LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?
Galerie Chantal Crousel•Nov 23, 2024 — Jan 18, 2025
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For his exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Thomas Hirschhorn presents a new body of works Art-History-Plaques, a continuation of his works inspired by the aesthetics of Instagram posts referring here to Art History and its legacy. — It seems—facing today’s wars in Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, among others—that we are not able to learn from History. Every day’s new deaths, injuries, destructions and ruins show us with cruelty that we are not able or unwilling to learn and draw the consequences of the past. Politicians, historians can’t or don’t want to help us understand our present times in order to change things.
Reflecting upon this—I, as an artist—want to assert the postulate that, if ‘Big History’, political, geographical, economical, cultural History can’t teach us, we must learn from History of Art—as our LAST CHANCE. The affirmation is therefore: History of Art must teach us to understand the world we are living in today. History of Art is what can…
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LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?
Galerie Chantal Crousel•Nov 23, 2024 — Jan 18, 2025
Press Release
For his exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Thomas Hirschhorn presents a new body of works Art-History-Plaques, a continuation of his works inspired by the aesthetics of Instagram posts referring here to Art History and its legacy. — It seems—facing today’s wars in Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, among others—that we are not able to learn from History. Every day’s new deaths, injuries, destructions and ruins show us with cruelty that we are not able or unwilling to learn and draw the consequences of the past. Politicians, historians can’t or don’t want to help us understand our present times in order to change things.
Reflecting upon this—I, as an artist—want to assert the postulate that, if ‘Big History’, political, geographical, economical, cultural History can’t teach us, we must learn from History of Art—as our LAST CHANCE. The affirmation is therefore: History of Art must teach us to understand the world we are living in today. History of Art is what can…
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