ARTISTS
Poetry for Revolutions. A Group Show with Manifestos & Proposals
In the historical avant-garde, such as Futurism or Dada, the manifesto advanced to become an important stylistic device for expressing convictions and criticism, for making them 芦tangible禄 and 芦evident,禄 as the etymological origin 芦manifestus禄 already indicates. Art should not preserve and maintain appearances, but rather reveal, 芦do,禄 change the world and people. In the exhibition 芦Poetry for Revolutions禄, artists and writers respond in their own artistic language to the globally entangled crises or reflect on the culture of sharing and manifesting. They do so at a time when manifestos or monuments seem to have gone out of fashion, yet events call for action, for remembering whilst at the same time for breaking free. Art does not depict one-dimensionally, it condenses, isolates, differentiates, confuses, unravels 鈥� be it poetic, radical, subtle or concrete. This raises the question of what position the authors take and to what extent art shapes political people or rather creates a pseudo-political space.
The group exhibition 芦Poetry for Revolutions禄 brings together manifestos by fifteen artists 鈥� one contribution each for Zurich and Rome, some identical, some slightly different. The content and formal characteristics are diverse. They deal with the ecological crisis, the power of language or the pharmaceutical industry, the handling of ideologies or resources, longings in dystopian times, collective imaginations and identitarian attributions. From a curatorial point of view, the contributions also deal in a certain way with the great ideology of 鈥渄emocracy,鈥� which can never be neutral, but is committed to certain values.
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In the historical avant-garde, such as Futurism or Dada, the manifesto advanced to become an important stylistic device for expressing convictions and criticism, for making them 芦tangible禄 and 芦evident,禄 as the etymological origin 芦manifestus禄 already indicates. Art should not preserve and maintain appearances, but rather reveal, 芦do,禄 change the world and people. In the exhibition 芦Poetry for Revolutions禄, artists and writers respond in their own artistic language to the globally entangled crises or reflect on the culture of sharing and manifesting. They do so at a time when manifestos or monuments seem to have gone out of fashion, yet events call for action, for remembering whilst at the same time for breaking free. Art does not depict one-dimensionally, it condenses, isolates, differentiates, confuses, unravels 鈥� be it poetic, radical, subtle or concrete. This raises the question of what position the authors take and to what extent art shapes political people or rather creates a pseudo-political space.
The group exhibition 芦Poetry for Revolutions禄 brings together manifestos by fifteen artists 鈥� one contribution each for Zurich and Rome, some identical, some slightly different. The content and formal characteristics are diverse. They deal with the ecological crisis, the power of language or the pharmaceutical industry, the handling of ideologies or resources, longings in dystopian times, collective imaginations and identitarian attributions. From a curatorial point of view, the contributions also deal in a certain way with the great ideology of 鈥渄emocracy,鈥� which can never be neutral, but is committed to certain values.
