Mounir Fatmi
Mounir Fatmi was born 1970 BirthTanger, Morocco.
Lives and works in HomeParis, France.
Categories: Installation art
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Mounir Fatmi’s work can be of political or existential nature while being aesthetic. The question of "the other", an external being, is a permanent element of his creation. Born in Morocco in 1970, he now shares his life between Paris and Tangiers. Fatmi auscultates the role of an artist who feels as a foreigner towards his own cultural context, which is, in fact, his own role…
Mounir Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games that aim to free the viewers from their preconceptions of politics and religion, and allows them to contemplate these and other subjects in new ways…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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