Filip Markiewicz /
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| Imprint: | Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2020. |
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| Description: | 218 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12383321 |
| Summary: | While Europe and the world are entangled in their own contradictions in celebrating economic growth and technical progress as the salvation horizon of humanity, Filip Markiewicz proposes to dive into a universe of signs and images that reflect the emptiness of our current discourses. He imagines his exhibitions as stages on which individuals are invited to watch the decline of their own civilisation. The myth of the automobile ends in desolate cemeteries of rusted engines and useless tires; giant bank notes stand for the deceptive show of perverted politics and media (self-)representation. As the artist stated in his theatre performance Fake Fiction (Theater Basel, 2017): "Today, we have all somehow turned into Bela Lugosi. The dance of the vampires of the European image can begin. It's time to put on the masks and drink the digital blood until our hard drive is formatted for eternity." |
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| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition held at NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, May 20-July 15, 2017, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, September 29-December 9, 2018, CCA Derry-Londonderry, March 23-May 11, 2019, and Kunsthalle Osnabrück, November 29, 2019-February 2, 2020. |
| Physical Description: | 218 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 3775747796 9783775747790 |
