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Alfredo Jaar
Embrace
- Estimate
- $20,000 - 30,000
Lot Details
quadvision lightbox with four color transparencies
24 7/8 x 22 1/8 x 3 1/2 in. (63.2 x 56.2 x 8.9 cm)
Executed in 1996, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
This work is part of the Rwanda Project (1994-2000). After quadvisions became obsolete, the work was adapted to a video, displayed on a vertical monitor, which rotates the four same images. This work is in the original quadvision format.
Provenance
Exhibited
Alfredo Jaar
Chilean | 1956Born in Santiago, Alfredo Jaar studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile. He was the first Latin American to participate in the Aperto Section of the Venice Biennale of 1986. His art interrogates the relationship between First and Third World countries and their interplay within the global economy through community-based projects, photographs, installations and film.
Jaar's engagement with social and political issues in the larger global context is focused on the experience of the individual's endurance in different conflicts and personal narratives. He also explores the limitations of art in representing these humanitarian events in a society that has become desensitized to images depicting mordant issues, such as genocides and famines. His thoughtful and provocative works often address politically charged issues in subtle and poetic ways, creating new perspectives for reflecting on important world issues.
Browse ArtistJaar's engagement with social and political issues in the larger global context is focused on the experience of the individual's endurance in different conflicts and personal narratives. He also explores the limitations of art in representing these humanitarian events in a society that has become desensitized to images depicting mordant issues, such as genocides and famines. His thoughtful and provocative works often address politically charged issues in subtle and poetic ways, creating new perspectives for reflecting on important world issues.