Archive for December 20, 2008

Narcisse blessé: autoportraits contemporains 1970-2000

Self-portraits from the past 30 years by some 150 artists make a case for the self as the dominant issue of contemporary art. The works deal with perceptions of self and identity, of humanity, gender, life and death, and with the self as artist, not just through a traditional focus on the face or body, but through rooms, places, clothes, actions and movements. Identity can be seen in fragments of the body, transformations or in relationships. Unmissable.