until Saturday June 01 2013
Galerie Thaddaeus ropac
T : +33 (0)1 55 89 01 10
69, avenue du Général Leclerc
93500 Pantin
France
"Disaster / The End of Days"- This exhibition looks at current perceptions of disaster through a dialogue between artists from a variety of cultural and social backgrounds, working in media from painting to photography, video and installation.
The word disaster comes from “disastro” (dis- and astrum, “bad star” or “star out of position,” thought to cause harm). It expresses the notion of catastrophe, decline and destruction, a wholly negative event.The theme of disaster has a rich iconography and set of interpretations, and continues to fascinate contemporary artists.
Artists showed:
Mahmoud Bakhshi - Jules de Balincourt - Barry X Ball - Ali Banisadr - Georg Baselitz - Philippe Bradshaw - Marc Brandenburg - Dexter Dalwood - Elger Esser - Harun Farocki - Ghazel - Gilbert & George - Amos Gitai - Wang Guangyi - Zhang Huan - Anselm Kiefer - Nate Lowman - Robert Longo - Liza Lou - Farhad Moshiri - Jack Pierson - Ged Quinn - Marc Quinn - Daniel Richter - Tom Sachs - Michael Sailstorfer - Banks Violette - Yan Pei-Ming
