Modernologies. Contemporary artists researching modernity and modernism
23.09.2009 - 17.01.2010
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona / España
This project examines modernity as a promising socio-political movement which, basing itself on industrialization and technology, on the principles of human rights and democracy, on the right to self-determination, on the principle of education for all, on secularisation and Enlightenment philosophy, and above all on the underlying notion of progress and continual development, aspired to form a universal language. Hence, art no longer stood in a direct functional relationship to its former patrons, the Church and the aristocracy, but instead became committed to the ideology of autonomy.... The arts were accordingly required to portray modern life not only in adequate forms but also with analogous contents as part of this movement, in order to reflect the utopian potential of modernity but also the destructive and regressive sides of revolution and upheaval. Modernism attempted to illustrate the experiences and ramifications of modernity in artistic forms – and in undertaking this project it was almost post-modern.
[Quelle: http://www.macba.cat/]
- Antoni Abad
- Anna Artaker
- Sabine Breitwieser - Curator, installation
- Alice Creischer
- Dan Graham / Robin Hurst
- Domènec
- Katja Eydel
- Ângela Ferreira
- Andrea Fraser
- Isa Genzken
- Tom Holert
- Claudia Honecker
- Marine Hugonnier
- IRWIN
- Runa Islam
- Klub Zwei
- John Knight
- Labor k3000
- Louise Lawler
- David Maljkovic
- Dorit Margreiter
- Gordon Matta-Clark
- Gustav Metzger
- Christian Philipp Müller
- Henrik Olesen
- Paulina Olowska
- Falke Pisano
- Mathias Poledna
- Florian Pumhösl
- Martha Rosler
- Andreas Siekmann
- Armando Andrade Tudela
- Stephen Willats gemeinsam mit Christopher Williams
- Christopher Williams gemeinsam mit Stephen Willats
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- Licht und Schatten der Moderne. in: Der Standard online. 03.01.2010
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