Thomas Hirschhorn
dal 22/9/2003 al 16/11/2003
Segnalato da
22/9/2003
Thomas Hirschhorn
Contemporary Art Centre, Malaga
United Nations Miniature. United Nations Miniature is the title of a large-scale exhibition which Thomas Hirschhorn will be presenting at the CAC Malaga. In it, the Swiss artist conveys the viewer to a battle field to reveal the horrors and barbarity that result from war. In a totally committed spirit, Hirschhorn denounces inequalities and injustice while at the same time inviting us to reflect on the reality of current politics.
United Nations Miniature
United Nations Miniature is the title of a large-scale exhibition which Thomas
Hirschhorn (born Bern, 1957) will be presenting at the CAC Malaga from 20
September. In it, the Swiss artist conveys the viewer to a battle field to
reveal the horrors and barbarity that result from war. In a totally committed
spirit, Hirschhorn denounces inequalities and injustice while at the same time
inviting us to reflect on the reality of current politics. United Nations
Miniature represents a devastated, chaotic space, reflecting the full dimension
of the tragedy through the appropriate, even inevitable, use of waste materials.
Thomas Hirschhorn studied graphic design in Zurich, a profession which he
abandoned when he decided that it was too closely linked to commercial and
private interests. From then on he has devoted himself to art, working in
different media ' sculpture, video and installation ' considering art to be
an inseparable part of social and political critique.
Through the use of everyday elements and recycled materials, Thomas Hirschhorn
denounces the excessive consumerism of contemporary society. In the same way,
his work is characterised by an abundance of images and text, sometimes
resulting in a overloading of data which imitates the process of confrontation
of the artist with the excess of information in our daily lives.
Thomas Hirschhorn lives and works in Paris. His installations and other works
have been exhibited in centres and institutions such as the Centre Georges
Pompidou in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Renaissance Society in
Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. In 1999 he took part in
the Venice Biennial.
The CAC Malaga has a work by the artist in its permanent collection entitled Art
Center 6 (Blow down, 2001). Currently on show to the public, it recreates the
different rooms of a house. The work features all the characteristics that
define Hirschhorn's art: precarious and ephemeral construction in which
recycled materials predominate, used by the artist to create small cosmologies
and visual universes.
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