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+ Cecilia Brunson

Alfredo Jaar: 50 Years Later marks the time passed since General Augusto Pinochet’s coup over Chilean President Salvador Allende’s democratic government on 11 September 1973. It is against the backdrop of this, one of the harshest military dictatorships in the southern cone, that Jaar produced some of his most poignant work, including his iconic project Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness 1979-1981). Continue reading Alfredo Jaar

+ art|basel

On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down above Kigali, Rwanda. Their deaths sparked widespread massacres that lasted 100 days. In face of the unconscionable indifference of the international community, 1 million people were killed, 4 million were displaced. Alfredo Jaar visited Rwanda in August 1994 and dedicated six years of work to the subject. Continue reading Alfredo Jaar