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Controversia religiosa na
Feira de Arte Moderna
ARCO Madrid
The ARCO modern art fair in Madrid has its
first controversy of the year with a work
‘Stairway to Heaven’ from the young Madrid
artist, Eugenio Merino.
It shows an Arab on his knees praying, with a
Catholic priest on the Arab’s back also knelt in
prayer and with a Rabbi in turn standing on the
shoulders of the priest.
The work, made from resin, silicone and
human hair, has already sold to a Belgian
collector for 50,000 €
The Israeli Embassy has complained about the
work ‘Stairway to Heaven’
They have commented that the freedom of
expression or freedom of art serves on
occasions only as a simple mask for prejudice.
‘An offensive message does not stop the hurt
because it pretends to be an artistic work’.
The artist has said he did not want to provoke
with the work, saying that his idea was ‘the co-
existence of the three religions, each making a
common effort to reach God on the literal
plain’.
Chiharu Shiota
born 1972 in Osaka, Japan lives
and works in Berlin
Esta série foi aberta com DEAD END que lidava com a ameaça
que a violência representa para o nosso tecido social.
Os países estão divididos entre si por fronteiras ... Fronteiras são linhas. Milhões
de homens estão mortos por causa dessas linhas. Milhares de homens estão
mortos porque não conseguem atravessá-las ...
Han Yang, War Games, China, 2004 , assemblage 200x200 cm
A segunda exposição da série IGUAL E MENOS
IGUAL foi inaugurada em Setembro de 2006.
Heidi Stern , The Man-hole, Germany, 2004, Clay, oil color and metal, 14x20 cm.
In the summer of 2007 BARE LIFE opened at the
Museum, the third exhibition and last in the series
dealing with human rights. The exhibition, which
closed in June 2008, dealt with the disintegrating
line between abnormal and normal situations. The
exhibit pointed to the dangerous place where a
temporary emergency situation can be turned into
a legitimized status quo accepted by the silent
majority, a situation that can in the end lead to a
paranoia of suspicion and to the use of violence to
re-establish public order.
Paul McCarthy
Basement Bunker: Painted Queen Small Blue Room, U.S.A, 2003
C print on aluminum (photo by Anne-Marie Rounkle)183x122cm
Exhibition HEARTQUAKE, which was
dedicated to exploring anxiety in its local and
universal contexts, was opened in July 2008.
HeartQuake tried to expose and to
accentuate people’s emotional confrontation
with their surroundings, and through the
prism of anxiety to examine their responses
as injurers and as injured - with the aim of
understanding and influencing the dynamics
of social and political relations.
Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson
Bulletproof Evening Gown (exhibition copy), Sweden,1993
Fabric sculpture,
180x70x70 cm
Vahram Aghasyan, Ghost City, Armenia, 2005-2007
Digital print, 100X130 cm
In May 2009 NATURE NATION opened at the
Museum Nature Nation is based on diverse aspects
of distinctions, positions, beliefs, ideologies, and
social, political and economic points of departure
that explore the complex encounter between man
and the environment and between man and
nature. The exhibition proposed a critical reading,
which presumes that the encounter between them
is a mirror for broader phenomena. This mirror
reflects the crisis in the relations between man and
nature, which finds expression in neglect, conquest
and deterioration.
Edward Burtynsky
China Recycling #9, Circuit Boards/Guiyu,2000, Guangdong Province, 2004
Exhibition print, 122x147 cm
“While in the past, people would interpret anomalous climatic phenomena as a sign
of the Lord’s punishment, today we know that such phenomena are not necessarily
accidental, nor are they an expression of His wrath: they are largely a result of man’s
actions.
In January 2010, exhibition HomeLessHome opened at the
Museum. HomeLessHome aspired to investigate the relationship
between the private home and the state. It studied the formal and
functional similarity between the two spaces which enabled the
definition of both as "home" (the national home), and the
difference between them, which traditionally places the former in
the private (or natural) sphere and the latter in the political sphere.
The difference was explored in light of the traditional placement
(since Aristotle) of the home as the "other" of the political,
containing what has been removed from it, and thus defining the
contours of the political, which it may not trespass. The home is
seen as something "natural", as a space dominated by needs that
are of no interest to the designed public space. Its interior is
identified as a private, safe space, beyond the reach of legitimate
intervention of the state.
Michael Wolf, Image A27 from the series Architecture of Density,
Hong Kong, 2003
Eyad Baba, Gaza, Palestine, 2009, Color photograph 80/135 cm