Rome, 31/03/2019. Visiting and documenting the ongoing Julian Rosefeldt's (1.) Manifesto installation at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The installation covers 13 large screens and "the work, which was shown for the first time in 2015, pays homage to the moving tradition and literary beauty of 20th century artist manifestos, ultimately questioning the role of the artist in society today" [...] "Each season presents a different situation focusing, apart from the...
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Rome, 31/03/2019. Visiting and documenting the ongoing Julian Rosefeldt's (1.) Manifesto installation at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The installation covers 13 large screens and "the work, which was shown for the first time in 2015, pays homage to the moving tradition and literary beauty of 20th century artist manifestos, ultimately questioning the role of the artist in society today" [...] "Each season presents a different situation focusing, apart from the prologue, on eleven different female figures and on one male figure: a homeless man, a worker in a waste incineration plant, a CEO, a punk, a scientist, the speaker at a funeral, a puppeteer, the mother of a conservative family, a choreographer, a newsreader and a teacher. All the characters are played by Australian actress Cate Blanchett", (Source, Palazzoesposizioni.it, 1.).
List of Manifestos included in the installation: (Prologue), Situationism, Futurism, Architecture, Vorticism - Cavaliere Azzurro (Der Blaue Reiter) - Abstract Expressionism, Stridentisme - Creationism, Suprematism - Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism - Spatialism, Pop Art, Fluxus - Merz - Happening, Conceptual Art - Minimalism, Cinema (Epilogue) .
Footnotes and Links:
1.
https://www.julianrosefeldt.com/
2.
https://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/mostra/manifesto-julian-rosefeldt-eng (English)
https://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/mostra/manifesto-julian-rosefeldt (Italian)
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