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NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 l’holocauste et des droits de l’homme et qui, à l’occasion de NEWTOPIA, accueillera d’ailleurs une splendide installation de l’artiste lituanienne établie à Paris Esther Shalev-Gerz. L’exposition proposée et orchestrée par Katerina Gregos s’inscrit, d’une part, entièrement dans la politique culturelle de la Ville de Malines qui a pour ambition de se profiler comme un centre d’art contemporain et, d’autre part, en amont de l’ouverture de la caserne Dossin. Il est donc clair que dans les mois, voire les années à venir, le pavillon des droits de l’homme flottera au-dessus de la ville. PUBLICATION L’ouvrage édité par Katerina Gregos et Elena Sorokina à l’occasion de cette exposition est publié par Ludion et mis en page par BaseDesign, Bruxelles. Cet ouvrage de 256 pages, doté d’une couverture rigide, est disponible en néerlandais et en anglais. ISBN 9789461300751 / Prix : 27,90 ! Le lecteur y découvrira: 1. Essays Une série d’essais de la plume d‘Ariella Azoulay, Katerina Gregos, Lina Khatib, Keenan Malik, Samuel Moyn, Elena Sorokina et Raoul Vaneigem, ainsi qu’une interview exclusive de Stéphane Hessel. 2. ‘Human Rights Heroes’ Un florilège de brefs textes rédigés par des défenseurs des droits de l’homme et activistes célèbres tels que Liu Xiaobo, Anna Politkovskaya, Shirin Ebadi, Asmaa Mahfouz et Aung San Suu Kyi. 3. Artists’ Section Enfin des photos des œuvres des 70 artistes participant à l’exposition, accompagnées d’une notice explicative et d‘une courte biographie. Malines, le 31 août 2012 International Media Relations: Daniela Goldmann International Media Relations Goldmann Public Relations Zimmerstraße 11 10969 Berlin servicebln@goldmannpr.de T: +49 (0) 30 259 357 0 F: +49 (0) 30 259 357 29 www.facebook.com/GoldmannPublicRelations twitter.com/GoldmannPR Press contact Belgium / The Netherlands Gerrie Soetart Populierstraat 9 Rue du Peuplier 1000 Brussels T: +32 (0) 475 47 98 69 F: +32 (0) 2 219 30 27 gerrie.soetaert@skynet.be Écoutez le chanson charité pour l'Economie européenne „We Need You Now (more than ever)“ par le collectif danois d'art WOOLOO pour NEWTOPIA! www.NEWTOPIAblog.com/songrelease-wooloo/ Pour plus d’information, veuillez consulter www.NEWTOPIA.be / www.facebook.com/NEWTOPIA2012 / www.NEWTOPIABLOG.com 4
NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 1. Press Release NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Exhibition Opening in Mechelen (Belgium) August 31 st , 2012 NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights is a major international contemporary art exhibition dedicated to human rights, exploring how contemporary artistic practice negotiates the subject in all its difficulty and complexity. The exhibition builds on the long relationship between art and human rights. NEWTOPIA is curated by the Brussels-based international curator Katerina Gregos and will be on view from September 1 st until December 10 th , 2012. Tracing artistic responses to human rights issues, the exhibition charts the development of the human rights movement and its evolving discourse since the post-war era, paying particular attention to the emergence of new human rights discourses and the ‘rise of human rights’ since the 1970s, and looks at their current state. THE EXHIBITION The exhibition contains work by over 70 international artists of different generations working in diverse media and examines a rich variety of artistic responses in relation to the basic tenets of human rights, adopting an encyclopedic approach to the subject. NEWTOPIA is divided into four distinct thematic chapters and features five solo presentations, including two new major commissions for public space, as well as several new works for the exhibition. There are young, emerging artists such as Ninar Esber (Lebanon), Diango Hernández (Cuba), Ganzeer (Egypt), Marina Naprushkina (Belarus), Kader Attia (France), as well as historical reference points (Hans Haacke, Mona Hatoum, Leon Golub, David Goldblatt, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol). Many of the artists come from countries and geographies where human rights have been, or are, a particularly pressing issue such as Olga Chernysheva (Russia), Ali Ferzat (Syria), Taysir Batniji (Palestine), Khaled Jarrar (Palestine), Wafa Hourani (Palestine), Nikita Kadan (Ukraine), Hayv Kahraman (Iraq), Boniface Mwangi (Kenya), Sun Xun (China), Zhou Zixi (China). Half of the artists come from non-western countries. In addition, the exhibition aims to re-position a few major but unjustifiably marginalized figures such as the Belgian artist Wilchar (1910- 2005), one of the most original, politically outspoken, and uncompromising artists of his generation. NEWTOPIA is conceived as an exhibition parcours through the UNESCO World Heritage City Mechelen. NEWTOPIA negotiates the numerous complex aspects of human rights – civil and political rights; social, economic and cultural rights; the right to sustainable development, to peace and to a healthy environment – while emphasizing the indivisible, interrelated and interdependent nature of these 1 International Media Relations: Goldmann Public Relations Daniela Goldmann Anna Bernhardt Zimmerstraße 11 10969 Berlin Deutschland T: +49 (0) 30 259 357 0 F: +49 (0) 30 259 357 29 servicebln@goldmannpr.de Press contact Belgium / The Netherlands Gerrie Soetart Populierstraat 9 Rue du Peuplier 1000 Brussels T: +32 (0) 475 47 98 69 F: +32 (0) 2 219 30 27 gerrie.soetaert@skynet.be
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