The Shape of the World/The End of the World.PADIGLIONE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA Can art give "form" to the world, can it anticipate, even shape the future? Or is art today left to merely register the movement of the fragmented ego--to describe culture's incipient demise? At a moment in which the ideological crises of recent decades have practically given way to the all-purpose utopianism u·to·pi·an·ism also U·to·pi·an·ism n. The ideals or principles of a utopian; idealistic and impractical social theory. utopianism 1. of the global, critic and curator Marco Meneguzzo turns for answers to the art of the present. The show brings together more than fifty works by thirty artists, including Matthew Barney, Alighiero e Boetti, Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生 or 草間弥生, born March 29 ,1929) is a Japanese artist. Her paintings, collages, sculptures, and environmental works all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation. , Mona Hatoum Mona Hatoum (born 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a performance artist of Palestinian origin who moved to London in 1975. Trained at both the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Art between the years 1975 and 1981. , Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Helio Oiticica, and Jeff Wall Jeff Wall (born Vancouver September 29 1946) is a Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Overview . July 13-Oct. 3. |
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