Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar | |
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Santiago de Chile, Chile | |
Nationality | Chilean |
Known for | Conceptual art, Installation art |
Notable work | The Rwanda Project, The Skoghall Konsthall, Studies on Happiness[1] |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1985), National Prize for Plastic Arts (Chile) (2013), Hasselblad Award (2020) |
Website | www |
Alfredo Jaar (English:
He is the father of musician and composer Nicolas Jaar.
Early life
Jaar was born in 1956 in
Work
Jaar art is usually politically motivated, with strategies of representation of real events, the faces of
"There's this huge gap between reality and its possible representations. And that gap is impossible to close. So as artists, we must try different strategies for representation. [...] [A] process of identification is fundamental to create empathy, to create solidarity, to create intellectual involvement."[6]
Exhibitions
His work has been shown extensively around the world, notably in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), Seville (2006), and the Whitney Biennial (2022).
His work,
Important individual exhibitions include the
Jaar represented Chile at the 2013 Venice Biennale.[12]
One of his two solo exhibitions was shown in Hong Kong as part of the "Hong Kong's Migrant Domestic Workers Project" at Para Site in the exhibition "Afterwork." Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese "boat people" sought refuge in British Hong Kong after the Vietnam War ended in the late 1970s and continued until the early 1990s.[13]
In 2022, Jaar presented a major video installation titled 06.01.2020 at the Whitney Biennial, New York, commenting on the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 in Washington DC.[14]
His work can found in the permanent collections of art museums around the Americas, Europe, and Asia, such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami,[15] Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others.[16]
Awards
- 1985: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[17]
- 2000: MacArthur Fellow[citation needed]
- 2013: National Prize for Plastic Arts (Chile)[18]
- 2018: Hiroshima Art Prize[19]
- 2020: Hasselblad Award, Gothenburg, Sweden[20]
- 2022: Mercosur Konex Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina[21]
Family
Alfredo's son Nicolas Jaar is a musician and composer.
References
- ^ Valencia, Nicolas (October 7, 2020). "Alfredo Jaar: Sadness as an Uninhabitable Space". ArchDaily.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar. Lament of Images. 2002". Museum of Modern Art. 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
- ^ "ART21 - PBS Programs - PBS". PBS.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar in Conversation". Brooklyn Rail. April 2009.
- ^ "Life Magazine, April 19, 1968 | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ "The Silence of Nduwayezu presentation". YouTube.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar". Indianapolis Museum of Art.
- ^ "Revolution vs Revolution". Beirut Art Center. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar". alfredojaar.net.
- ^ "South London Gallery: Politics of the Image".
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar". ysp.org.uk.
- ^ on, Enrico. "VernissageTV Art TV - Alfredo Jaar: Venezia, Venezia / Pavilion of Chile at Venice Biennale 2013".
- ^ "Examining 'race' in Asia's migrant domestic workers population: "Afterwork" at Para Site, Hong Kong – ArtRadarJournal.com". Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ^ Cascone, Sarah (2022-04-13). "'This Work Is About the Abuse of Power': Alfredo Jaar on His Immersive Black Lives Matter Protest Piece at the Whitney Biennial". Artnet News. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "I Can't Go On. I'll Go On. • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar - Artists - Galerie Lelong & Co". www.galerielelong.com. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar, Premio Nacional de Artes: 'En Chile constaté la tiranía de las capitales'" [Alfredo Jaar, National Prize for Arts: 'In Chile, I Observed the Tyranny of the Capitals']. La Tercera (in Spanish). 17 July 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar Wins Eleventh Hiroshima Art Prize". Artforum. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar Wins 2020 Hasselblad Prize for Photography". Artforum. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ "Alfredo Jaar Konex Awards 2022". Konex Foundation. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
General references
- Alfredo Jaar, Lorenzo Fusi, TAC Collection, Exòrma Ed., Italian/English, May 2012
- Stefan Jonsson, 1989: Alfredo Jaar, They Loved It So Much, the Revolution, in A brief history of the masses: three revolutions, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, pp. 119 ff.
- Jaar, Alfredo, Mary J. Jacob, and Nancy Princenthal. Alfredo Jaar: The Fire This Time : Public Interventions 1979-2005. Milano: Charta, 2005. Print. Alfredo Jaar: the fire this time : public interventions 1979-2005
- Jaar, Alfredo, and Willie A. Drake. Alfredo Jaar: Geography=war. Richmond, VA: Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1991. Print. Alfredo Jaar: geography=war
- Jaar, Alfredo. Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project 1994 – 1998, Barcelona: Actar, 1998. Print.
- Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. ‘Lament of the Images: Alfredo Jaar and the Ethics of Representation’ in Aperture, Issue 181, pp 36–48