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The work of the Brazilian artist Artur Barrio consists mainly of situations or temporary synaesthetic installations made of perishable, fragile and organic materials such as coffee, bread, urine, charcoal, wine, cloth, texts and so on. The ephemeral character of Barrios installations compels the artist to seek alternative documentary techniques: photo, film, the artists book, etc. In this respect, as well as in his approach to material and what is known as the didactic mission, there are similarities in his work, in content and form, to that of Joseph Beuys (b. 1921 Krefeld d. 1986 Dusseldorf). The Barrio Beuys exhibition presents the work of these two artists for the first time in an imaginary dialogue. The S.M.A.K. will be the first museum where Artur Barrio has created a temporary installation so closely related to the museum, and parallel to the work of Joseph Beuys. Following this, Artur Barrio will visit several other European museums with a substantial Beuys collection where he will be able to continue his imaginary dialogue.


Artur Barrio (b. 1945, Porto) and Joseph Beuys (b. 1921, Krefeld, d. 1985, Düsseldorf) are from completely different generations and have radically different cultural backgrounds. They never even met. So why this double exhibition? There are actually crucial similarities between the work of these two artists, affinities which each of them developed individually out of their own needs, and which in our opinion more than justify a double exploratory exhibition. There follows a short explanation of this mutual affinity. The Brazilian artist Artur Barrio, whose exhibitions include the Fortaleza Biennale and the last Documenta, curated by Okwui Enwezor, is one of the alternative pioneers of the contemporary Brazilian art scene. In the seventies, Barrios temporary, synaesthetic, highly individual and intuitive installations caused a stormy upheaval in Brazils then experimental artistic climate. The materials he used, including coffee, bread, charcoal, wine, material, writing and urine, radically repudiated any art that took the form of a permanent and classically aesthetic experience. The ephemeral nature of Barrios work obliged him to look for alternative ways of documenting it photos, videos, artists books and suchlike which also became an integral part of the work. His consistent choice of always working entirely in situ also has to do with the works temporariness. Another important aspect of Barrios work is the radical way he puts the art institution into perspective. He considers the curator in contrast to what is still accepted practice as superfluous to the idea of the work of art and the exhibition. In his view the curator is forced back into the role of a purely logistical coordinator.


These crucial aspects of Barrios work make him one of the more important artists still living who most radically focus on and defend the ties between art and life (the intuitive-documentary aspect of art). It is not only in his use of intuitive and emotionally charged material that Barrio displays affinities with the work of Joseph Beuys, but also in his radical questioning of the function of art and its essential linkage to life. Here too just like Beuys he adopts a didactic-shamanistic position, as a sort of guru who pushes and pulls at the establishment and distils new ways of thinking and acting from this deconstruction. This explains the SMAKs plan to mount an exhibition on the oeuvre of these two artists, based explicitly on their similar mentalities. The Barrio Beuys exhibition brings the work of these two artists together for the first time in an imaginary dialogue. Entirely in keeping with his intuitive in situ mentality, Artur Barrio will create a temporary installation, based on the museum itself, in parallel with the work of Beuys, which forms a substantial presence in the museums collection. This project is part of a broader exploratory plan in which well-known artists from the West-European avant-garde are on each occasion related to an artist who, although important, has always kept to the margins. The possibility of setting up a series of exhibitions on this theme is currently being examined.

Bárrio --- Barrio, Artur --- Beuys, Joseph --- Barrio de Sousa Lopes, Artur Alípio, --- Beuys, Joseph, --- art [fine art] --- kunst --- Barrio, Arthur --- installatiekunstenaars --- installation artists --- art [discipline]

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Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- architecture [discipline] --- exhibition buildings --- Brecheret, Victor --- Barrio, Arthur --- Canella, Rogério --- Climachauska, Paulo --- Cordeiro, Waldemar --- Dias, Antonio --- Bill, Max --- Espirito Santo, do, Iran --- Leirner, Jac --- Manu, Rubens --- Manuel, Antonio --- Weissmann, Franz --- Meireles, Cildo --- Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion [São Paulo] --- Brazil

