Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autoportrait avec pouce opposable XX, 2013, paint on plaster, 36 x 35.5 x 2.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Ten years after the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008, which profoundly shook the economic systems of America and Europe and had a lasting effect on present-day life, this topical exhibition is the first to illustrate the economy’s dramatic influence on art and to make global comparisons, demonstrating these in an analysis of two separate eras. Economic phenomena in the classical modernism of the 1920s and 30s are not only explored by focusing on art from the German Weimar Republic, the Soviet Union, and the United States, but also juxtaposed with artists of the present day.
Abraham Cruzvillegas will be in conversation with Thorsten Pinkepank, Director Sustainability Relations of BASF, on February 17, 2019 at 3.30 pm.
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