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Indepth Arts News:
"United Nations Miniature: Thomas Hirschhorn"
2003-09-22 until 2003-11-16
Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga
Malaga, ,
ES Spain
United Nations Miniature is the title of a large-scale
exhibition which
Thomas Hirschhorn (born Bern, 1957) will be presenting at
the CAC Malaga
from 20 September. In it, the Swiss artist conveys the
viewer to a battle
field to reveal the horrors and barbarity that result from
war.
In a totally committed spirit, Hirschhorn denounces
inequalities and
injustice while at the same time inviting us to reflect on
the reality of
current politics. United Nations Miniature represents a
devastated, chaotic
space, reflecting the full dimension of the tragedy through
the appropriate,
even inevitable, use of waste materials.
Thomas Hirschhorn studied graphic design in Zurich, a
profession which he
abandoned when he decided that it was too closely linked to
commercial and
private interests. From then on he has devoted himself to
art, working in
different media – sculpture, video and installation –
considering art to be
an inseparable part of social and political critique.
Through the use of everyday elements and recycled
materials, Thomas
Hirschhorn denounces the excessive consumerism of
contemporary society. In
the same way, his work is characterised by an abundance of
images and text,
sometimes resulting in a overloading of data which imitates
the process of
confrontation of the artist with the excess of information
in our daily
lives.
Thomas Hirschhorn lives and works in Paris. His
installations and other
works have been exhibited in centres and institutions such
as the Centre
Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago,
the Renaissance
Society in Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Barcelona. In 1999
he took part in the Venice Biennial.
The CAC Malaga has a work by the artist in its permanent
collection entitled
Art Center 6 (Blow down, 2001). Currently on show to the
public, it
recreates the different rooms of a house. The work features
all the
characteristics that define Hirschhorn’s art: precarious
and ephemeral
construction in which recycled materials predominate, used
by the artist to
create small cosmologies and visual universes.
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