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Alfredo Jaar (English: /dʒɑːr/;[1] Spanish: [ˈɟʝaɾ]; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war—the best known perhaps being the 6-year-long The Rwanda Project about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He has also made numerous public intervention works, like The Skoghall Konsthall one-day paper museum in Sweden, an early electronic billboard intervention A Logo For America, and The Cloud, a performance project on both sides of the Mexico-USA border. He has been featured on Art:21.[2] He won the Hasselblad Award for 2020.

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Alfredo Jaar
Jaar in 2009
Born	1956 (age 65–66) Santiago de Chile, Chile
Nationality	Chilean
Known for	Conceptual art, Installation art
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1985), National Prize for Plastic Arts (Chile) (2013), Hasselblad Award (2020)
Website	www.alfredojaar.net

He is the father of musician and composer Nicolas Jaar.

Early life

Jaar was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile. From age 5 to 16, he lived in Martinique before moving back to Chile.[3] In 1982, he moved permanently to New York City.[4]

Work

Jaar art is usually politically motivated, with strategies of representation of real events, the faces of war or the globalized world, and sometimes with a certain level of viewer participation (in the case of many public interventions and performances).

"There's this huge gap between reality and its possible representations. And that gap is impossible to close. So as artists, we must try different strategies for representation. [...] [A] process of identification is fundamental to create empathy, to create solidarity, to create intellectual involvement."[5]

Exhibitions

His work has been shown extensively around the world, notably in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), Seville (2006), and the Whitney Biennial (2022).

His work, Park of the Laments was part of the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres which opened in 2010 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.[6] For the "Revolution vs Revolution" exhibition held at the Beirut Art Center, he produced a new version of his photographic project 1968.[7]

Important individual exhibitions include the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel Gallery, London (1992); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2005); Fundación Telefónica, Santiago (2006); Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); the South London Gallery in 2008.;[8][9] and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield UK (2018).[10]

Jaar represented Chile at the 2013 Venice Biennale.[11]

One of his two solo exhibitions was shown in Hong Kong as part of the "Hong Kong's Migrant Domestic Workers Project" at Para Site in the exhibition "Afterwork." Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese "boat people" sought refuge in British Hong Kong after the Vietnam War ended in the late 1970s and continued until the early 1990s. [12]

Awards

Jaar has been the recipient of many Honorary Doctorates, including the University of Wolverhampton, UK, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, USA, The New School, New York, USA, SUNY (State University of New York), USA, IDSVA (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts), New York, USA, Accademia di Belle Arti, Macerata, Italy, and Universidad de Talca, Chile.^{[citation needed]}

• 1985: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[13]
• 2000: MacArthur Fellow^{[citation needed]}
• 2013: National Prize for Plastic Arts (Chile)[14]
• 2018: Hiroshima Art Prize[15]
• 2020: Hasselblad Award, Gothenburg, Sweden[16]
• 2022: Mercosur Konex Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina[17]

Family

Alfredo's son Nicolas Jaar is a musician and composer.

References

General references

• Alfredo Jaar, Lorenzo Fusi, TAC Collection, Exòrma Ed., Italian/English, May 2012
• Stefan Jonsson, 1989: Alfredo Jaar, They Loved It So Much, the Revolution, in A brief history of the masses: three revolutions, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, pp. 119 ff.
• Jaar, Alfredo, Mary J. Jacob, and Nancy Princenthal. Alfredo Jaar: The Fire This Time : Public Interventions 1979-2005. Milano: Charta, 2005. Print. Alfredo Jaar: the fire this time : public interventions 1979-2005
• Jaar, Alfredo, and Willie A. Drake. Alfredo Jaar: Geography=war. Richmond, VA: Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1991. Print. Alfredo Jaar: geography=war
• Jaar, Alfredo. Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project 1994 – 1998, Barcelona: Actar, 1998. Print.
• Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. ‘Lament of the Images: Alfredo Jaar and the Ethics of Representation’ in Aperture, Issue 181, pp 36–48

External links

• Official website
• A Logo For America, early electronic billboard intervention, documentation on YouTube
• The Skoghall Konsthall documentation on YouTube
• The Silence of Nduwayezu, part of the Rwanda Project, documentation and artist statement on YouTube

На других языках

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[de] Alfredo Jaar

Alfredo Jaar (* 1956 in Santiago de Chile) ist ein Künstler aus Chile. Er lebt und arbeitet in New York. Seine meistens installativen Arbeiten nehmen politische Themen von Einwanderung bis zum Völkermord in Ruanda auf, wobei er auch die Medien und seine eigene Position als Bildproduzent analysiert. Jaar stellte auf zahlreichen internationalen Ausstellungen aus, so auf der documenta 8 und Documenta11 in Kassel und 1986 und 2007 auf der Biennale in Venedig.

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- [en] Alfredo Jaar

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[ru] Джаар, Альфредо

Альфредо Джаар (Alfredo Jaar; род. 5 февраля[источник не указан 2619 дней] 1956, Сантьяго-де-Чили) — современный американский художник, архитектор и режиссёр чилийского происхождения (Джаар эмигрировал из Чили в 1981, в разгар военной диктатуры Пиночета). В основном известен благодаря инсталляциям, часто включающими фотографии и затрагивающими социально-политические вопросы.

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