Sunday, February 12, 2006
Utopia Station - Hans Ulrich Obrist - Hans Haacke,
I want to copy Hans Haacke, he has stolen my life.
Hans Haacke is probably most famous for an exhibition of his at the Guggenheim that was cancelled at the last minute at the request of the museum director. Hans Haacke photographed the slum buildings that were owned by a number of the Guggenheim board.
Hans Haacke reclaimed photography as a documentary, journalistic tool in art and at the same time re-politicized art.
Hans Haacke says this: "Today museums and comparable art institutions, like e.g. the ICA in London, belong to that group of agents in a society who have a sizeable, although not an exclusive, share, in this cultural power on the level of so-called 'high art'. Irrespective of the 'avant-garde' or 'conservative, 'rightist' or 'leftist' stance a museum might take, it is, among other things, a carrier of socio-political connotations. By the very structure of its existence, it is a political institution."
Why then should art with any kind of political stance be in an art gallery, why does it not take the form of advertising? ¶ 10:48 AM
I want to copy Hans Haacke, he has stolen my life.
Hans Haacke is probably most famous for an exhibition of his at the Guggenheim that was cancelled at the last minute at the request of the museum director. Hans Haacke photographed the slum buildings that were owned by a number of the Guggenheim board.
Hans Haacke reclaimed photography as a documentary, journalistic tool in art and at the same time re-politicized art.
Hans Haacke says this: "Today museums and comparable art institutions, like e.g. the ICA in London, belong to that group of agents in a society who have a sizeable, although not an exclusive, share, in this cultural power on the level of so-called 'high art'. Irrespective of the 'avant-garde' or 'conservative, 'rightist' or 'leftist' stance a museum might take, it is, among other things, a carrier of socio-political connotations. By the very structure of its existence, it is a political institution."
Why then should art with any kind of political stance be in an art gallery, why does it not take the form of advertising? ¶ 10:48 AM
