#minujin

[ageofwarhol]

Marta Minujín (Argentina) – Frozen Sex Series

Today more than ever it is the task of Marxist critics to expose the popular equation of art and life for what it is-nothing but a mystification; what we need is a critical analysis of the unprecedented aesthetization of everyday life that took place in Western countries in the postwar era. (…) Remembering Marx's thesis that the human senses are the result of thousands of years of development, we may legitimately ask whether human sensuality itself might not undergo a qualitative change if the present manipulation of our sensual perceptions is continued over a long period of time. A Marxist theory of sensuality and fantasy under late capitalism must be developed, and this theory should provide an impulse to change everyday life. – Huyssen, 1975 (in The Cultural Politics of Pop: Reception and Critique of US Pop Art in the Federal Republic of Germany)

Images:

Marta Minujín, Untitled, 1973. Acrylic on canvas. 129 x 129 cm.

Exhibition Frozen Sex at Henrique Farias Gallery, Buenos Aires (2018).

Marta Minujín in her studio during the early 1970s (either in Washington DC or New York City).

Marta Minujín, Untitled, 1973. Acrylic on canvas. 129 x 129 cm.

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[museoportatil]

Marta Minujin, Andy Warhol, Frank Auerbach, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney y Salvador Dali.

[elladastinkardiamou]

Artist is Creating a Parthenon Made of 100,000 Banned Books: A Monument to Democracy & Intellectual Freedom

With the rise of Far Right candidates in Europe and in America, along with creeping dictatorship in Turkey and authoritarianism in the Philippines, the idea of democracy and freedom of speech feels under threat more than ever. While we don’t talk about political solutions here on Open Culture, we do believe in the power of art to illuminate.

Argentine artist Marta Minujín is creating a large-scale artwork called The Parthenon of Books that will be constructed on Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, Germany, and will be constructed from as many as 100,000 banned books from all over the world.

The location has been chosen for its historical importance. In 1933, the Nazis burned two-thousand books there during the so-called “Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist” (Campaign against the Un-German Spirit), destroying books by Communists, Jews, and pacifists, along with any others deemed un-German.

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[elladastinkardiamou]

Documenta to restage Acropolis of banned books

A huge replica of the Acropolis in Athens, made from 100,000 banned books, will rise in the Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, Germany, next year, as part of Documenta 14 (Athens, 8 April-16 July; Kassel, 10 June-17 September 2017). The work is a restaging of The Parthenon of Books by the Argentine artist Marta Minujín, who created the piece in Buenos Aires in 1983, shortly after the collapse of the country’s dictatorship. The installation will include books that remain censored in some territories and volumes that have recently been reissued after bans. The Friedrichsplatz has been chosen because it was the site of pro-Nazi book burnings in 1933 and because of its proximity to the Fridericianum, the great library and museum founded in 1779. During an Allied bombing attack in 1941, 350,000 books were destroyed.

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