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Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Elegantia, installation view at the Triennale di Milano, 2017
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Elegantia, installation view at the Triennale di Milano, 2017
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Elegantia, installation view at the Triennale di Milano, 2017
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Elegantia, installation view at the Triennale di Milano, 2017
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Elegantia, installation view at the Triennale di Milano, 2017
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Elegantia, installation view at the Triennale di Milano, 2017
Seduced and terrified by the mechanical rules of society – psychology of domination and humiliation – and from the ruthlessness of the everyday, the artists bring to life parallel worlds through the obsessive compiling of catalogues and lists: people, objects, cars, animals, architectural elements and city corners. Figures and characters of fear and innocence, of depravation and lightness are presented on stage without any hierarchy, moral judgement or social interpretation. Flat and motionless, bidimensional and stereotyped, they inhabit an ideal and dystopian space, mute and defenseless witnesses of our world.
28 January – 19 March 2017
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Elegantia
curated by Francesco Garutti
Triennale di Milano
viale Alemagna 6, Milan
