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LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?

Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"
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Thomas Hirschhorn
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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...More expand_more

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Installation View of "LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?"
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LAST CHANCE: What can we learn from History of Art, for today’s understanding?

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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...More expand_more

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10 Rue Charlot, 75003 Paris, France
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b. 1957, Switzerland
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Thomas Hirschhorn
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Apr 26, 2025 — Jun 04, 2025
Galerie Chantal Crousel10 Rue Charlot, 75003 Paris, France
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Galerie Chantal Crousel10 Rue Charlot, 75003 Paris, France
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