XIV Sculpture Biennial of Carrara - Present - Part 1

The theme of the XIV Sculpture Biennial of Carrara is the monument, or rather that radical process of de-monumentalisation which has freed sculpture from any celebratory, encomiastic function. The monument has been the emblem of power, the tool of mass homologation, but also the catalyst of patriotic values and an irreplaceable building-block in the construction of collective memory. It became a fundamental target of revolts and revolutions, and was then eliminated with the application of the ideals of democracy and freedom of our times.

However in the flexible, ever-changing scenario of today's society, in a turn-of-the-century atmosphere perhaps heralding the actual end of history as we know it, the old values and materials can sometimes be seen to re-emerge alongside the contemporary iconoclasm.

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• Post Monument
• Pesent
• Huma Bhabha
• Monica Bonvicini
• Marcelo Cidade
• Sam Durant
• Urs Fischer
• Daniel Knorr
• Gustav Metzger
• Kevin van Braak
• Terence Koh
• Rosella Biscotti
• Thomas Houseago
• Ohad Meromi
• Kristina Norman
• Gillian
• Wearing
• Antony Gormley
• Giorgio Andeotta Calò
• Rikrit Tiravanija
• Valentin Carron
• Paul McCarthy
• Santiago Sierra
• Carlos Bunga
• Liu Jianhua
• Maurizio Cattelan