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"Some like it new, modern, stylish, while others like it old, classic, traditional or recycled. A thorough cleaning is all a dusty and timeworn painting needs to shine in its original brigthness, thus conveying the illusion of seeing it "at the moment it was conceived". The same is true for buildings: a newly restored and sandblasted facade gives the impression of rediscovering it with the very eyes of those who built it. However, whenever new buildings are erected, it often appears that the architect mistakes function for useless technological and aesthetic elements. This holds true in the world of art, where the dominant and devastating avant-garde hesitates between past esthetics and postmodern attempts. Fascinated by the facade academism and the ideology of the superficial, it continuously ignores the social reality, its adventures, its risks and its upheavals." Jacques Charlier (February 1997) NEDKO SOLAKOV
Text: This was supposed to be a very wise and relatively profound thought in a circle that was planed to appear in my head in the most natural way as soon as I would have started writing it on this very ceiling, but it seems that this beautiful idea doesn't really work. Sorry. MAURIZIO NANNUCCI
Collection Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg SEAMUS FARRELL
FLORENT MORELLET
SAM SAMORE
STINA FISCH
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