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Main Themes, Keywords

art and politics, globalization, power of images, power of media, mass media, nation-states, Latin American and African politics, global diaspora, genocide, revolution, issues of race and class, social justice, cultural supremacy, Africa, critique of representations, postcolonial history

Alfredo Jaar, Manu (2020)

”I have always believed in the healing power of music. When I returned from Rwanda after witnessing the horrific genocide that left a million people dead in the face of the criminal indifference of the so-called “world community”, it was music that saved me. Now I find myself in New York, witnessing another tragedy of incalculable proportions. This modest homage to Manu Dibango, one of the greatest musicians of our times, is an attempt to heal, again, with music, in these dark times. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”

– Alfredo Jaar, April 2020

Related Works in The New School Art Collection

Alfredo Jaar, Geography=War, 1990. 

The New School Art Collection 

Alfredo Jaar, Searching for Gramsci, from Exit Art portfolio “Six by Four” 2004. 

The New School Art Collection

Alfredo Jaar & Dayanita Singh, Untitled, (from the Artists Support www.witness.org Project), 2006. 

The New School Art Collection

In the News

“Alfredo Jaar’s ‘Searching for Africa in LIFE’ Unveiled at The New School,” press release by The New School, December 4, 2014

“Site-specific commissions by Glenn Ligon, Alfredo Jaar, and Rita McBride in the SOM-designed University Center,” announcement by Arts&Education, December 9, 2015

Selected Readings

The artist’s website

Nyberg, Patrik. “From Repetition to Duration – On the Silence of Nduwayezu and the Political Aesthetics of Alfredo Jaar.” In Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, 235- 242. Helsinki: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, 2014.

Pollock, Griselda. “Not Forgetting Africa.” In Alfredo Jaar: La Politique des Images, edited by Nicole Schweizer, 112-135. Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2007.

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Alfredo Jaar

Alfredo Jaar, Geography=War, 1990. 

The New School Art Collection 

Alfredo Jaar, Searching for Gramsci, from Exit Art portfolio “Six by Four” 2004. 

The New School Art Collection

Alfredo Jaar & Dayanita Singh, Untitled, (from the Artists Support www.witness.org Project), 2006. 

The New School Art Collection
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Works

  • Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street
  • Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street
  • University Center 63 Fifth Avenue

Thomas Hart Benton
America Today, 1930–31

José Clemente Orozco
Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood
(The New School Mural Cycle), 1930-1931

Camilo Egas
Ecuadorian Festival, 1932

Gonzalo Fonseca
Untitled, 1961

Martin Puryear and Michael Van Valkenburgh, Vera List Courtyard, 1997

Dave Muller
Interpolations and Extrapolations, 2002-2003
Extensions (Interpolations and Extrapolations), 2008

Sol LeWitt
Wall Drawing #1073, Bars of Color (New School), 2003

Kara Walker
Event Horizon, 2005

Brian Tolle
Threshold, 2006

Rita McBride
Bells and Whistles, 2009–2014

Alfredo Jaar
Searching for Africa in LIFE, 1996/2014

Glenn Ligon
For Comrades and Lovers, 2015

Agnes Denes
Pascal’s Perfect Probability Pyramid & the People Paradox – The Predicament (PPPPPPP), 1980/2016

Andrea Geyer
Anemoi, 2019–2020

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