Thomas Hirschhorn Type: Culture City: BARCELONA Location: Museu d'Art Contemporani From 1/6/2001 to 24/9/2001 Tel: (34) 93 412 0810 The work of Thomas Hirschhorn: a brutal yet fair portrayal of humanity's enslavement to the values of the media and commerce. Thomas Hirschhorn considers mass communication a hypocritical and unhealthy consensual discourse, and he contrasts it with a raw, simplified recycling of information. Like a beggar or a homeless person, the young artist constructs his messages out of pieces of cardboard set with newspaper photographs. He annotates these collages with an overtly naive text as a denunciation of the incomprehensible violence of the modern world. Images of torture, war and homeless people are captioned with advertising slogans from capitalist industry. Concorde Hotels in BARCELONA : GRAN DERBY HOTEL HOTEL CLARIS DERBY HOTEL Back