Word: conceptua
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...German pavilion contains a single installation by the political- conceptua l artist Hans Haacke. In the past Haacke has done many a verbose indictment of capitalist culture, but this time he seems to have got his epigram down. The first thing you see is a wall with a blown-up image of Hitler visiting the 1934 Venice Biennale. The floor of the rest of the gallery has been torn up into a litter of marble debris, which clatters ominously as visitors stumble across it. On the wall behind, the single word: GERMANIA. A one-shot piece, but right on target...
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