Magiciens de la Terre,1998
ed. by Lucy Steeds ; with additional essays by Pablo Lafuente and Jean-Marc Poinsot ; previously unpublished essays by Jean-Hubert Martin and Gayatri Spivak, responses from Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Alfredo Jaar and Barbara Kruger, and archival texts by Rasheed Araeen, Jean Fisher and Thomas McEvilley.
- Author(s)
- Pablo Lafuente, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Jean-Hubert Martin and Gayatri Spivak, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Alfredo Jaar, Barbara Kruger, Rasheed Araeen, Jean Fisher, Thomas McEvilley
- Editor(s)
- Lucy Steeds
- Publication
- London : Afterall Books, 2013
- Scope
- 304 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
- Carrier
- exhibition catalogue
- ISBN
- 9783863352585
In 1989, in the wake of the infamous Primitivism show at MOMA, curator Jean-Hubert Martin set out to create a show that counteracted ethnocentric practices within the contemporary art world as a replacement for the format of the traditional Paris Biennial. Magiciens de la Terre (Magicians of the Earth) became a famous contemporary art exhibit at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande halle de la Villette in Paris (18 May to 14 August 1989). The exhibition featured 50% Western and 50% non-Western artists shoulder to shoulder in an equal manner where all participants were still alive at the time of exhibiting, making it truly contemporary. Magiciens de la Terre argued for the universality of the creative impulse and endeavored to offer direct aesthetic experience of contemporary works of art made globally and presented on equal terms. This was an attempt by Martin and his curatorial team to subvert the illusion of Eurocentric superiority in the field of artistic representation and the vision of the world inherited from the colonial age
- Person as subject
- stanley brouwn, Francesco CLemente, Rasheed Araeen, Nick Dumbrang, Marina Abramović, Dennis Adams, Sunday Jack Akpan, Jean-Hubert Martin, .. (et al.)
- Keywords
- multiculturality , (de)colonisation
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 3: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Algemeen
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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