Art Of The Day Weekly
#395 - from 2 July 2015 to 8 July 2015
Alfredo Jaar, installation, Biennale di Venezia 2013. Courtesy Alfredo Jaar.
Alfredo Jaar, memory and reality
Alfredo Jaar was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile and left his country to flee the military dictatorship. He is artist, architect and movie director. Settlend in New York for over thirty years, he questions the reality that transmits images, the expression of memory –in particular in the countries of the Southern hemisphere which went through totalitarian periods -, and the marketization of art. He became famous with his first “performance” in 1979 in which he asked the residents of Santiago if they were happy. Used to the Biennales of São Paulo and Venice, he presented at the latter in 2013 a model of the Biennale sunken under a blanket of green water. The worst is always possible.
• Alfredo Jaar is present at the Musée d’art contemporain de Marseille, from 4 July 2015 to 10 January 2016.