The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) presents, within its program Fisuras, the latest project by the Viennese artist Andreas Fogarasi (1977).
Awarded with the Golden Lion for his installation at the Hungarian pavilion in the last Venice Biennale, Fogarasi is considered one of the most promising young Austrian artists.
With a transversal reading of history and a critical use of exhibition space as the point of departure, in this show the artist analyses the use of abstract art as an element of modernism during the Cold War and explores how this fact can be associated with the process by which contemporary cities have become settings of representation and control.
Andreas Fogarasi (Vienna, 1977) examines the aestheticization and commercialization of urban space and the use of architecture, art and design as instruments of legitimation at the service of power, using different media and formats, from video, photography and text up through installation art and sculpture
In his work, Fogarasi articulates broad, complex webs of discourse that explore the mechanisms by which cultural hegemony is represented, as well as their possible fault lines. His pieces are referential and didactic in appearance but also have a strong aesthetic and formal presence, in which echoes of minimalism and conceptual art can be heard.
Date: until January 9.
Place: Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Santa Isabel 52, 28012, Madrid. Spain.
Opening hours: from Monday to Saturday from 10am to 9pm. Sundays from 10am to 2.30pm.
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