Monday 10 November 2014

Blog 3 Catalogue - KAPITALISM

The Te Tuhi exhibition had presented Destroyed word by internationally renowned spanish artist Santiago Sierra. He is most famously known for his works of the late 1990s where he paid underprivileged people to undertake mundane or humiliating tasks.  This is a catalogue for the art exhibition Santiago Sierra's - Destroyed Word. 09 March 2013 - 07 July 2013. The images of the catalogue has been laid out in a sort of unfolding version. Where you unravel letter after letter, creating the meaning/word KAPTALISM. It holds 10 pages in the catalogue, does not contain that much information. It uses Digital letters on one side of the catalogue showing where the art work was made at, and on the other side displaying the artwork. Measurements of the catalogue Height 16cm, Width 9cm


(Throughout his practice, Sierra has investigated systems of social, political and economic power that assert their dominance through exploitation and marginalisation. )- http://www.tetuhi.org.nz/exhibitions/exhibitiondetails.php?id=127


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