This is it – the ‚Il Quarto Stato‘ Montevideo Edition. The photo is part of our contribution for Democracia: 30 anos y despues and it is visible at the Espacio de Arte Contemporanéo with the support of Centro de Fotografia de Montevideo. Postcards of the image are available at EAC. More soon here.
A big Thank You to all those who did not dread the wind and the cold, another big Thank You to those who took the challenge to stand for the central figures in the painting: The teacher Susana Rodriguez de Almeida, the artist Martin Verges and his son and Lucia Caldes Acosta, cyclist and political…
„El Cuarto Estado Recreado“ – (Montevideo 2015) Un proyecto de los artistas Alex Meszmer y Reto Müller Presentado por „Democracia: 30 años y después…“ Los artistas suizos Alex Meszmer y Reto Müller visitan Montevideo para realizar una reconstrucción fotográfica del cuadro „Il Quarto Stato“ de Guiseppe Pelizza da Volpedo, pintado en 1901 y que representa…
Friday 24th of July – the last day of club désirer in Bar 7 Rayos in Montevideo. The Bar offered us a good basis to discuss, have a smoke or look at the collected quotes, ideas or objects in relation to democracy and beauty that we collected during the week. At 5pm Paula Delgado gave…
Yesterday our first visitor was Tommy. He told us that his grandparents have lived in Switzerland and he wrote a postcard for us. Juan Carlos had been working as a chauffeur in many countries all over the World and he said to us: Democracy in Uruguay is spectacular! Jorge Castrillón talked about the development of…
Yesterday had been a long day with a lot of visitors at club désirer at Bar 7 Rayos. The first visitors had been the people from Urbano, a cultural centre for homeless people in Montevideo. The centre offers workshops and activities every afternoon like art, theatre, video, literature and more. They were telling us about…
Yesterday evening in club désirer: Yamandú, 64, told us: „La democracia es lo principal“ – „Democracy is the essential!“ Leandro, being younger and having not experienced the military dictatorship, tells us about the crisis in 2002 and how it influenced his generation, his life and his family. He quoted us some lines from a song describing…
An evening with Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre and Clemente Padin discussing the aesthetics of democracy in Uruguay and beyond 1985-2015. More information about the evening to follow.
When Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre participated in the democratic art weeks in Pfyn in 2011 and 12, we already started to think about a new art project to cooperate between Uruguay and Switzerland. 2015 Uruguay celebrates 30 years of democracy that means as well 30 years since the end of the military dictatorship. Ana Laura Lopez…
Los esperamos de lunes 20 a viernes 24 (4-8pm) en Club Désirer – sede Bar 7 Rayos – para ayudar a los artistas suizos Alex Meszmer y Reto Mueller en su búsqueda de la belleza democrática. Aqui les dejamos los nombres de algunos invitados que vendrán a provocar conversaciones: Lunes 20, 17.30hs / Ana Laura Lopez…
Lunes 20 a Viernes 24 Julio 2015 16 a 20hs BAR 7 RAYOS, Miguelete esquina Arenal Grande En Busca de la Belleza Democrática Un proyecto de los artistas suizos Alex Meszmer y Reto Müller club désirer es un espacio temporal e itinerante inspirado en los clubes, tertulias y salones de antaño, en donde los concurrentes…
We got some answers for our question whether democracy is beautiful via Twitter (and hope there will be some more): @zeitgarten_ch DIREKTE Demokratie ist wunderschön! Mitbestimmung macht Menschen glücklicher und besser informiert: http://t.co/almBSrWgXv — Lukas Reimann (@lukasreimann) November 17, 2014 @zeitgarten_ch es kommt darauf an wie sie in welchem Rahmen gemalt wird. — Jacqueline…
The second letter was in our mailbox this morning – exciting! Thank you very much Mrs Quadranti for your contribution!
Today we got our first answer for our request to 111 Swiss politicians, where we can find beauty in democratic processes or whether democracy is beautiful. Unfortunately we can’t read the name – perhaps #followerpower will help us with that!
And is there beauty in democratic processes? are the two questions, we asked 111 Swiss politicians in a letter, waiting for answers now. A bit more than one week after we sent out the first letters, we are still waiting for the first ideas in our mailbox. What will our politicians tell us? or will…
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