Josephine Meckseper, ‘African Spir’ (2011)
Tag Archives: power
Paolo Chiasera
‘Madonna della Scodella’ (2012) by Paolo Chiasera.
“So the question is: what information can be gleaned from paintings about the knowledge that this power has tried to conceal?”
Stijn van Dorpe
Stijn van Dorpe, ‘Clio’ (2009)
Together with a teacher and the students of a local technical secondary school, Van Dorpe worked towards an image that translated the power and energy of both the low budget exhibition initiative and the youngsters. A black Renault Clio was turned upside down and the necessary adjustments were made to enable the car to keep on running, however without moving forward. During a performance at the opening night of the exhibition, the physical power that the car developed was shown as a dynamic spectacle – accompanied by a drummer and T-shirts printed with technical details of the car.
Jason Dodge
Jason Dodge, ‘In order of altitude’ (2008)
Five people with different professions were asked to cut a pocket from their trousers: PILOT, WINDOW WASHER, ACROBAT, BALLET DANCER, JUDGE.
Konrad Pustola
‘Views of power’ by Konrad Pustola
A series of photographs presenting the views from the office windows of the most important/most influential people in Warsaw, Krakow and Zielona Góra.
Hans Haacke
‘Germania’ (1993) Hans Haacke‘s contribution to the 1993 Venice Biennale.
“I learned that the pavillion’s present appearance was tied to Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. As part of an excursion to Venice for a meeting with his comrade Benito Mussolini, the man who had not succeeded as a painter in Vienna, paid a visit to the Biennale and the German pavilion. Hitler did not like what he saw. As a consequence, by 1937 an exhibition titled Degenerate Art opened in Munich, and plans for the re-styling of the pavilion in Venice were approved. A new national corporate identity was in the making – and so were preparations for the expansion of Germany beyond its borders and the introduction of a deadly programme of ethnic cleansing.”
(Hans Haacke in an essay for Tate Papers)
and the moral of the story is…
Seen yesterday at Witte de With‘s 24-hour film program ‘and the moral of the story is…’;
‘Wall Street’, by Oliver Stone
‘Enron, the smartest guys in the room’, by Alex Gibney
A combination that put both films in a different perspective. The documentary on the rise and fall of this American super-company was completely sickening..
More films at WdW today until midnight!
