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Magiciens de la terre Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, La Villette, la Grande Halle

Catalog Data

Author:
Matin, Jean Hubert  Search this
Centre Georges Pompidou  Search this
Physical description:
271 pages illustrations (some color) 36 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
1989
20th century
20e siècle
Notes:
Catalog and exhibition prepared under the direction of Jean-Hubert Martin and others
Exhibition held May 18-Aug. 14, 1989
AFA copy 39088008891913 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, from the library of Philip L. Ravenhill, Chief Curator, National Museum of African Art, 1986-1997.
Contents:
Préface / Jean-Hubert Martin -- IL -- visiteur qui cherche le sens? -- joue à revenit sur ses pas / Aline Luque -- True stories, our carte du monde poétique / Mark Francis -- 6°48' sud 38°39' est / André Magnin -- La planète tout entiè, efin ... / Pierre Gaudibert -- Ouverture du piège : l'exposition postmoderne et "Magiciens de la Terre" / Thomas McEvilley -- Hybridité, identité et culture contemporaine / Homi Bhabha -- Ravissantes périphéries / Jacques Soulillou -- L'autre, ce grand alibi / Bernard Marcadé -- Atlas des 100 artistes exposés
Artists (Atlas des 100 artistes exposés): Marina Abramović (Serbia) -- Dennis Adams (US) -- Sunday Jack Akpan (Nigeria) -- Jean-Michel Alberola (Algeria) -- Dossou Amidou (Benin) -- Giovanni Anselmo (Italy) -- Rasheed Araeen (Pakistan) -- Nuche Kaji Bajracharya (Nepal) -- John Baldessari (US) -- José Bédia (Cuba) -- Joe Ben Jr (US) -- Pan Dehai (China) -- Jean-Pierre Bertrand (France) -- Gabriel Bien-Aimé (Haiti) -- Alighiero Boetti (Italy) -- Christian Boltanski (France) -- Erik Boulatov (Russia) -- Louise Bourgeois (France) -- Stanley Brouwn (Suriname) -- Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast) -- Daniel Buren (France) -- James Lee Byars (US) -- Seni Camara (Senegal) -- Mike Chukwukelu (Nigeria) -- Francesco Clemente (Italy) -- Marc Couturier (France) -- Tony Cragg (UK) -- Enzo Cucchi (Italy) -- Cleitus Dambi (Papua New Guinea) -- Neil Dawson (New Zealand) -- Bowa Devi (India) -- Maestre Didi (Brazil) -- Braco Dimitrijević (Bosnia) -- Nick Dumbrang (Papua New Guinea) -- Efiaimbelo (Madagascar) -- Nathan Emedem (Nigeria) -- John Fundi (Mozambique) -- Julio Galan (Mexico) --Moshe Gershuni (Israel) -- Enrique Gomez (Panama) -- Dexing Gu (China) -- Hans Haacke (Germany) -- Rebecca Horn (Germany) -- Shirazeh Houshiary (Iran) -- Yong Ping Huang (China) -- Alfredo Jaar (Chile) -- Nera Jambruk (Papua New Guinea) -- Ilya Kabakov (Ukraine) -- Tatsuo Kawaguchi (Japan) -- On Kawara (Japan) -- Anselm Kiefer (Germany) -- Bodys Isek Kingelez (DR Congo) -- Per Kirkeby (Denmark) -- John Knight (US) -- Agbagli Kossi (Togo) -- Barbara Kruger (US) -- Paulosee Kuniliusee (Canada) -- Kane Kwei (Ghana) -- Boujemaâ Lakhdar (Morocco) -- Georges Liautaud (Haiti) -- Felipe Linares (Mexico) -- Richard Long (UK) -- Esther Mahlangu (South Africa) -- Karel Malich (Czech Republic) -- Jivya Soma Mashe (India) *[included in catalog but did not participate in the show] -- John Mawandjul (Australia) -- Cildo Meireles (Brazil) -- Mario Merz (Italy) -- Miralda (Spain) -- Tatsuo Miyajima (Japan) -- Norval Morrisseau (Canada) -- Juan Muñoz (Spain) -- Henry Munyaradzi (Zimbabwe) -- Claes Oldenburg (Sweden) -- Nam June Paik (South Korea) -- Lobsang Palden (Nepal) -- Wesner Philidor (Haiti) -- Sigmar Polke (Germany) -- Temba Rabden (Tibet) *[included in catalog but did not participate in the show] -- Ronaldo Pereira Rego (Brazil) -- Chéri Samba (DR Congo) -- Sarkis (Turkey) -- Raja Babu Sharma (India) -- Jangarh Singh Sharma (India) -- Bhorda Sherpa (Nepal) -- Nancy Spero (US) -- Daniel Spoerri (Romania) -- Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan) -- Yousuf Thannoon (Iraq) -- Lobsang Thinle (Nepal) -- Cyprien Tokoudagba (Benin) -- Twins Seven Seven (Nigeria) -- Ulay (Germany) -- Ken Unsworth (Australia) -- Chief Mark Unya (Nigeria) -- Coosje Van Bruggen (Netherlands) -- Patrick Vilaire (Haiti) -- Acharya Vyakul (India) -- Jeff Wall (Canada) -- Lawrence Weiner (US) -- Ruedi Wem (Papua New Guinea) -- Krzysztof Wodiczko (Poland) -- Jimmy Wululu (Australia) -- Jack Wunuwun (Australia) -- Jie Cang Yang (China) -- (Comunità) Aboriginal community of Yuendumu (Australia) -- Zush (Spain)
Summary:
"Magiciens de la terre literally translates to "Magicians of the World." In 1989, in the wake of the infamous "Primitivism" show at MOMA, curator Jean-Hubert Martin set out to create a show that counteracted ethnocentric practices within the contemporary art world as a replacement for the format of the traditional Paris Biennial. (Buchloh 158) This exhibition sought to correct the problem of "one hundred percent of exhibitions ignoring 80 percent of the earth." He did this in his show, Magiciens de la Terre, exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande halle de la Villette. With "Magiciens de la terre" Martin had successfully organized an international exhibition of contemporary art that featured 50% Western and 50% non-Western artists shoulder to shoulder in an equal manner where all participants were still alive at the time of exhibiting, making it truly contemporary. Magiciens also marked a traditional departure from previous exhibitions of non-Western work by identifying non-Westerners by their proper names alongside their Western counterparts, who were always identified in this manner. The artists were presented individuals rather than by geographic region or time period as was commonplace. This was an attempt by Martin and his curatorial team to subvert the illusion of Eurocentric superiority in the field of artistic representation and the vision of the world inherited from the colonial age. Martin's show worked to confront problems presented by several exhibitions that perpetuated a colonialist mentality, the most recent being the aforementioned show, "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Many critics condemned "Primitivism", as it fell into a similar Modernist trap of providing only a pure aesthetization of the work of native cultures. "Primitivism" stated that it was only interested in displaying tribal works that influenced Modern artists and studying how this phenomenon functioned within the Modernist discourse. Many of the tribal works were presented vis-à-vis Modernist works when little or no historical evidence of these works drawing inspiration from specific "primitive" works or, in some cases, even a "primitive" idiom"--Wikipedia entry for "Magiciens de la terre" (viewed March 29, 2017)
Topic:
Art, Modern  Search this
Art  Search this
Postmodernism  Search this
Folk art  Search this
Art primitif  Search this
Postmodernisme  Search this
Art populaire  Search this
Beeldende kunsten  Search this
Magie  Search this
Beïnvloeding  Search this
Art--20th--Exhibitions  Search this
Call number:
N6488.F8 P3525 1989 fol
N72.S6 M192 1989
N72.S6M192 1989
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1158131