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Cement, beton en the body without organs: een systeemtheorie van Mexico Stad##Pedro Reyes in gesprek met Manuel de Landa
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Transformers
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ISBN: 9788875705374 Year: 2015 Publisher: Mantova Corraini Edizioni

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Elephant Cemetery
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Artists reclaim the commons : new works, new territories, new publics
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Braunschweig parcours 2004
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The Unexpected Guest: Art, writing and thinkin about hospitality
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Le spectacle du quotidien : X° biennale de Lyon.
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Ekphrasis : L'écriture dans l'art
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ISBN: 9782960191493 2960191498 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bruxelles Boghossian Fondation

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The Boghossian Foundation is pleased to present the exhibition Ekphrasis, curated by Bruno Cora, director of the Burri Foundation in Italy. It brings together pieces from more than forty artists from around the world, whose styles are as varied as the media they use, but in whose works the use of language plays a key role. The definition of ekphrasis is a laudatory and constructed description of a work of art, real or imaginary, often designed on a model so as to achieve great evocative force. The first famous ekphrasis goes back to Greek Antiquity: this is the description Homer gives of Achilles? shield in the Iliad. The weapon was forged by Hephaestus so that?everyone should be amazed? If the rhetorical exercise of ekphrasis presents itself as an ancient practice, the genre has been used throughout the ages with remarkable continuity, with many famous writers exploring it. Conversely, many artists have also been inspired by reading ekphrases, like Botticelli, who produced a canvas based on a description from Antiquity. In fact, there is a great tradition of artists who have concerned themselves with both the visual arts and literature, poetry or politics, and for whom language is a constituent element of their work. The exhibition explores through the contemporary artists gathered here the issues raised and various preferred modes of the use of language in visual art.

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