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#3 Transforming of Symbols

The category of symbol and working with the symbol is elusive, a purely sophisticated way of categorization from the point of view of art history and art criticism. For that reason, the selection of authors is even more relative than with the previous themes. Moreover, while some of the artists we have selected have worked with symbol throughout their career, with others in some stages of their work we could speak rather of subjective documentary, conceptualism, minimalism, or even other things. Such is, however, the fate of categories of art-theory – they do not allow an exact definition of the set of works of art that they attempt to define.

#40 earthlings — Profiles

Nico Alexandroff, Robert Zhao Renhui, Susan Schuppli

The artistic practices of Nico Alexandroff, Robert Zhao Renhui and Susan Schuppli, where glacial sampling and analysis exist alongside the photographic, are presented together, where they have formed into something synthetic, something not yet clear but deeply promising in their capacity to perform multiple functions at once…

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#40 earthlings — Profiles

Naoya Hatakeyma

The traces of human intervention in the landscape, the extraction of raw materials and the development of our built environment are at the focus of a Japanese photographer celebrated for a series that shows spectacular explosions in limestone quarries…

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#40 earthlings — Profiles

Katarína Poliačiková

How can we relate to the history of Planet Earth through art? Katarína Poliačiková uses scientific knowledge and applies herself to research in her own practice, but what remains crucial for her is the personal perspective that provides facts with new meaning…

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