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Al jarenlang schrijft Philippe Van Cauteren, directeur van het Gentse S.M.A.K., brieven naar kunstenaars van over de hele wereld. Hij richt zich op een zeer persoonlijke manier tot kunstenaars die hem inspireren en legt hen uit waarom. Vaak zit in de brieven reeds de basis van een nieuwe tentoonstelling vervat. Van Cauteren richt zijn pen onder meer tot Michaël Borremans, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jan Fabre, Guillaume Bijl, Jef Geys, Jan Hoet, Ann Veronica Janssens, Mark Manders, Rinus Van de Velde en Vincent van Gogh.

kunst --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 7.071 AAAA --- museologie --- Gent --- Stedelijke Museum voor Actuele Kunst --- SMAK --- 7.039 --- musea --- kunstkritiek --- Art --- art [fine art] --- Climachauska, Paulo --- Goudzwaard, Kees --- Dörner, Michael --- Dujourie, Lili --- Franky D.C. --- Beukelaer, de, Sergio --- Ghekiere, Joris --- Garabedian, Mekhitar --- Buedts, Raphaël --- Geys, Jef --- Dijkstra, Anno --- Barrio, Arthur --- Barsch, Paul --- Fabre, Jan --- Wilde, De, Johan --- Eckes, Sacha --- Borremans, Michaël --- Bratkov, Sergei --- Bruyckere, De, Berlinde --- Althamer, Paweł --- Ghenie, Adrian --- Honoré d'O --- Bassiri, Bizhan --- Garcia, Dora --- Smet, de, Gery --- Bijl, Guillaume --- Delabie, Henk --- Bosmans, Kasper --- Lepeleire, De, Damien --- Erkmen, Ayşe --- Delrue, Ronny --- Beckmann, Matthias --- anno 2010-2019 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Breine, Lara Jakoba --- Hinrichs, Heide --- Gogh, van, Vincent --- Solakov, Nedko --- Tellez, Javier --- Nicolai, Carsten --- Velde, van de, Rinus --- Lohaus, Bernd --- Sudhues, Max --- Serse --- Lemke, André-Philip --- Marty, Enrique --- Macchi, Jorge --- Rogard, Arnaud --- Tahon, Johan --- Jackson, Richard --- Templeton, Ed --- Gijsegem, van, Paul --- Mannaers, Werner --- Theys, Koen --- Ruff, Thomas --- Hoet, Jan --- Tayou, Pascale Marthine --- Maes, Ives --- Manders, Mark --- Sabri, Salam Atta --- Villablanca, Joe --- Krystufek, Elke --- Wauman, Andy --- Maier Neustadt, Hermann --- Lodewijks, Bart --- Eynde, vanden, Patrick --- Hanssen, Karin --- Hoozee, Robert --- Janssens, Ann Veronica --- Rode, Jörg --- Kamagurka --- Wolfson, Jordan --- Eecken, Vander, Dirk --- Vanderlinden, Carole --- Weinberger, Lois --- Wenzel, Anne --- Schu, Manfredu --- Lee Kit --- Urmeneta Ottiker, Giannina --- Timmermans, Ante --- Beukelaer, De, Sergio --- O, d', Honoré --- 7.01 --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- García, Dora --- art [discipline]

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The rise of performance art, and its merging with more traditional forms like painting and sculpture, is the great revolution of postwar art. Its links to theater, photography, music, dance, politics, and popular culture have made it especially appealing to contemporary artists in remote areas; more than any other movement in recent art, performance has found a place throughout the world. Covering three decades of significant and original art, this book features work by more than one hundred artists from the United States, South America, Eastern and Western Europe, and Japan who have had a profound impact on the relationship between visual and performance art in the postwar era. Among the artists included are Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, John Cage, Lygia Clark, Yves Klein, Marta Minujin, Bruce Nauman, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, Atsuko Tanaka, and Jean Tinguely. Their work encompasses performative objects such as sculpture, artists' publications, drawings, photographs, and ephemera that come from performances, as well as documentary film and video stills. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Out of Actions illuminates the unique relationship between action, destruction, performance, and the creative process. Covering an unprecedented range of material, both nationally and temporally, the book offers the first critical comparisons of work that has previously been viewed as distinctly regional and unrelated.

