Jeffrey Deitch - Post Human - FAE 1992
Post Human brought together the work of young artists focusing on technological advancement, social and aesthetic pluralism, and new frontiers in identity.
Many of the most interesting younger artists are dealing with the new conceptions of the body and the new definitions of self that the vanguard of our society is also dealing with. They are exploring through their art the same questioning of traditional notions of gender, sexuality, and self-identity that is taking place in the world at large.
Much of the new figurative to and descriptive of the “real” world, but it cannot in fact be called realistic in the conventional sense. That is because so much of the “real” world that they are reacting to has in fact become artificial. With the concept of the real disintegrating through an acceptance of the multiplicity of reality models and through the embrace of artificiality, Realism as we used to know it may no longer be possible. This new figurative art may actually mark the end of Realism rather than its revival.
— Jeffrey Deitch
Multiple Venues
FAE, Musée D'art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne; Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli/Turin: Deste Foundation, House of Cyprus, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Participating artists: Dennis Adams, Janine Antoni, John M Armleder, Stephan Balkenhol, Matthew Barney, Ashley Bickerton, Taro Chiezo, Clegg & Guttmann, Wim Delvoye, Suzan Etkin, Fischli / Weiss, Slyvie Fleury, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Damien Hirst, Martin Honert, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, George Lappas, Annette Lemieux, Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy, Yasumasa Morimura, Kodai Nakahara, Cady Noland, Daniel Oates, Pruitt & Early, Charles Ray, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherma, Kiki Smith, Pia Stadtbäumer, Meyer Vaisman, Jeff Wall
144p - EN - 28x22cm - softcover - very good condition