When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they’re decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
Hans Haacke Quotes
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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| Birth: | 12th August, 1936 |
| Nationality: | American, German |
| Profession: | Artist, Professor |
About
Hans Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He is a German-American artist. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. From 1961 to 1962 he studied on a Fulbright grant at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. From 1967 to 2002 he was a professor at the Cooper Union in New York City. He currently lives and works in New York.
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