body art [visual works, performance] --- Ehrenberg, Felipe --- Minujin, Marta --- Latham, John --- Chaimowicz, Marc Camille --- Shinohara, Ushio --- Guerilla Art Action Group --- Kaprow, Allan --- Hansen, Al --- Takamatsu, Jiro --- Todosijevic, Rasa Dragoljub --- Ságlová, Zorka --- Jonas, Joan --- Dine, Jim --- Hassinger, Maren --- Hijikata, Tatsumi --- Gilbert and George --- Knizak, Milan --- Fox, Terry --- Pinot Gallizio, Giuseppe --- Boyle, Mark --- Cotton, Paul --- Schilling, Alfons --- Lebel, Jean-Jacques --- Kudo, Tetsumi --- Grooms, Red --- Finn-Kelcey, Rose --- Greco, Alberto --- McLean, Bruce --- Kanayama, Akira --- Ortiz, Ralph --- Grigorescu, Ion --- Tanaka, Atsuko --- Brown, Robert Delford --- Muehl, Otto --- Stoerchle, Wolfgang --- Cointet, de, Guy --- Nengudi, Senga --- Rosenbach, Ulrike --- Hills, Joan --- Brown, Rhett Delford --- Smith, Barbara T. --- Moorman, Charlotte --- Journiac, Michel --- Williams, Emmett --- Neustein, Joshua --- Cage, John --- Reedy, Carlyle --- Maciunas, Georg --- Burden, Chris --- Shimamoto, Shozo --- Schwarzkogler, Rudolf --- Conwill, Houston --- Jones, Kim --- Schmit, Thomas --- Byars, James L. --- Araeen, Rasheed --- Barrio, Arthur --- Neagu, Paul --- Hammons, David --- Klauke, Jürgen --- Spoerri, Daniel --- Komar, Vitaly --- Ono, Yoko --- Akasegawa, Genpei --- Cosey Fanni Tutti --- Stembera, Petr --- Knowles, Alison --- Metzger, Gustav --- Brisley, Stuart --- Kantor, Tadeusz --- Vostell, Wolf --- Rinke, Klaus --- Oldenburg, Claes --- Pope L., William --- Oiticica, Hélio --- Maler, Leopoldo --- Hsieh, Tehching --- Marioni, Tom --- Trengove, Kerry --- Pape, Lygia --- Nakanishi, Natsuyuki --- Mathieu, Georges --- Pane, Gina --- Baden, Mowry --- Murakami, Saburo --- Kubota, Shigeko --- Paik, Nam June --- Medalla, David --- Higgins, Dick --- Brus, Günther --- Pace, Lorenzo --- Shiraga, Kazuo --- Weibel, Peter --- Gechtman, Gideon --- Cohen Gan, Pinchas --- Masuda, Cusi --- Thompson, Mark[1950] --- Mlcoch, Jan --- Hi Red Center --- Gruppo Zaj --- Action in art --- Action dans l'art --- Naslagwerken ; kunst ; 1949-1979 ; performances --- performances --- body art --- with essays by Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Clocker [et al.] --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- Murakami, Saburō --- Hi Red Center [Tokyo] --- kunst --- twintigste eeuw --- installaties --- 7.038 --- (069) --- naslagwerk --- (Musea. Collecties) --- photography [process] --- video art --- Art --- performance art --- happenings --- assemblages [sculpture] --- Kounellis, Jannis --- Lacy, Suzanne --- Duncan, John --- Montano, Linda --- Kusama, Yayoi --- Antin, Eleanor --- Schneemann, Carolee --- Pollock, Jackson --- Meireles, Cildo --- Brecht, George --- Filliou, Robert --- Labowitz, Leslie --- Gerz, Jochen --- Beuys, Joseph --- Sherk, Bonnie --- Horn, Rebecca --- Evangelista, Roberto --- Manzoni, Piero --- Roth, Dieter --- Rauschenberg, Robert --- Tinguely, Jean --- McCarthy, Paul --- Matta-Clark, Gordon --- Pistoletto, Michelangelo --- Abramovic, Marina --- Mendieta, Ana --- Export, Valie --- Grippo, Victor --- Saint-Phalle, de, Niki --- Nitsch, Hermann --- Ulay --- Nauman, Bruce --- Walther, Franz Erhard --- Piper, Adrian --- Kelley, Mike --- Lublin, Lea --- Hiller, Susan --- Clark, Lygia --- Wilke, Hannah --- Anderson, Laurie --- Klein, Yves --- Morris, Robert --- Hershman, Lynn --- Acconci, Vito --- West, Franz --- Vautier, Ben --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Performance art --- Arts, Modern --- Art de performance --- Arts modernes --- Themes, motives --- Exhibitions --- Influence --- Exhibitions. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Expositions --- Schmit, Tomas --- Todosijevic, Rasa --- Pope.L, William --- Gempei, Akasegawa --- Todosijević, Raša --- Art corporel --- Performance, art --- Knížák, Milan --- Influenc

