On the Margins of Art
dal 8/7/2009 al 26/9/2009
Segnalato da
Joseph Beuys
Mirtha Dermisache
Antonio Dias
Alfredo Jaar
Barbara Kruger
Jenny Holzer
Víctor Mira
Miralda
Muntadas
Maurizio Nannuci
Joan Rabascall
Ben Vautier
Edgardo Antonio Vigo
Art in Ruins
Guerrilla Girls
Provo
Guy Schraenen
8/7/2009
On the Margins of Art
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA, Barcelona
Creation and Political Engagement. Curated by Guy Schraenen, this exhibition presents a broad overview of the various ways in which artists from the second half of the 20th century have placed their creative capacity at the service of political demands. The material chosen takes in magazines, books, posters, pamphlets, postcards and other printed forms, located somewhere halfway in the wide-ranging spectrum addressed by the purest form of art to the most direct political declaration. All the material stems from the combination of various degrees of artistic skill, visual impact and political intention, ingredients to which an enormously creative use of language is often added, which draws its inspiration, consciously or unconsciously, from the achievements of visual poetry.
Curator: Guy Schraenen
On the Margins of Art is a new exhibition bringing together documents, editions and other materials from its collection. Curated by Guy Schraenen, this exhibition presents a broad overview of the various ways in which artists from the second half of the 20th century have placed their creative capacity at the service of political demands.
The material chosen takes in magazines, books, posters, pamphlets, postcards and other printed forms, located somewhere halfway in the wide-ranging spectrum addressed by the purest form of art to the most direct political declaration. All the material stems from the combination of various degrees of artistic skill, visual impact and political intention, ingredients to which an enormously creative use of language is often added, which draws its inspiration, consciously or unconsciously, from the achievements of visual poetry.
Some of these elements emerge from the reaction to a specific circumstance, as in the case of the posters produced by the anti-establishment movements related to May 1968; others, on the other hand, were spawned by more lasting organisations or movements and respond to various motives including gender demands – Guerrilla Girls, Barbara Kruger – or racial demands – Black Panther Party –, environmental concerns, class conflicts or countercultural movements such as the case of the Dutch Provo movement and the magazine of the same name published in the 1970s. Chronologically speaking, the selection of materials spans an exhibition of the surrealist tracts and documentation related to Situationist International to recent works produced around the turn of the 21st century.
The exhibition features the artists Joseph Beuys, Mirtha Dermisache, Antonio Dias, Alfredo Jaar, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Víctor Mira, Miralda, Muntadas, Maurizio Nannuci, Joan Rabascall, Ben Vautier and Edgardo Antonio Vigo, and the movements Art in Ruins, Guerrilla Girls and Provo, among others.
Image: Voter contre [le] capital ne suffit pas, Paris, 1968
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Opening july 9th 2009
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA
plaza dels Angels, 1 - Barcelona
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Admission:
Normal (all Museum access) 7,5 €
Reduced 6 €
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