Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson read, "Holocaust Museum Cancels Sack Speech." The story below it, published in February, said the Museum had invited, then disinvited, a journalist named Sack who'd intended to speak of Jews who ran concentration camps at the end of World War II and beat, tortured and killed the German inmates: German men, women, children, babies...
This tradition continued last night in Emerson Hall, when the Friends of the Spartacus Youth Club invited Doris Kohn, a German socialist, to discuss her experiences fighting a neo-Nazi protest in Berlin...
...Meireles' use of specific materials and their symbolic associations allies him more closely with the German artist Joseph Beuys than with his American contemporaries. Although he clearly shows an interest in their theoretical concerns, his work depends on the viewer's physical experience of the actual work. For example, the show's most arresting installation, "Volatile," was conceived in 1980 but not executed until 1994, and I'm sure it didn't work on paper...
...proves, he has consistently engaged, and sometimes foreseen, the same theoretical issues and artistic strategies of his better-known international counterparts. His installations of room corners, whose walls and base boards seem to seep into the floors, play with spatial perception in a way similar to the work of German artist Blinky Palermo. Mysteriously prescient, his stamped "Insertion" slogans even anticipate Jenny Holzer's "Truisms," which would begin to appear on envelopes and T-shirts nearly 10 years after Meireles' last Coke bottle was recycled. Finally, the ICA's excellent show welcomes Cildo Meireles to the front of the theater...
...major cities throughtout Europe and the U.S. These photos, by far the most visually compelling and intellectually intriguing pieces in the exhibit, show paragraphs of original prose, printed on billboards that blend into the cityscape, even capturing people's candid reactions to the esoteric signs. A knowledge of German, French or other European languages would help the viewer because no translations accompany these photographs. But there are enough photos of billboards in New York and California that the English-speaking viewer can gather the general meaning and formula for all the others...