Thomas Hirschhorn made the video «Tribute to Okwui Enwezor» in 2019 as a hommage to Okwui, following the idea of Gilles Deleuze's abécédaire.
Director
Thomas Hirschhorn made the video «Tribute to Okwui Enwezor» in 2019 as a hommage to Okwui, following the idea of Gilles Deleuze's abécédaire.
Himself
Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the few Swiss artists of world renown, often touches on social wounds with his provocative works. In 2013, Hirschhorn built a monument for Italian philosopher and communist Antonio Gramsci in a public housing project in the Bronx. The contentious artist collaborated with neighborhood residents whose everyday life is impacted by poverty, unemployment and crime. Conflicts and misunderstandings are bound to arise as Hirschhorn’s absolute devotion to art is confronted with the resident’s lack of prospects and fatalistic outlooks. The «Gramsci Monument» becomes a summer-long experiment where diverse worlds collide: blacks and whites, the art elite and street kids, party people and poets, politicians and philosophers. A nuanced film about art, politics and passion.
Director of Operations
En abril de 2004, y a partir de un acuerdo con el Centro Pompidou y el Fondo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Hirschhorn organizó una extraordinaria acción colectiva de desplazamiento simbólico y gestión cultural: el traslado de más de 20 obras de arte de 8 figuras capitales del siglo XX y la construcción de un museo en uno de los suburbios más marginados de París, la comuna de Aubervilliers.
