De-Nigration

2009, Two framed landscape A1 posters, 84 x 59.4 cm, black paint.

It is a ritual, at the arrival at the White House, every president of the United of America – and especially their wife – has to make a selection of artworks to be hung in the building.

It is a ritual, after all selection of artworks, political analysts and art critics can’t prevent themselves but comment this choice, in a drive where all artists / artworks become subsumed with a quite literal political purpose.

for this work i wanted to rely on an artist for whom political conscience and aesthetics were intrinsequely bound: Otto Neurath. Borrowing his universal vosual language he coined ISOTYPE, i juxtapose the decenal census of the different races of the american population on one side and the labelisation of the artists present in the White House from art reviews / papers.

Research material