Buenos Aires, 13 May to 18 July 2004
Text and pictures received from David Tartakover, Sandy K. and Marta Almeida.
The world crisis of the neo liberal politics of the years 80 and 90 take a horizon unhinged by the political violence, the hunger, the unemployment and the expectative of the future. The massive emigration that produced, since the most affected zones toward the central countries, is one of its more serious consequences, especially by the violent reactions that generated in these countries.
The exhibition present different intervention forms in the visual systems of communication: visual activist we are interested in the social events and the reflections that these can cause. The thematic included installations in the visual land, posters, the editorial design, music and architecture. The exhibition propose undertake the measure in which the visual communication can contribute, as suggests Vincent Perrotet, to change conducts or to install a space of reflection on problems in the contemporary world. Artists, graphistes and designers: El Fantasma de Heredia (Argentine), Sandy K. (Germany), Alain Le Quernec (France), Alejandro Magallanes (Mexico), Alejandro Ros (Argentine), David Tartakover (Israel), Garth Walker (South Africa) and the Argentinean artists: ABTE, BsAsStencil, Doma, Fase, M777, Pare y Suscripcion.
The event is being organized by the Secretary of Culture of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, and curated by Marta Almeida.
For more information, please call estudioabierto@ciudad.com.ar .
Place: Espacio Casa de la Cultura, Avenida de Mayo 575, subsuelo, Buenos Aires (AR).
