Alfredo Jaar

 
Born 1956 in Santiago, artist, architect and filmaker Alfredo Jaar lives and works in New York. Working with such different media as public interventions, installations, photography, and video, he examines the nature of images and the viewers' relationship to them. The crucial questions that he keeps exploring in his work tackle the very possibility of producing art based on events that we would prefer to ignore, and of creating images in a context characterized both by their over-abundance and, paradoxically, by their invisibility. For close to 30 years he built up a body of work of enormous strength and of great sensitivity, closely linked to current events, but taking the opposite stance to sensationalist reports.

See also Erri De Luca: Bird Song; Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin: Letter to Jane; Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Ashes of Gramsci; John Cage: Other People Think (edited by Alfredo Jaar).

(external link : www.alfredojaar.net)
 
Alfredo Jaar - The Sound of Silence
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Reference monograph, with an essay by Okwui Enwezor, images of the most recent exhibitions and public interventions, as well as a selection of the artist's emblematic installations and press works since the mid-1980s.
Alfredo Jaar - La politique des images
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Comprehensive monograph following the development of Alfredo Jaar's work, with texts by Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière...


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