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Art styles --- Art, Modern --- Art --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Documenta --- Beeldende kunst ; 1980-2002 ; Documenta XI (2002) --- Kassel ; Documenta XI ; curator Okwui Enwezor ; korte gids --- Kunsttentoonstellingen ; internationale --- 7.038 --- (069) --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- (Musea. Collecties) --- Redaktion Christian Rattemeyer --- kunst --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- video --- videokunst --- fotografie --- installaties --- Documenta 11 --- Enwezor Okwui --- Adeagbo Georges --- Agarwal Ravi --- Ahtila Eija-Liisa --- Akerman Chantal --- Ancelovici Gaston A. --- Armaly Fareed --- Ashkin Michael --- Asymptote --- Ataman Kutlug --- Atlas Group --- Bargmann Julie --- Levy Stacy --- Barrio Artur --- Becher Bernd --- Becher Hilla --- Bhimji Zarina --- Black Audio Film Collective --- Bock John --- Bonk Ecke --- Bruly Bouabré Frédéric --- Bourgeois Louise --- Braila Pavel --- Brouwn Stanley --- Bruguera Tania --- Camnitzer Luis --- Coleman James --- Constant --- Niewenhuys Constant --- Darboven Hanne --- Deacon Destiny --- Douglas Stan --- Edefalk Cecilia --- Eggleston William --- Eichhorn Maria --- Ennadre Touhami --- Evans Cerith Wyn --- Feng Mengbo --- Feyzdjou Chohreh --- Friedman Yona --- Gaba Meschac --- Gabellone Giuseppe --- Garaicoa Carlos --- Geers Kendell --- Genzken Isa --- Geys Jef --- Goldblatt David --- Golub Leon --- Gonzalez-Foerster Dominique --- Green Renée --- Grippo Victor --- Groupe Amos --- Haaning Jens --- Hatoum Mona --- Hirschhorn Thomas --- Höfer Candida --- Horsfield Craigie --- Huit Facettes --- Huyghe Pierre --- Igloolik Isuma Productions --- Ivekovic Sanja --- Jaar Alfredo --- Jonas Joan --- Julien Isaac --- Kanwar Amar --- Kawara On --- Kentridge William --- Van der Keuken Johan --- Kingelez Bodys Isek --- Kinmont Ben --- Kopystiansky Igor --- Kopystiansky Svetlana --- Kozaric Ivan --- Kuluncic Andreja --- Ligon Glenn --- Lum Ken --- Manders Mark --- Marcaccio Fabian --- McQueen Steve --- Meireles Cildo --- Mekas Jonas --- Messager Annette --- Miyamoto Ryuji --- Mofokeng Santu --- Multiplicity --- Muñoz Juan --- Neshat Shirin --- Orozco Gabriel --- Osifuye Olumuyiwa Olamide --- Ottinger Ulrike --- Watts Outtara --- Park Fiction --- Pernice Manfred --- Pettibon Raymond --- Piper Adrian --- Ponger Lisl --- Portabella Pere --- Raqs Media Collective --- Riera Alejandra --- Petrescu Doina --- Roth Dieter --- Salcedo Doris --- Samadian Seifollah --- Saussier Gilles --- kunst en politiek --- Sekula Allan --- Shonibare Yinka --- Siekmann Andreas --- Simparch --- Simpson Lorna --- Sivan Eyal --- Small David --- Tan Fiona --- Tayou Pascale Marthine --- Teno Jean-Marie --- Trinh T. Minh-Ha --- Tsunamii.Net --- Tuerlinckx Joëlle --- Tuymans Luc --- Urbonas Nomeda --- Urbonas Gediminas --- Wall Jeff --- Ward Nari --- Fudong Yang --- hedendaagse kunst --- Multidisciplinary organizations --- Contemporary [style of art] --- Art moderne --- Arts --- Ancelovici Gaston A --- prints [visual works] --- sculpture [visual works] --- installations [visual works] --- photography [process] --- video art --- performance art --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Höfer, Candida --- Riera, Alejandra --- Ataman, Kutlug --- Mekas, Jonas --- Geers, Kendell --- Shonibare, Yinka --- Eggleston, William --- Coleman, James --- Gaba, Meschac --- McQueen, Steve --- Tayou, Pascale Marthine --- Le Groupe Amos --- Friedman, Yona --- Adéagbo, Georges --- Agarwal, Ravi --- Tuymans, Luc --- Ancelovici, Gaston André --- Ashkin, Michael --- Bargmann, Julie --- Barrio, Arthur --- Bonk, Ecke --- Braila, Pavel --- Bruguera, Tania --- Camnitzer, Luis --- Deacon, Destiny --- Edefalk, Cecilia --- Ennadre, Touhami --- Feyzdjou, Chohreh --- Manders, Mark --- Gabellone, Giuseppe --- Garaicoa, Carlos --- Bourgeois, Louise --- Haaning, Jens --- Geys, Jef --- Julien, Isaac --- Kanwar, Amar --- Kinmont, Ben --- Kopystiansky, Igor --- Kulunčić, Andreja --- Levy, Stacy --- Akerman, Chantal --- Marcaccio, Fabián --- Masharawi, Rashid --- Miyamoto, Ryuji --- Osifuye, Muyiwa --- Petrescu, Doina --- Ponger, Lisl --- Portabella, Pere --- Raad, Walid --- Samadian, Seifollah --- Saussier, Gilles --- Siekmann, Andreas --- Sivan, Eyal --- Small, David --- Teno, Jean-Marie --- Kawara, On --- Tsunamii.net --- Urbonas, Nomeda --- Keuken, van der, Johan --- Roth, Dieter --- Goldblatt, David --- Mofokeng, Santu --- Ward, Nari --- Watts, Ouattara --- Yang Fudong --- Tuerlinckx, Joëlle --- Hatoum, Mona --- Pettibon, Raymond --- Brouwn, Stanley --- Wall, Jeff --- Jonas, Joan --- Douglas, Stan --- Kentridge, William --- Meireles, Cildo --- Salcedo, Doris --- Messager, Annette --- Bhimji, Zarina --- Eichhorn, Maria --- Green, Renée --- Hirschhorn, Thomas --- Kingelez, Bodys Isek --- Muñoz, Juan --- Tan, Fiona --- Ahtila, Eija-Liisa --- Bock, John --- Bruly Bouabré, Frédéric --- Pernice, Manfred --- Neshat, Shirin --- Orozco, Gabriel --- Huyghe, Pierre --- Armaly, Fareed --- Becher, Bernd und Hilla --- Darboven, Hanne --- Genzken, Isa --- Golub, Leon Albert --- Grippo, Victor --- Kožarić, Ivan --- Ligon, Glenn --- Trinh T. Minh-ha --- Ken Lum --- Evans, Cerith Wyn --- Gonzalez-Foerster, Dominique --- Jaar, Alfredo --- Simpson, Lorna --- Piper, Adrian --- Iveković, Sanja --- Sekula, Allan --- Ottinger, Ulrike --- Horsfield, Craigie --- Multiplicity [Milan] --- Raqs Media Collective [New Delhi] --- D.I.R.T. Studio --- Park Fiction [Hamburg] --- Le Groupe Amos [Kinshasa] --- paintings [visual works] --- anno 2000-2009