Alfredo Jaar
| Type | Male |
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| URLs | Artist's page Wikipedia Institutions/museums |
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| Award | 2013 | Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas | Staat Chile | Santiago | |
| Honour | 2000 | MacArthur Foundation fellow | MacArthur Foundation | Chicago |
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| Group exhibition | 2016 | Witness | Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago | |
| Group exhibition | 2014 | Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today | Guggenheim Museum | New York |
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| Monography | 2007 | JRP|Ringier | Alfredo Jaar: The Politics of Images | Georges Didi-Huberman, Griselda Pollock, Jacques Rancière, Nicole Schweizer | 9783905770483 | Zürich | ||||||
| Monography | 2015 | Museum of Contemporary Art | Alfredo Jaar: Tonight No Poetry Will Serve | Nestor Canclini | 9527067057 | Kiasma | Patrik Nyberg, Jari-Pekka Vanhala |
Projects
, Ruanda
One of his best-known installations was part of a six-year project that culminated in The Silence of Nduwayezu, a presentation about the genocide in Rwanda in which twenty percent of the population perished.
Projects
New York, USA
One of his better-known works is This Is Not America (A Logo for America) (1987), a sequence of projections on a light board overlooking a U.S. Army recruitment station in Times Square. The projections included an outlined map of the United States with the words This Is Not America written across it, the same words written across an image of the U.S. flag, and finally the word America across a map of all the Americas—North, Central, and South.
Education
New York, USA
Studiert Film am Chilean-North American Institute of Culture und Architektur an der University of Chile. After receiving a degree in architecture, he moved to New York City in 1982.
Places of work / studios
New York, USA
Beginnt für SITE zu arbeiten. SITE is an architecture and environmental arts studio, internationally known for innovative buildings, public spaces, parks, interiors and product designs. Founded in New York City in 1970.
Places of residence
Santiago, Chile
Rückkehr nach Chile unter das Regime von Pinochet.
Martinique, Frankreich
Born
Santiago, Chile
Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar creates installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects that explore issues around humanitarian crises and the relationship between the First and Third Worlds. Probing the contemporary over-saturation of media images and the limitations of art in representing atrocities, Jaar draws attention to global power and exploitation. Perhaps his best-known work, This Is Not America (A Logo for America) (1987) consisted of a sequence of projections overlooking a U.S. army recruitment station in Times Square, including the outlined map of the U.S. with the words “This Is Not America” written across, and the word “America” superimposed over all the Americas—North, Central, and South. “There's this huge gap between reality and its possible representations. And that gap is impossible to close,” Jaar has said. “So as artists, we must try different strategies for representation.”
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(Kindness)of(Strangers) | 2016 | Alfredo Jaar | |
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A logo for America | 1987 | Alfredo Jaar | |
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Geography = War | 1991 | Alfredo Jaar | |
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Kultur = Kapital | 2016 | Alfredo Jaar | |