Jorge Otero-Pailos, The Ethics of Dust, 2009
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, committed to commissioning and the production of
unconventional contemporary art projects, is contributing two new provocative works to Fare
Mondi // Making Worlds, the official exhibition of the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, curated by Daniel
Birnbaum. The Ethics of Dust:
Doges Palace, Venice, 2009 by Jorge Otero-Pailos is installed in the Corderie in the Arsenale.
A one-day symposium The Last Temptation of the Contemporary. Art/Architecture
Experimentation with Heritage at Istituto Veneto contextualizes the projects within todays
discussions on architecture, preservation and art.
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April 26th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
beautiful and …
beautiful and disturbing.
i’m not sure i buy the argument that the most radical thing to do today is to preserve something (it’s certainly a constructive thing to do), but i love that that the dangling latex, the waste product of the cleaning process, both signifies AND embodies the real output of the culture. the fact that the latex is itself the medium for the retention of another waste product its a delightful twofer.
April 26th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
In its most …
In its most rewarding moments, art makes the familiar strange. We are not used to looking so directly or so closely at the collective impact our choices have on human inheritance. At the risk of venerating destruction by aestheticizing pollution, this is art that reveals air pollution as one of the most consequential and long-lived artifacts of contemporary human culture as a precondition to taking more effective collective responsibility for it. Bravo Jorge! Where next?
April 26th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Magnífico, Jorge
Magnífico, Jorge