Mona Hatoum
dal 6/10/2010 al 8/1/2011
Segnalato da
6/10/2010
Mona Hatoum
Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander
Le Grand Monde. The selection of works made during the last four years (with the exception of a picture), was performed according to the curator Chus Martinez, who says it is "An exhibition focused on the collective experience and reflection together on the critical nature of artistic production". Hatoum's work is characterized as reflecting his personal experience, exile, grief, identity, fate, and to engage the viewer in it causing these contradictory feelings of attraction and repulsion.
curated by Chus Martinez
After his stay in Villa Iris, where he led an international workshop in July, the Foundation organizes Booty autumn Le Grand Monde, a solo exhibition by Mona Hatoum (Beirut, Lebanon, 1952). The selection of works made during the last four years (with the exception of a picture), was performed according to the curator Chus Martinez, who says it is "an exhibition focused on the collective experience and reflection together on the critical nature of artistic production. "
After his stay in Santander in front of fifteen artists from several countries, Hatoum became the star of a show that will see why this creative is now a must in the art of this new century. Las dos obras que ocuparán el centro de la exposición son Hot Spot II, 2006 y Undercurrent (red), 2008. The two works that will occupy the center of the exhibition are Hot Spot II, 2006, Undercurrent (red), 2008.
The exhibition opens on Thursday 7 October and runs until Sunday 9 January, in the exhibition hall that has Botin Foundation Calle Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola 3 in the center of Santander.
The artist Mona Hatoum settled in London in 1975, when war broke out in Lebanon. His work, which includes performances and videos, installations and sculptures, has earned the nomination for the Turner Prize in 1995 and achieved the prestigious 2008 Rolf Schock Prize to decide the Royal Swedish Academy. In 2010 has won the Käthe Kollwitz Prize, a annual recognition awarded by the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Germany.
He has exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London, among others.
His work is characterized as reflecting his personal experience, exile, grief, identity, fate, and to engage the viewer in it causing these contradictory feelings of attraction and repulsion. Handles domestic objects and the human body, using various materials previously selected with great sensitivity: industrial, natural and even intangible (soap, corrugated iron, glass beads, hair, memories or images).
Image: Undercurrent (red), 2008. Hot Spot, 2006. Acero inoxidable y tubo de neón 234 x 223 x 223 cm. Collezione Rosa e Gilberto Sandretto, Milano. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin
Photo Jörg von Bruchhausen. Courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Opening: Thursday 7 October at 8p.m.
Showroom Marcelino Botin Foundation
Calle Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, 3 - Santander
Daily Schedule: Monday to Sunday from 12:00 to 14:00 and 18:30 to 21:30
Closed Christmas Eve and New Year's evening, the eve of Epiphany, and all day Christmas and New Year.
Admission free.