The Ashes of Gramsci
by Alfredo Jaar
Metal architectural model, light box with color transparency, wood base, linear actuator, dimensions variable.
© Alfredo Jaar, courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York.
Design and fabrication of the light box with the linear actuator by Mark Baumgartner Studio in collaboration with David Silverberg, New York City.
Link to pictures of the fabrication process In The Studio at the bottom of the page.
Materials: Aluminum, stainless steel hardware, electronic ballast, fluorescent light bulbs, Plexiglas, linear actuator.
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
I was invited to do a series of exhibitions in Italy in 2005. I wanted to make an homage to Antonio Gramsci and Pier Paolo Pasolini - two Italien thinkers whom I admire greatly. Gramsci was one of the first thinkers who really believed in the power of culture to affect social and political life. And Pasolini was an artist like no other - a thinker, a filmmaker, a poet, writer, and critic.
