The Importance of Being
dal 3/7/2015 al 11/9/2015
Segnalato da
Marcel Broodthaers
Chantal Akerman
Francis Alys
Charif Benhelima
Guillaume Bijl
Michael Borremans
Dirk Braeckman
Jacques Charlier
David Claerbout
Leo Copers
Patrick Corillon
Cel Crabeels
Berlinde De Bruyckere
Jan De Cock
Peter de Cupere
Carl De Keyzer
Raoul De Keyser
Edith Dekyndt
Wim Delvoye
Fred Eerdekens
Jan Fabre
Michel Francois
Kendell Geers
Johan Grimonprez
Ann Veronica Janssens
Marie-Jo Lafontaine
Jacques Lizene
Kris Martin
Hans Op de Beeck
Walter Swennen
Pascale Marthine Tayou
Ana Torfs
Joelle Tuerlinckx
Philippe Vandenberg
Koen van den Broek
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Koen Vanmechelen
Lieve Van Stappen
Bruno Vekemans
Angel Vergara Santiago
Sara Alonso Gomez
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.
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