'I remember that censorship was at its height, and worse than that, self-censorship, because people were scared […]. I wanted to play with that: what could be said, how far you could take it… So then I decided on the program of seven interventions and got to work…' (Alfredo Jaar)
At the booth at this year’s ARCOmadrid, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents an installation of early works by Alfredo Jaar dealing with the artist’s birthplace, Chile. From the mid-1970s throughout the 1980s, Jaar created a series of works and interventions that addressed the aftermath of the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, which marked the beginning of Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship.
Galerie Thomas Schulte represents these artists: