Fondazione merz alfredo jaar biography

  • Alfredo Jaar's new project plays on the idea of reflection (as both reproduction of images and thought or consideration) along the trajectory of his interest.
  • Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956.
  • Born in 1956, Santiago, Chile, lives and work in New York, United States.

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    Alfredo Jaar

    Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).


    Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin (2012); Rencontres d’Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweeden (2019) and SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (2021).


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    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea Rossetti

    • Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, 2013_Photo Andrea

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      Alfredo Jaar

      Alfredo Jaar 
      Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione
      November 5, 2013–February 2, 2014

      Opening: Monday, November 4, 7pm 

      Fondazione Merz
      via Limone 24
      10141 Torino
      Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–7pm 

      T +011 19719437
      info [​at​] fondazionemerz.org

      www.fondazionemerz.org

      Curated by Claudia Gioia

      Opening November 5, Fondazione Merz presents Alfredo Jaar. Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione (We loved it so much, the revolution), a major exhibition curated by Claudia Gioia and dedicated to the work of one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today. 

      Specifically created for this exhibition, Alfredo Jaar’s new project plays on the idea of reflection (as both reproduction of images and thought or consideration) and the relations between culture and democratic life, as he questions the sense of memory and political participation in the sixties and seventies. He does so not as an act of c

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