, offering a vast panorama of the contemporary art scene in Belgium, without intending to encompass thoroughly.

Plural discourses and transversal approaches through a wide range of artistic supports make possible to highlight nowadays crucial problematics worldwide in order to think on possible connections with other latitudes while mapping similarities and differences.

The goal has been to go beyond the notion of Belgium. It is a departure point as laboratory/platform with specific but also global cultural dynamics and geopolitical approaches, in the center of Europe on the decision-making and towards the rest of the world. In this sense, subjects related to power and memory, to the binomial identity-alterity, conflicts and borders, human relations with both the technosphere and biosphere in the context of the globalization are developed on the exhibition. In this sense, the exhibition proposes 5 conceptual trends establishing a strong thread between the selected artworks.

In parallel to the show, a program of performances, workshops with local art schools, conferences and panels of discussion will take place along the exhibition.

Image: Pascale Marthine Tayou, Fresque de craies / Chalk fresco, 2015 Craies,techniques mixtes 313 x 624 cm

Opening: Sat 4 July

MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art
Av. San Juan 328 CABA
Buenos Aires Argentina

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The Importance of Being
dal 3/7/2015 al 11/9/2015

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