Jan Fabre at the Louvre

Context determines meaning. When artworks are placed in unusual situations and combined in unexpected ways, new patterns emerge from the juxtaposition. Contrasts of type, size, shape, material, composition, motif, texture, color, content, and meaning restructure information and introduce new dialogues.

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Vincenzo Vela: The Politics of the Figure

Every day thousands of people pass by one of the most historically and aesthetically significant monuments of 19th-century sculpture without any knowledge of its existence. Even among art-interested people, few if any have heard of Vincenzo Vela, the artist responsible for Victims of Labor, this curiously invisible monument, which stands at the southern entrance to

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