Act I: Beautiful from Every Point of View
2009–2010 Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art Exhibition
© Bob Goedewaagen
Oct 10, 2009 to Jan 10, 2010
The title of Act I: Beautiful from Every Point of View derives from Horace’s famous aphorism of the first century BCE, “nothing is beautiful from every point of view.” Not so long ago, under a regime of the imagination that took Truth and Beauty to be inseparable, this statement would have seemed incongruous. Today, however, Horace’s sentence is little more than a platitude, increasingly deployed in a rhetoric in which any point of view, and any action, can find its justification merely in its right to exist.
This first Act brings together a selection of works that refuse to assert an immediate, self-evident point of view on the subjects they represent. The works range from poignant simulations of the capitalist sublime, to humorous commentaries on the relationship between struggle and power, aiming at the gray space that we inhabit between images and power.
Morality
The exhibition is part of the year-long leitmotiv Morality.
Morality incorporates a changing constellation of five exhibitions, a discursive web platform, film program, performance cycle, symposium and book.
Curators: Juan A. Gaitán, Nicolaus Schafhausen, assisted by Amira Gad
Artists: Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Marko Lulić, Kris Martin, Josephine Meckseper, Sarah Morris, Ron Terada, Tobias Zielony, Artur Żmijewski
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