Alfredo Jaar (1956) - Looking For Gramsci
The Gramsci Trilogy is a series of installations for MACRO, the contemporary art museum in Rome, dedicated to the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was imprisoned under Mussolini's fascist regime. In an interview following this 2005/6 exhibition, Jaar says: People sometimes describe me as a conceptual artist, as a political artist, with work with strong political connotations or social content. I always reject those labels. I'm an artist, and believe it or not, I'm interested in beauty and I'm not afraid of it. It is an essential tool to attract my audience, and sometimes I use it to introduce horror because the audience needs to be seduced. If we learned anything from the activist art of the 1960s, it's that when you make that kind of work, people don't even come close. They don't want to see a drop of blood on the floor. So beauty becomes a tool to bring the audience in(https://art21.org/read/alfredo-jaar-the-gramsci-trilogy).
For Texte zur Kunst, Alfredo Jaar selected a photograph from his project on Antonio Gramsci for MACRO, the contemporary art museum in Rome. The color photograph is numbered and signed on the back. 31/120, 2003 Dimensions image 40.8*27.2 cm, sheet 51.2*40.8 cm.
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The Gramsci Trilogy is a series of installations for MACRO, the contemporary art museum in Rome, dedicated to the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was imprisoned under Mussolini's fascist regime. In an interview following this 2005/6 exhibition, Jaar says: People sometimes describe me as a conceptual artist, as a political artist, with work with strong political connotations or social content. I always reject those labels. I'm an artist, and believe it or not, I'm interested in beauty and I'm not afraid of it. It is an essential tool to attract my audience, and sometimes I use it to introduce horror because the audience needs to be seduced. If we learned anything from the activist art of the 1960s, it's that when you make that kind of work, people don't even come close. They don't want to see a drop of blood on the floor. So beauty becomes a tool to bring the audience in(https://art21.org/read/alfredo-jaar-the-gramsci-trilogy).
For Texte zur Kunst, Alfredo Jaar selected a photograph from his project on Antonio Gramsci for MACRO, the contemporary art museum in Rome. The color photograph is numbered and signed on the back. 31/120, 2003 Dimensions image 40.8*27.2 cm, sheet 51.2*40.8 cm.
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