“Political/ Minimal” exhibition at the Art Museum in Lodz, Poland, 18 June – 23 August, 2009

(2009 06 16 23:37)

The exhibition “Political/Minimal” presented at the Art Museum in Lodz consists of 30 works which are formally minimalist and yet also have political content. Contemporary art uses very often this contradiction between abstraction and concrete references to reality. Sculptures included in this exhibition make reference to classical minimalist forms: they have shapes in two dimensions such as the circle, the square, and the triangle, and bodies such as the sphere, the cube, and the pyramid. In contrast to self-referential minimalism the sculptures tell stories and ask political questions about what it is to be human, refer to the body, and society.

 

The artists presenting their works at the exhibition are: Adel Abdessemed, Francis Alys, Monica Bonvicini, Tom Burr, Annabel Daou, Edith Dekyndt, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hans Haacke, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Derek Jarman, Terence Koh, Kitty Kraus, Klara Liden, Kris Martin, Corey McCorkle, Helen Mirra, Muchen i Shao Yinong, Sarah Ortmeyer, Seth Price, Gregor Schneider, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, Taryn Simon, Rosemarie Trockel, Aaron Young.
The exhibition is prepared by Kunst Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and curated by Klaus Biesenbach.

 

Read more on this site www.msl.org.pl/en/

 

 

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