The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection
The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany
from 17/09/2011 to 05/02/2012
Art work from Democratic Republic of Congo artist Chéri Samba is featured in "The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989".
“...By means of artistic approaches and documentary materials, the exhibition "The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989" examines the way in which globalization, both with its pervasive mechanisms of the market and its utopias of networking and generosity, impacts upon the various spheres of artistic production and reception. The critical analysis of the key institutions and dispositives of the art world seeks to illustrate the manner in which globalization has both shaped and itself become a theme in artistic production that intentionally creates and reviews its own conditions and parameters." (...) read more...
“...By means of artistic approaches and documentary materials, the exhibition "The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989" examines the way in which globalization, both with its pervasive mechanisms of the market and its utopias of networking and generosity, impacts upon the various spheres of artistic production and reception. The critical analysis of the key institutions and dispositives of the art world seeks to illustrate the manner in which globalization has both shaped and itself become a theme in artistic production that intentionally creates and reviews its own conditions and parameters." (...) read more...
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