Museu Coleccao Berardo in Lisbon Opens PHotoEspaña 2011 with a Show by Alfredo Jaar

LISBON.- The exhibition by Alfredo Jarr was presented in a press conference at Museu Colecção Berardo at Lisbon. The exhibition is under the Official Section of PHotoEspaña 2011 Interfaces, Portraiture and Communication. A Hundred Times Nguyen, focused in the girl Nguyen whom the artist met at a refugee camp in Hong Kong, is the protagonist of an installation in which the image of her face is repeated over and over again. The work purports to reflect on the distant effect [...]

New Multichannel Video Installation by Alfredo Jaar on View at University of Connecticut

STORRS, CT.- On view from March 24 to April 22, the Contemporary Art Galleries at the University of Connecticut will present a new multichannel video installation titled “We wish to inform you that we didn’t know” by artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar. Alfredo Jaar created The Rwanda Project, 1994-2000 as a response to the criminal indifference of the world community in the face of a genocide that claimed one million lives. This project lasted six years and included 25 [...]